Susanna Grant is a garden designer and co-director of Care, Not Capital, with the irrepressible John Little (we wrote about him here). With help from “lots of excellent…
Read more Before and After: From Yard to Garden, London Edition – GardenistaWhen Sarah Pajwani and her family moved into their house near Maidenhead (an hour from London) in 2011, it was surrounded by an “overgrown field.” Having created a…
Read more Magic in Maidenhead: An English Garden That Glows in the Winter – GardenistaMoving perennials or shrubs once they’re in situ can be daunting for a novice gardener. But when you are starting a garden or reinventing one, it’s almost impossible…
Read more Secrets of an English Head Gardener: How to Transplant Shrubs and Perennials – GardenistaAll week, we’re revisiting the most popular stories of 2025, including this one from March. Anyone who knows British garden designer Jo Thompson’s work will not be surprised…
Read more Jo Thompson’s ‘The New Romantic Garden’: Design Ideas to Steal From Her New BookJake Hobson is a master pruner. He’s written two books on pruning: Niwaki: Pruning, Training, and Shaping Trees the Japanese Way and The Art of Creative Pruning: Inventive…
Read more Jake Hobson’s Garden: A Tour of the Niwaki Founder’s Mini-Forest BackyardLet us count the many reasons we love Butter Wakefield, the Maryland-born, London-based garden designer who has won numerous prestigious awards for her exuberant projects (twice at the…
Read more Butter Wakefield: An Interview with the London Garden DesignerAll week, we’re republishing some of our favorite Garden Visits that have a personal connection to our writers. No public gardens here, no vast estates, no professionally designed…
Read more Landscaping on a Budget: 10 Ways I Saved Money on My Garden Remodel – Gardenista“It is lucky perhaps that Bloomsbury has a pleasant reverberating sound, suggesting old-fashioned gardens and out-of-the-way walks and squares; otherwise how could one bear it?” It is apparent…
Read more ‘Gardening Bohemia’: A Fascinating New Exhibit on the Bloomsbury Women at the Garden MuseumA career in art direction is a useful grounding for anybody wishing to go into garden design. Sheila Jack’s career shift was not so much a break as…
Read more Designer Visit: Sheila Jack’s White Garden in West London – GardenistaIt is the straight species, though, that hold the most promise. “In my opinion, species tulips are the future, and an exciting one,” says Polly. They can be…
Read more Perennial Tulips: Polly Nicholson on How to Grow Native SpeciesIn the first column of my series on creating a garden from scratch, I posed some starting points to think about before you make any radical changes to…
Read more A Garden from Scratch: How to Create a Strong FoundationThe phrase “English garden” may conjure a particular image in your mind: perhaps the neatly clipped hedges and expansive lawns of a country estate or maybe an informal…
Read more The English Gardener’s Garden, Phaidon’s Gorgeous New Book
