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  • View of the front of the house with curved beds embracing the front walk
    Design

    Curve Appeal

    When Catherine Feldman first moved to her home in Shaker Heights, Ohio, the garden was essentially a blank slate. She dreamed of bringing the neglected landscape back to life and…

  • fountain surrounded by plants
    Design

    Designing a Tranquil Garden

    My ideal garden is a serene place, one in which I feel connected to the natural world through rich, sensory experiences. It is a place that generates a sense of…

  • garden inspired by english garden design
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    Adapting English Elegance

    It took about five years and two road trips through England before Anne Campodonico was ready to start her garden. True, the Kentfield, California, mother of three wasn’t in a…

  • VIew of the skyline, a raised bed and seating area from the garden
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    Take the Vegetable Garden to New Heights

    The task was a bit overwhelming: Design and create an edible garden that was productive enough to supply produce for a restaurant, make sure it looked beautiful most of the…

  • path lined with plants leading to a chair
    Design

    Hardworking Hardscape

    If I had a gardening time machine, I would use it to return to the day I started my garden. Instead of going to the nursery and getting a trunkful…

  • Article

    Rhododendrons and Fashion

    Last week was the 103rd Chelsea Flower Show - it was, of course, sublime in particular an amazing garden designed by Dan Pearson and based on the rockery at Chatsworth House in…

  • Design

    A Woodland Garden Design

    In 1989, after 13 years of marriage, my husband, Bud, and I ventured back to my hometown with our family of four. A beautiful piece of property awaited us: a…

  • Beautiful edibles intermingle with useful ornamentals and a yellow ladder trellis
    Design

    How to Spruce Up Your Veggie Garden

    Edible gardens are, too often, purely utilitarian spaces relegated to the outer reaches of an overall garden design. But they can be so much more with just a few design…

  • Design

    A Fairy-Tale Cottage in the Woods

    In the April issue of Fine Gardening, Terie Rawn shared lessons she has learned while carving a garden out of the woods in upstate New York for the past 25…

  • How-To

    Pest Control—Elizabethan Style

    In the days before chemicals, the gardener had to come up with more creative solutions.