Shopper's Diary: Secret Herb Garden in Scotland

"A big glasshouse stuffed full of flowers, herbs, cake, and vintage furniture— well, that's my idea of paradise," writes blogger Jen Chillingsworth of Little-Birdie. Ours too. So we asked Jen if we coul

Rehab Diary, Part 2: Rescuing Nancy Lancaster's Garden at Wilderness House

Restoring the garden at the Wilderness is pleasantly frightening. This beautiful yet derelict place was once nurtured by one of the best-loved decorators of the 20th century, Nancy Lancaster. She was also famously opinio

Landscape Architect Visit: Clamshell Alley on the Coast of Maine

Massachusetts-based landscape architect Matthew Cunningham grew up in Maine. So when prospective clients contacted him about designing a garden for their newly built summer house in Lamoine, Maine (about a three-hours

Garden Visit: At Home with Writer Daisy Garnett in London

When the writer Daisy Garnett and her husband, Nick Pearson, bought their Georgian house in Brixton, south London, in 2007 the garden initially looked like a verdant utopia. But as they began to strip away the overgrowth

Steal This Look: Garden Courtyard at Shed in Healdsburg, CA

At Shed, the light-filled restaurant and housewares emporium housed in a 10,000-square-foot, glass-walled barn in Healdsburg, California, sun streams in and holds you captive throughout the singular experience of lunch

Landscape Architect Visit: A West Texas River Ranch with a Worldly View

When Austin, Texas-based architect Hugh Jefferson Randolph sat down with his clients, Bill and Gina O'Hara, to imagine what their dream house could be, they conjured up some real-world reference points. Randolph th

Master Class: A Quietly Luxe Belgian Pool House by Marc Merckx

With a pedigree that includes 15 years of working for Belgian master architect Vincent Van Duysen, Marc Merckx designs elegantly minimal furnishings and spaces with a quiet air of luxury. A dark, spare pool house reflect

Landscape Designer Visit: A Sprawling Long Island Estate by Scott Mitchell

Landscape designer Scott Mitchell still remembers the first time he saw the 13.5-acre Sagaponack Road property in Bridgehampton, on the east end of Long Island. "That was about 15 or 16 years ago, and it looked kin

11 Garden Ideas to Steal from Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is a city with a reputation for cold. But while winter snowfalls—averaging nearly eight feet a year—seem punitive to plants,  hardy shrubs and perennials are fine. They need to be dormant. It’s the gardeners who

Dream Landscapes: 10 Perennial Gardens Inspired by Piet Oudolf

Considered "the most influential garden designer of the past 25 years," Dutch plantsman Piet Oudolf has done for perennial gardening what artist Leonard Koren did for the concept of wabi-sabi: popularized and

Sneak Peek: Garden Design Magazine's Aged Elegance

Garden Design magazine’s new issue features an antebellum garden rescued from ruin, staghorn ferns as wall art, and a new garden designed around the aged elegance of old bricks discovered at a stone yard in Los Angeles.

Swimming Pool of the Week: Beautiful Views in the Berkshires

Practicality ruled when a farmhouse in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts was built in the 1800s: it was sited by the road, with working fields within eyesight, in the least private spot on a sprawling property. Wel

Rehab Diary: A Year in the Life of a Brooklyn Garden

Last year, the day after the Fourth of July, in peak growing season, our landlord announced that the lease on our Harlem apartment would not be renewed. He was going to be renovating, he said, and that would include ripp

10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Sea Ranch in Northern California

In the 1960s landscape architect Lawrence Halprin wrote an ode to the northern California coastline with his master plan for a new community called Sea Ranch. Halprin dreamed of low-slung houses that would blend into the

Secret Garden: At Home with Marnie on Cape Cod

After bouncing along an undulating, rutted track, wheels crunching over shell drive while wisteria vines lap at the windows, the entrance to my friend Marnie's garden is like a transition to another world. Her land

Expert Advice: 11 Tips for Gravel Garden Design

Beth Chatto’s gardens in the driest part of the United Kingdom (with just 20 inches of annual rainfall) have become famous not only for their sheer beauty, but also for the mantra on which Chatto’s nursery and entire gar

Garden Outpost: An Instagram Star on an Island in Denmark

Where long daylight hours are guaranteed but long summers are not, it's a good idea to be ready when the sun does come out. Lifestyle photographer and gardener Mette Krull  gathers pots around doors, staircases, an

Garden Visit: A Factory Yard at Emma Bridgewater in Stoke-on-Trent

If Arthur Parkinson (the 23-year-old mastermind behind the gorgeous garden at English potter Emma Bridgewater's vast Stoke-on-Trent headquarters) has a holy trinity of garden inspiration, it is surely Beatrix Potte

Swimming Pool of the Week: A 1920s-Era Summer House at Woods' Edge

The first-growth trees surrounding Moss Ledge—a Berkshire Mountains summer house built in the 1920s—had all been harvested by the end of World War I. Today, second-growth pines, maples, and oaks are thriving, and the new

NYC Weekend: Lily Pads and Rooftop Ponds at the Whitney Museum

On admiring a graceful trio of ponds on the terrace at the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan's Meatpacking District, we enquired after the designer. But Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, responsible f