Herman is also especially generous with the details, like a friend offering insightful advice. For example, here’s her precise description of her pool: “The pool measures 12 by…
Read more ‘A Moment in Time’: Kathryn Herman’s Country Garden in ConnecticutThere is a strong temptation to stay indoors when the world freezes. But out there in the cold, and especially after snowfall, the brown bones of gardens are…
Read more Snowscape Visit: The Max Family Garden in Brooklyn – GardenistaLast Friday night the Society of Garden and Landscape Designers (SGLD) gathered in London to present their annual awards. Gardenista got the scoop on this year’s winners, which…
Read more Nicholas Morton’s SGLD Award-Winning Coastal GardenSusanna 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 – GardenistaOnly a handful of gardens around the globe are real must-visits for garden lovers. Ayrlies, on a large country estate near Whitford, southeast of Auckland on New Zealand’s…
Read more Garden Visit: Beverley McConnell’s 12 Acres of Eden – 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 – GardenistaLike many excellent chefs, Samin Nosrat is also a keen gardener. When she’s not recipe testing or cooking for friends or, as is often the case these days,…
Read more Samin Nosrat’s Communal Courtyard Garden in Oakland, CAAll 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 FairytaleOverhauling a townhouse backyard after a renovation is a fairly common assignment for a New York City landscape designer. For one recent project, Julie Farris, the founder of…
Read more A Secret Garden in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, by Julie Farris of XS SpaceFile this under Seemingly Antithetical but True: The tinier the outdoor space, the more verdant it should be. “We find that minimalist garden strategies work well on large,…
Read more Wild Is Best: A Low-Water, High-Spirit Garden in a Small Footprint for an Architect – GardenistaAnn Nichol’s home and garden in Oakland, CA, is impossible to miss. Fortunately, there is ample street parking on her block to pull over and gawk and be…
Read more Garden Visit: An 81-Year-Old Daily Gardener in Oakland Shares Her Lessons Learned – 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 BackyardThe 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, MAFor those familiar with Los Angeles, the words “Santa Monica” will likely conjure up a very Californian version of the all-American idyll: an iconic pier and long stretches…
Read more A Santa Monica Backyard by ORCA Inspired by Mediterrannean LandscapesLast month, the Garden Museum Literary Festival (a traveling event that visits a different historic garden each year in the U.K.) arrived at Iford Manor, just a few…
Read more Iford Manor: A Tour Its Magnificent Gardens in SomersetStrike one: a house in need of a major renovation. Strike two: a garden in need of love. Strike three: a remodel that left the surrounding landscape decimated.…
Read more A Stunning Garden in North Haven, NY, by DeMauro + DeMauroAt first glance, the Victorian terrace in Herne Hill looks like so many others on its South London street: stock brick, narrow footprint, and the familiar rhythm of…
Read more Victorian Terrace Garden in Herne Hill by O’Sullivan Skoufoglou“I don’t do frilly,” say Diane Schaub, director of gardens at Central Park Conservancy. We are standing under the shade of an old magnolia in the English garden,…
Read more Color Theory: 10 Perfect Plant Combinations for Autumn – GardenistaIn just two weeks, Gardenista: The Low-Impact Garden lands in bookstores! We are so appreciative of all the interest the book has already generated. As a thank-you, our…
Read more The Low-Impact Garden: Fiona Brockhoff’s Nature-Based Garden on the Mornington Peninsula