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 – GardenistaIs your garden probiotic? In other words, is it teeming with beneficial microbes that vastly outnumber pathogens and keep you healthy? Looking at your landscape from this angle,…
Read more Ask the Expert: How to Invite More Good Bacteria Into Your Garden (And Your Gut) – 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 BookOverhauling 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 SpaceAs more garden and landscape designers aspire to create sustainable gardens, there’s one significant but often ignored aspect of sustainability they should pay attention to: hardscape materials. For…
Read more How to Lower Your Footprint When Designing an Outdoor SpaceThe 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, MAIn this week’s installment of Quick Takes, we present a pair of Brooklyn academics with a flair for garden design, Corwin Green and Damon Arrington, partners in life…
Read more Corwin Green and Damon Arrington: An Interview With the Founders of Verrru DesignPost-renovation, the back yard was filled with debris, including shards of concrete. “Instead of dumping the stuff, we used what was there to create what I call an…
Read more Brooklyn Backyard Visit: Pea Gravel Stars in the Transformation of an Urban Garden by Verru DesignWe’ve long admired the work of New York architects Messana O’Rorke, so when we inquired about the glass-wall extension and surrounding landscaping of an impressive project in London’s…
Read more A Secret Garden—and Glass Extension—in London’s Tufnell Park – GardenistaAll 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 – GardenistaToo 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 – GardenistaIf you’re searching for tiles for an interior design project, the hard part is choosing from the gazillion options out there. Sourcing for tiles and materials for an…
Read more OUTERcle: A New Source for Outdoor Tiles, Materials, and SculptureWe generally save the “before” images for the end of our articles, but in this case, it’s helpful and inspiring to see upfront the space pre-remodel. Take a…
Read more Before & After: Converting an Unusable, Exposed London Rooftop Into a Tranquil, Private Terrace – GardenistaIn 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 FoundationThis is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to toxic-free, nature-based gardening, on how you can be more sustainable in your landscapes at home. …
Read more A Meadow Front Yard for Martin Architects by deMauro + deMauroWhat if your driveway were beautiful? If you have a typical American stretch of asphalt for a driveway, this question might come off as an absurd provocation, but…
Read more Naturalistic Permeable Driveways:Tips on Creating a Beautiful Place to Park Your CarA scroll through landscape designer Molly Wood’s portfolio reveals gorgeous, rambling properties and infinity pools with views of forever, but it was a recent project on a much…
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