I undertook a major landscape redesign project last spring of the side garden of my home. Now that it’s grown in some, I want to show you how it turned out, which I’ll do soon. Today, I want to show you my garden “mood board.” It’s not a mood board in the traditional sense, but a collection of image
Just today I was able to go out into the garden and cut flowers for our dining table (photo above). It's comfort to my soul to be able to grow flowers for our own home.
Outdoor Steps One of the best ways to create a visually interesting outdoor living space is to play with changing levels in your design
I was going to write about Verbena bonariensis to sing its praises in long periods of drought and then I heard something odd. I was at a talk at the Garden Museum in London and an audience member asked/stated: "What would you say to all the male designers who always plant V. bonariensis and grasses?
A raised bed garden offers many advantages to in-ground gardening. Find some raised garden bed ideas to inspire you here.
Gardener and designer Tim Pilgrim has transformed a once flat block of land into a magical garden that blooms and evolves with the seasons.
How do you create a woodland wildlife garden? It's simple with this complete design plan and plant list. A woodland wildlife garden is the best environmental choice for a garden design. Ecologically, a woodland garden using native plants will help to restore native flora and fauna in our urban and s
A Seattle home gets a complete garden makeover, from back to front, pond to driveway.
With the help of Simon Irvine, curator and potter Joanna Bird has turned her garden into an exhibition space, where modern sculpted ceramics meet calming evergreens
Behind her house in Oxford, garden designer Laura Heybrook has created a plant lover’s paradise, filled with colourful scented flowers and grasses against a backdrop of evergreens and topiary
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I am forever looking forwards, towards the next step in our house, one idea leads to another and my mind gets completely carried away. But I think it's this forethought that is helping me visualise everything as a whole, how can you make decisions about an extension and it's layout without consideri
With its giant strawberries and nudity, Hieronymus Bosch’s painting has been seen as a celebration and warning about sin – but it’s really about a Renaissance-era curiosity that helped better explain the world
Garden Design magazine's new issue celebrates wild landscapes, never-before-seen coastal gardens, rugged terra cotta pots, and standout ferns for shade or
In line with the owners’ environmental vision, our Garden Designer of the Year Dan Pearson has created a sustainable and productive garden in tune with nature, which celebrates its spectacular location on the Devon coast.
Completed in 2017 in Elsternwick, Australia. Images by Shannon McGrath. Camouflaged and nestled into a modest residential garden, the Writers Shed provides an isolated workspace for a creative writer. The outbuilding sits...
Outdoor tropical plants bring a little slice of paradise right to your door. If you're considering planting tropical flowers or foliage, here are some ideas to get you started.
Buell Steelman and Rebecca Sams are alums of Gardens, the groundbreaking landscape architecture design/build firm in Austin, Texas. A decade ago, they trad
Cottage style gardens are wildly popular today and tend to be lower maintenance than their formal counterparts. See how easy it is to add cottage style.
Use this summer cottage garden plan to fill your yard with flowers during the warmer months.
Image 13 of 20 from gallery of Garden House / James Design Studio. Photograph by Simon Whitbread
Recently when I judged The 68th Chronicle Garden Competition, preceding Toowoomba’s Carnival of Flowers, I chose ‘Terrara’, a garden growing mainly Australian native plants as Gra…
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The garden of an Oxfordshire manor house has been reinvigorated over many years by the designer Arne Maynard, with bold, distinctive new elements set against the existing framework.
We’re going to be re-designing the entire bungalow home and bring in some of our hispanic roots for a beautiful Spanish Mediterranean feel.
Printing note: This design was created to be 8.5″ x 14″ and the design pdf will print best on legal size paper. Existing Site Conditions Existing site conditions are important when selecting the right plant for the right place. Observe the site during different times of the day and seasons. Plan for your surroundings; short […]
A raconteur is an expert storyteller, and Atelier Altern takes on this responsibility of spinning a tale through their project, On vous raconte des
rtfgvb This week I am featuring a made-to-order garden from Spring Hill Nurseries. For those of you that are not confident in your planning skills, this nursery has a handful of pre-planned, ready to plant gardens. This one is nice because it is planned for waves of color in every season. I ordered this garden […]
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Green-thumbed friends gather among vegetable beds for a laid-back meal in a Phippsburg potting shed.
So you want to have a beautiful yard filled with plants that will add character, but you have no sun because your entire yard is covered with trees? Do you have a back covered patio that’s in need of some refreshing and updating? Well, we at Garden Valley Farmers Market, have got you covered with o
Gardener and designer Tim Pilgrim has transformed a once flat block of land into a magical garden that blooms and evolves with the seasons.
Plan now for next season's garden. Let our four garden layouts spark your imagination.
