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 ...

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 ...

For an easy and low-maintenance design choice, ornamental grasses are one of the most useful plants you can include in your garden. Grasses work with just about every style of yard, and their many ...

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 ...

The island bed trend in garden design is big news right now. This aesthetic is a good fit with other current ideas like naturalistic planting and introducing more organic, curvy shapes. If you're ...

Noel Kingsbury is a man outstanding in his field—and his field is gardens. The British garden designer, researcher and writer is among the renowned experts traveling to Water Mill this weekend for the ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Our recent column introduced matrix planting, a naturalistic approach to designing a garden bed, or a full garden. This design approach reflects natural ...

Do you have a plant-related class, garden tour or other event you’d like us to mention? Email me at [email protected] — with at least three weeks’ notice, please! — and we may include it ...

Editor’s note: This is the first of a four part series which was originally published in 2017. Are you ready to convert your thirsty lawn to a beautiful array of low water plants? Have you had your ...

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 ...