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 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 SpaceThere are two main reasons that you might consider planting a pollinator garden in pots instead of in the ground: Either you don’t have a garden bed—or you’ve…
Read more Pollinator Container Gardens: How to Plant a Pot that Will Attract Beneficial InsectsRecently, one of my clients asked if I would add some blue flowers to her garden. Her young daughter had learned that dogs are color-blind and can see…
Read more Best Blue Flowers to Grow in the Garden: My Favorite Blue Perennials and AnnualsAfter 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 Together
