It wasn’t a field when we bought the house in Massachusetts, but that’s what it ended up being. At first, there were massive junipers that lined the circular…
Read more Lessons Learned: Gardening My Rewilded Front Yard – GardenistaCara Davies remembers the day the city inspector came to take a final look at her garden before signing off on the building permit: “He came around the…
Read more ‘A Little Bit of Paradise’: A Small Backyard in Napa Valley Bursting with Beauty and Patina – Gardenista“I am a gardener, garden designer, and writer. My consultancy, LINDA, designs and plants biodiverse urban gardens that are plant-focused with an emphasis on re-using existing materials where…
Read more Quick Takes With: Susanna Grant – GardenistaI came to gardening, as many of us do, not necessarily out of a love of the natural world but because of a fascination with flowers. In the…
Read more A Love Letter to Sanguisorbas – GardenistaAs if gardening weren’t challenging enough, sometimes deer take up residence in your garden and decide to host a dinner party. There is nothing worse than planting a…
Read more Deer-Resistant Evergreen Shrubs: 5 Favorites to PlantAfter a surprise snow day reschedule, Metro Hort Group hosted its 30th Plant-O-Rama last Thursday morning at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Every year, hundreds of horticultural professionals descend…
Read more Plant-O-Rama Celebrates 30 Years: Here Are 7 Ideas We Took Away from the Symposium – 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 – GardenistaFavorite hardscaping material: Natural local materials like nearby rocks, stone, gravel. Less carbon footprint transporting materials that are likely nearby. I love different textures used together. More plants,…
Read more Quick Takes With: Julie Weiss – GardenistaWith the start of the new year, our minds are a-swirl with ideas for what we’ll do in our gardens come spring. For inspiration, we asked garden and…
Read more Resolutions Roundup: Garden Pros Share the 10 Ways They’re Changing Their Landscapes in 2026 – 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 BookAll week, we’re revisiting the most popular stories of 2025, including this one from May. A transportive garden can owe as much to a magical setting as to…
Read more Garden Designers Harry and David Rich’s Cottage Garden in Wales Is Like a FairytalePiet Oudolf designed a set of long-handled hand tools, a spade and a fork. They’re perfect for when you’re working on your knees, but need more leverage than…
Read more Quick Takes With: Richard Hayden – 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 – GardenistaJake 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 BackyardCut flower garden. This is a sub-category of garden that, if you had asked me about three years ago, I wouldn’t have even understood, let alone imagined someday…
Read more Lessons Learned: The Misadventures of a Former City Slicker and Her Cut Flower Garden – GardenistaThe depaving movement has become something of a national sport in the Netherlands, with municipalities competing to see who can remove the most paving from their town each…
Read more Lu La Studio Turns a Parking Lot Into a Multi-functional Rewilded Garden in Somerville, MAThis is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to toxic-free, ecological gardening, on how you can be more sustainable in your landscapes at home. …
Read more Cues to Care: How to Design Ecological Gardens that Look Neat and TidyA steeply pitched lot can present a challenge for even the most seasoned garden designer. Many resort to terracing the slope to create flat ground to work within,…
Read more What to Plant on a Hill or Slope: The Experts Share Design and Gardening TipsRecently, we published a story on the trend toward more naturalistic-looking shrubs in garden design, but Michael P. Gibson’s Seussian topiary art may singlehandedly stem that tide. Michael…
Read more Quick Takes With: Michael P. Gibson – GardenistaWhen Remodelista founder Julie Carlson attended a benefit dinner at Wave Hill, a public garden and under-the-radar treasure in the Bronx, she enjoyed the beautiful plantings and the…
Read more The Wave Hill Chair: Minimalist, Timeless—and You Can Make It Yourself! – Gardenista