Gardens

A cottage herb garden should feel useful before it feels decorative. You want rosemary for potatoes, mint for tea, basil for summer tomatoes, and a path

A low-maintenance garden is not a bare garden. The best examples are planted with intention and structured so that the plants do the work: suppressing weeds,

A wildlife garden is the rare kind of gardening where doing less often achieves more. The messy corner you have been meaning to clear is already

Gravel and cottage gardens might seem like opposites, yet they belong together. A gravel mulch keeps roots cool, suppresses weeds, and mimics the free-draining conditions that

There is nothing quite like walking out the back door and picking dinner. A vegetable garden turns a patch of ground into a working larder, and

A well-planted flower bed is the quickest way to turn a flat, green yard into a garden. It is where color, scent and life arrive —

A patio is where the house spills out into the garden. The spot you eat breakfast in summer, gather around a fire in fall, and drift

Your backyard is the one room of the house with a sky for a ceiling, and yet it is so often the last to get any

A pot is the most democratic way to garden. No soil, no border, no yard at all. Just a container, some compost and a plant. And

There is something about a cottage garden that makes you slow down. Roses tumble over the doorway, bees work the foxgloves, and a narrow path disappears