Garden trends are slow to change—plants take time to grow, after all—but one landscaping approach has clearly boomed in recent years: Naturalistic garden design. Inspired in part by famous Dutch ...

Say goodbye to overly manicured lawns and strict planting patterns, because naturalistic planting is the landscape trend on everyone’s lips this year. Aimed at cooperating with Mother Nature and ...

LANDSCAPE DESIGN continues to grow less formal—more prairie than pruned, more meadow than managed. Adhering to the practice of “right plant, right place,” even to the point of choosing only native ...

Naturalistic gardening is a way to blend concern for ecology with a desire to plant a "pretty" garden. The current native-plant push grew out of the desire to end our trim-happy, spray-rampant, ...

At the OPC Garden at the Rochester senior citizen’s center, I steward with a bunch of volunteers, and there’s an area we call the orphan garden. Because it’s not readily seen and we don’t have enough ...

Lovejoy (Cascadia; The Garden in Bloom) differentiates the undeveloped style of natural, ecologically correct gardens (""more earnest than beautiful"") from the high art of naturalistic gardens (which ...

Today’s column continues the garden development series with a focus on plant selection. Garden development can be a productive activity during winter’s cold and rainy days, as gardeners wait patiently ...

Several months ago, I wrote about a remarkable book by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West: “Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes” (Timber Press, 2015). In ...

In recent years, landscape design trends have migrated toward naturalistic aesthetics — a style that equally prioritizes ecological function, native plant selection, and beauty. For some, this may ...

When 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 never heard of cramscaping, but I suspect I do it” or “I had ...