It's that time of year again. Garden catalogs arrive in the mail on a regular basis. Even historian Jill Lepore has a new article in The New Yorker called "What We Learn from Leafing through Seed Catalogues." She presents her…
Garden photography can easily become a treasure of garden design history. It is not just an image of a few flowers, but a photo can enlighten a viewer in what is important in designing beds and other areas in the…
It's that time of year to think about what needs to be done with lawn problems. The lawn has long been a favorite here in the US. But we derive that love with the lawn from the English, who from…
To choose a pollinator for your garden is not always an easy thing to do. Well, we have help from the Garden for Wildlife. Why not choose a native plant? Each state has its own unique collection of native plants.…
Garden historian Margaret Willes writes in her book The Making of the English Gardener, "Grottos had become the fashionable feature of late sixteenth-century Italian gardens. "They echoed the Mannerist style of Architecture of buildings, where the bizarre and the exotic…