“Garden Design Recipes: Design Without the Designer” (ISBN: 978-173426007) by April Harden is a do-it-yourself garden design book that provides easy-to-follow instructions. Put together in a recipe style format, there are Garden Design Recipes for creating 75 different gardens in multiple areas across the country. The book contains over 600 colorful photos, illustrations, drawings, step-by-step […]

While you can plan your garden or landscaping just using your own imagination, viewing it on paper or on design software usually gives better results. You don’t have to spend money on expensive software to plan a patio, deck, or garden – there are plenty of free tools that you can access right from your […]

Thinking about our gardens can inspire a flood of ideas, perhaps starting with maintenance priorities, going through occasional inspirations for additional plants, and then stepping back to consider the overall garden design. In these columns, I have often encouraged a thematic approach to garden design for practical reasons: a theme provides a framework for selecting […]

The Duchess of Cambridge revealed the garden she designed for the Chelsea Flower Show in a playful image posted by Kensington Palace. The photo, taken by a palace aide last week, shows Kate happily testing a swing on the road as part of the plot meant to rekindle the magic of childhood. The garden aims […]

Chester-based landscaping company The Cheshire Garden unveiled the design for a memorial garden for the 25th anniversary of Children Today Charitable Trust. Jane Bingham of The Cheshire Garden and Penny Hearn of Planting with Penny collaborated on the design of the garden, which is called Let’s Go Fly A Kite! The Concept Garden will be […]

A RECENT STUDY of the National Association of Landscape Professionals revealed that the zeitgeist of garden design has little to do with botanical culture and everything to do with compressing extra living space out of our courtyards. When the association asked 1,000 designers and entrepreneurs to predict the most influential landscape trends for 2019, three […]

Photo: Andy Sewell for the WSJ. Magazine Through Arabella lennox boyd February 11, 2019 9:07 a.m. ET Photo: Andy Sewell for the WSJ. Magazine “My passion for collecting trees began in 1990. To date, I have planted over 7,000 trees at Gresgarth Hall [in Lancashire, England]. The pinus lambertiana pine cone in the middle of […]

Now that it is truly winter as you go through your seed catalogs, you might want to start planning next year’s garden with your past pest issues in mind. So first of all, think about what your top garden pests were in 2018. Did you have aphids in your vegetables? Worms in your apples? Leaf […]

Tom derbyshire Dec 14 2018 This year marked the bicentennial of his death and as well as a series of events held to celebrate his genius, 2018 ends with an intriguing item offered in the December 19 book sale at the Tennants auction house in Leyburn , North Yorkshire, demonstrating its entrepreneurial spirit. Repton (1752-1818), […]

By Michelle Glitzer ’20, Marketing and Communications Intern Delaware Valley University faculty member Gene Huntington exposed students in his sustainability class to the importance of taking care of the environment. Rather than settling for information on topics like invasive species and biodiversity, Huntington – or, as his students call him, “Coach” – wants his students […]

Tamsin Latte When Tamsin Slatter started using Vector works about 10 or 11 years ago he was taught to believe that design software couldn’t be creative when it came to garden design Slatter, UK Customer Success Director for Vectorworks, first worked in the corporate IT world before retraining as a landscaper, where only hand drawing […]

Low-maintenance and user-friendly, this 20-foot-wide backyard garden, built and planted by Brook Landscape of Crown Heights, proves that garden design doesn’t need to be complex to be successful. “You don’t need a ton of ingredients to make a great meal,” says Brook Klausing, who founded the design / build company in 2007 with Brian Green, […]

A certain amount of lawn may be aesthetically unavoidable in some projects; Williams used it in the Palm Beach Minimal Project to break sightlines, for example. “But the days of grassy lawns in California are pretty much over,” Lewis says. Selecting the right greenery alone does not make a garden sustainable. Landscaping is also important, […]

More gardens and landscapes are designed to be enjoyed in the glow of the sun, but moonlit gardens are designed to thrive at dusk. This type of garden can be mysterious and magical as the silver and white plants seem to glow in the evening. They can be found everywhere, from state parks such as […]

More gardens and landscapes are designed to be enjoyed in the glow of the sun, but moonlit gardens are designed to thrive at dusk. This type of garden can be mysterious and magical as the silver and white plants seem to glow in the evening. They are found everywhere, from state parks such as Sonnenberg […]

The days of looking longingly out the window, wishing to be in the garden and not looking at it from behind glass, are almost behind us. Many of us have big plans in mind for how we’re going to change a garden, create a new landscape, and create our living masterpieces big and small. I […]

Anyone who has spent time with British landscape artist Arne Maynard knows he likes to dream big. A new book, Arne Maynard’s Gardens (Merrell, $67), demonstrates this fact through a bevy of lavish photographs of large-scale designs Maynard created in Europe and America. But the volume also shows how Maynard thinks small. An admired luminary […]