We’ve been noticing lately that a talent for stonework is more than an extra feather in the cap for garden designers. Wilder planting can stand or fall on…
Read more Ask the Expert: Tom Eaglestone on How to Reuse Preexisting Materials in Your Garden – GardenistaSusanna 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 – GardenistaIf you’re upgrading an existing landscape, you can reuse pavers from an old path or patio to create your new outdoor space. 7. Build a patio in stages.…
Read more 10 Ways to Save Money on a New Patio – GardenistaIn fall the Instagram feeds of many of our favorite gardeners, quite understandably, start to wither or move indoors. Not so that of Dutch garden designer Frank Heijligers. Indeed,…
Read more Expert Advice: 9 Tips for a Moody Winter Garden – 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 – GardenistaAs gardens fade and the days darken, it’s tempting to forget about what’s going on outdoors until early spring when everything jolts back into life. But this is…
Read more The Beauty of Decay: 10 Perennials to Add Structure to a Winter Garden – GardenistaIn the first decade of America’s post-war boom, a million and a half new houses were built, creating vast tracts of suburbia and giving young families their first…
Read more Before & After: A 1940s-Suburban House Grows Up Gracefully in Mill Valley, CA – GardenistaWhen Jane Orvis and Steve Hanson bought their 1950s house in Seward Park, Seattle, they kept the original pink-tiled bathroom. But what about the mid-century shrubbery, arranged around…
Read more Before & After: Should It Stay or Should It Go? In Praise of Inherited Plants (And Soil, And Concrete) – GardenistaWe’ve been writing about Tama Matsuoka Wong for more than a decade—first in 2013 when we joined her for a foraging (and eating) adventure on her 28-acre property…
Read more Tama Matsuoka Wong: An Interview with the Forager ExtraordinaireI’ve always known in theory that if you plant spring-flowering bulbs (such as tulips, daffodils, crocuses, and alliums) you can fill your garden with successive waves of color…
Read more How and When to Plant Spring-Flowering Bulbs: A Beginner’s GuideMy clients are often in love with gravel, or at least with the idea of gravel. But as a landscape designer, I have a love-hate relationship with the…
Read more 10 Things Your Landscape Designer Wishes You Knew About Gravel (But Is Too Polite to Tell You) – GardenistaIf you’re lucky enough to have a garden in a big city, you learn to accept the fact that while you’re out there, you’re in full view of…
Read more Privacy Landscaping: The Best Plants to Use to Enclose Your Outdoor SpaceAll 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“There isn’t another site like this available anywhere near Portland, Maine,” said Russell Tyson of Whitten Architects, “and it’s the site that makes this house so unique.” He’s describing a jaw-dropping…
Read more Landscape Visit: The Ultimate Indoor-Outdoor House on 36 Acres in Coastal Maine – GardenistaHindsight is a wonderful thing: After you’ve planted, say, a tree in the wrong spot, everything becomes clearer and more crystallized—including where you should have planted it. Making…
Read more A Garden from Scratch: 8 Mistakes I Made as a Beginner GardenerToo often pathway gaps are neglected and become a home for weeds. But where some may see awkward spaces between stepping stones, I see potential. Plants between pavers can soften hard lines,…
Read more Hardscaping 101: Ground Covers to Plant Between Pavers – GardenistaA 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 – GardenistaAfter all the planning for the garden layout is done, being able to buy (or grow) your plants feels like something of a victory, the fun bit when…
Read more A Garden from Scratch: How to Choose the Plants and Put Them TogetherIt’s always a good idea to give the gift of courtesy to your neighbors. Even if they’re not the type to fly into a yard rage, they’ll still…
Read more The Art of Garden Etiquette: 10 Ways to Show Respect to Neighbors – GardenistaYou’d think choosing plants was easy enough—just find the ones you like, right? And for single specimens in a pot or a monoculture of, say. roses or hydrangeas,…
Read more Garden from Scratch: How to Choose the Type of Plants You Need in Your Landscape
