You may not think of Frida Kahlo as a typical gardener - can you imagine her in rubber boots? - but together with her beloved Diego she turned the garden of their ‘Casa Azul’ into a luscious paradise of locally sourced flora. And then there are her paintings, filled with green beings, erotic flowers and voluptuous bodies, showing an unbridled sensuality that is both steamy and earthy. Often, her own body becomes her private Eden; a place where feminine principles rule. “The green miracle of the landscape of my body becomes the whole of nature,” she wrote in a passionate love letter to Diego. One of my favorite paintings by Frida is ‘The Roots’ (1943): an invitation to lay down in the dirt with her and watch the vines envelop and frame her body in an almost erotic way. Welcome to Frida’s garden of earthly delights...