All 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 FairytaleWhen I put a call out to my garden design friends about the topic of “cramscaping,” I received a lot of replies along the lines of, “I have…
Read more What Is Cramscaping? Everything You Want to Know About the Garden Design TrendPost-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 DesignThe new book A Year in Bloom has a great premise: Ask some of the world’s top garden people to talk about their favorite bulbs, thus solving one…
Read more ‘A Year in Bloom’: The New Book’s Contributors’ Share Their Favorite Bulbs to Naturalize in the Spring“I think time is the fourth dimension,” says Louise Agee Wrinkle, in the kind of Southern accent you’d hope to find in Alabama but so rarely do. She…
Read more Louise Wrinkle: ‘A Garden in Conversation’ Is About the Landscape in Alabama that Inspired Her Gardening JourneyHas there ever been a less rock ‘n’ roll category of plant than shrubs, subshrubs, and bushes? A new book, Shrouded in Light: Naturalistic Planting Inspired by Wild…
Read more ‘Shrouded in Light’: A New Book by Kevin Williams and Michael Guidi Makes the Case for Shrubs
