Say goodbye to overly manicured lawns and strict planting patterns, because naturalistic planting is the landscape trend on everyone’s lips this year. Aimed at cooperating with Mother Nature and ...

For an easy and low-maintenance design choice, ornamental grasses are one of the most useful plants you can include in your garden. Grasses work with just about every style of yard, and their many ...

Naturalistic gardening is a way to blend concern for ecology with a desire to plant a "pretty" garden. The current native-plant push grew out of the desire to end our trim-happy, spray-rampant, ...

Keeping your garden on trend is no easy feat and with the recent arrival of 2026, you may be wondering what direction garden design will take over the coming months. One trend is the rise of ‘soft ...

LANDSCAPE DESIGN continues to grow less formal—more prairie than pruned, more meadow than managed. Adhering to the practice of “right plant, right place,” even to the point of choosing only native ...

Noel Kingsbury is a man outstanding in his field—and his field is gardens. The British garden designer, researcher and writer is among the renowned experts traveling to Water Mill this weekend for the ...

Lovejoy (Cascadia; The Garden in Bloom) differentiates the undeveloped style of natural, ecologically correct gardens (""more earnest than beautiful"") from the high art of naturalistic gardens (which ...

Do you have a plant-related class, garden tour or other event you’d like us to mention? Email me at [email protected] — with at least three weeks’ notice, please! — and we may include it ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Our recent column introduced matrix planting, a naturalistic approach to designing a garden bed, or a full garden. This design approach reflects natural ...

In “Part One, What Can I Give My Plants,” you were encouraged to analyze your planting site, and to determine the existing conditions in your garden space. With site map in hand, the fun begins as you ...

Editor’s note: This is the first of a four part series which was originally published in 2017. Are you ready to convert your thirsty lawn to a beautiful array of low water plants? Have you had your ...