“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 – 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 Lessons Learned: My Gravel Garden that (Almost) Looks After Itself – 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 Secret Garden: At Home with Marnie on Cape Cod – GardenistaIn general, flowers are probably less important than form. Some have a fleeting season, perhaps blooming just once before doing nothing for the remaining eleven months of the…
Read more The Best Low-Maintenance Flowers for Your Garden: 8 Sun-Loving FavoritesHardest gardening lesson you’ve learned: Not being realistic about gardening in wetland conditions and thinking plants will survive if I plant them high enough. But even some of…
Read more Alex Bates: An Interview with the Cofounder of Bloomist and Avid GardenerAfter 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 TogetherWe 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 – GardenistaYou’d think choosing plants was easy enough—just find the ones you like, right? And for single specimens in a pot or a monoculture of, say. roses or hydrangeas,…
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