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

An award-winning landscape designer’s own extensive gardens reflect two decades of cultivation and care.

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

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

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

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

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

Design your garden around the style of your house.

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.

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

A buried trough for water plants and soothing sound.

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

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.

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.

They still make Victorian pedestal mailboxes.

Underlying structure + horticulture = seasonal interest.

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

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

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

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

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

Down the woodland path to a formal garden.

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.

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