Garden Design

What type of garden is appropriate for your historic home’s style? Here you’ll find advice for garden design in numerous complementary styles, such as ornamental gardens, Georgian style, Federal style, Greek Revival, and more.

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The Architecture of the Garden

Design your garden around the style of your house.

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Antebellum Garden Design

Large southern plantation homes often lacked lavish outdoor spaces, but ones that did sport elaborate gardens tended to be designed in a geometric manner that complemented the classical and formal lines of the house.

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Greek Revival Garden

Emerging out of mud and stumps, a pretty garden flourishes around an 1835 Greek Revival farmhouse.

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A Do-It-Yourself Water Feature

A buried trough for water plants and soothing sound.

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Ground Covers and Underplanting

In The Garden: Add texture, prevent weeds, do away with mulch.

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Restoring Historic Hardscapes

One of the real pleasures of owning an old house is that the landscape around it has reached maturity. To revive or enhance hardscape elements from the land’s past history, expect to do some sleuthing.

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Taming Wildmuir, An English Garden

In New York’s Catskill Mountains, an English garden with deep roots and its architecture intact is nudged toward simplicity with native plants and shrubs.

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Victorian Pedestal Mailboxes

They still make Victorian pedestal mailboxes.

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The Year-Round Garden

Underlying structure + horticulture = seasonal interest.

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A Landscape Designer’s House & Garden

New England landscape designer Andrew Grossman bought his house, a 19th-century Cape, strictly for the lot.

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Reviving a Historical Landscape

Janice Parker revives a historical landscape to its former beauty by using classical and romantic design inspiration.

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Designing a Vintage Landscape

A Boston area landscape gets a serious upgrade with timeless appeal.

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Strange & Wonderful Topiary Gardens

See living plants sculpted into obelisks, lollipops, even animals.

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A Garden Downeast

A Garden Designer Finds His Muse in His Own Garden Surrounding an Arts & Crafts Summer Cottage in Cape Neddick, Maine.

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Sculpting the Land

Down the woodland path to a formal garden.

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Colorful, Old-Fashioned Annuals

This year, step away from the newest of the new and incorporate a few of these old-fashioned annuals into your garden plans. Their history and continuous color make them perfect for every old-house garden.

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