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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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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A Winter’s Tale at Juniper Hill Farm

Winter interest was paramount in the architectural design of this garden.

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Tree Planting 101 (Hint: It’s Not What You’ve Heard)

To ensure beautiful trees for years to come, you’re better off ignoring some popular gardening advice.

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Back to the Land

Ways your landscape can give back to you—agrarian style.

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Grand Vision for a Tiny Retreat

Architect and homeowner collaborate on a scheme to turn a dusty yard and a pressure-treated deck into a beautiful new amenity.

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The Perspective Landscape

Layering built and organic features transforms a lot “with potential” into a sweet retreat.

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Living History

Discovering ancient plantings for American gardens.

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The Magic of Willowwood

Surrounding a house with portions dating to 1792, a landscape from gardening’s golden age unfolds.

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An Urban Garden in Massachusetts

How an avid gardener and her landscape designers reworked a streetside urban plot to create private “rooms” along with lawns and perennial beds—while honoring the scale of the big old house.

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Garden Gate from Window Grate

Repurposing a window grate.

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Garden Glories

Historically, a porch was an indulgence of time and materials, but the benefits always outweighed the expense.

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Fruitful Garden

Even the word, orchard, invokes an air of tradition and permanence, of hearth and home, of established place and purpose.

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A Farm Garden Reimagined

The boxy original house begged for light-filled wings and a conservatory to tie it to the rural property. The foundation was kept unfettered by plantings in the Victorian tradition, but new gardens are everywhere.

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Garden Aesthetics

Ontario–based Virginia Burt weaves century-old construction materials into a contemporary landscape on two residential acres in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Nostalgic Colonial Revival Gardens

Roses climbing the arbor, brick paths through the perennials, and a sundial: Colonial Revival gardens are the definition of Americana.

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