Gardens

A slope can feel like the problem that rules your whole garden. Water runs off it, mowers slide on it, soil washes down it, and the

There is a particular kind of tension in a garden you can be seen from. You want to read, eat, or simply sit with a coffee,

Garden edging is a small detail with an outsized effect. It decides where the lawn stops, where the mulch stays, where gravel does not spill, and

Garden lighting is at its best when you notice the garden, not the fittings. A few well-placed lights can make paths safer, extend a patio into

A fence is usually the largest single object in a garden and almost always the least considered. It is put up by a contractor in a

A path is the one thing in a garden that everybody uses and almost nobody plans. It gets laid where the concrete happened to end, or

Rock gardens have an image problem. Most people picture the sad 1970s version: a heap of soil with some rocks dropped on top and a struggling

A Japanese garden is the quietest garden there is, and the quiet is not an accident. Every element in it has been chosen, placed and then,

A tropical garden is the one style that hits you physically. You step through a gap in the planting, the air goes still and humid, the

The Mediterranean garden is the one everybody comes home from holiday wanting. It is not really about the plants, or not only: it is the smell