Nature abhors a monoculture, but not necessarily a monochrome culture. Against a leafy green backdrop, a single color stands out dramatically—particularly when that hue is white. Here are…
Read more All-White Gardens: 15 Favorite Examples of White-on-White LandscapesAll 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 Secret Garden: At Home with Marnie on Cape Cod – GardenistaIn general, flowers are probably less important than form. Some have a fleeting season, perhaps blooming just once before doing nothing for the remaining eleven months of the…
Read more The Best Low-Maintenance Flowers for Your Garden: 8 Sun-Loving FavoritesWe’ve interviewed landscape designer Wambui Ippolito before (read our Q&A with her here), and we were so enamored of her that we decided to have her take our…
Read more Wambui Ippolito: An Interview with the Landscape DesignerThere are two main reasons that you might consider planting a pollinator garden in pots instead of in the ground: Either you don’t have a garden bed—or you’ve…
Read more Pollinator Container Gardens: How to Plant a Pot that Will Attract Beneficial InsectsNew Yorkers who discover Rockaway Beach, the sandy peninsula at the end of the A train, tend to fall in love. Alexandria Donati and Jonathan Chesley, the husband…
Read more Alexandria Donati and Jonathan Chesley’s Rockaway Beach GardenThis week, as the Chelsea Flower Show goes viral on every media outlet, we take a look at Tom Stuart-Smith, the comeback—after an absence of 14 years. A …
Read more Tom Stuart Smith’s Garden at the 2024 Chelsea Flower Show
