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.

Garden Design

True Colonial-era gardens were practical, rarely ornamental, and relied on edible and medicinal plants.

By Debra Judge Silber

Garden Design

Learn the best joinery techniques for a sag-free garden gate.

swimming pool area is surrounded by sculpted aerial hornbeam hedges

Garden Design

Doyle Herman Design Associates bring seamless modernity to a traditional landscape, preserving the viewshed and complementing a Philadelphia Main Line estate.

Garden Design

Renowned garden writer Tovah Martin shares her personal garden in Connecticut.

The Garden in Every Sense and Season, gardening book

Garden Design

The OHJ editors and writer Tovah Martin share their favorite old-house gardening books.

A pergola leading from the street frames the symmetrical lines of the yard.

Garden Design

A soggy lawn gets a makeover to match an early 20th-century Georgian Revival home.

Garden Design

Design your garden around the style of your house.

At Afton Villa near St. Francisville, Louisiana, four Classical figures carved of Italian stone mark the place where the house once stood. (Photo: Courtesy of Afton Villa Gardens)

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.

poles with Clematis viticella ‘Polish Spirit’

Garden Design

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

Gardening Projects

A buried trough for water plants and soothing sound.

Garden Design

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

Garden Design

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.

Garden Design

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.

Garden Design

They still make Victorian pedestal mailboxes.

azaleas, astilbes, and blue catmint surround lily pond

Garden Design

Underlying structure + horticulture = seasonal interest.

Garden Design

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

Garden Design

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

The pool house has perfect classical proportions and offers symmetry to the garden.

Garden Design

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

Green Animals in Rhode Island has an enviable location; its historic topiary has been restored.

Garden Design

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

A pair of Hosta sieboldiana flank the gate to the shed and greenhouse; the plants winter under the porch.

Garden Design

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

This view is toward the house from the English cottage garden’s far axis, marked by Rosa ‘Social Climber’ making headway on a wood arbor.

Garden Design

Down the woodland path to a formal garden.

Garden Design

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.

Garden Design

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

Garden Design

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

Garden Design

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

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