Take-Aways From a Colonial Revival Garden
True Colonial-era gardens were practical, rarely ornamental, and relied on edible and medicinal plants.
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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Recommended Ways to Build a Strong Fence and Gate
Learn the best joinery techniques for a sag-free garden gate.
A Traditional Landscape for a Philadelphia Main Line Estate
Doyle Herman Design Associates bring seamless modernity to a traditional landscape, preserving the viewshed and complementing a Philadelphia Main Line estate.
Tovah Martin's Autumn Garden at Furthermore
Renowned garden writer Tovah Martin shares her personal garden in Connecticut.
Books for Old-House Gardeners
The OHJ editors and writer Tovah Martin share their favorite old-house gardening books.
Designing a Historic Georgian Revival Garden
A soggy lawn gets a makeover to match an early 20th-century Georgian Revival home.
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.
Greek Revival Garden
Emerging out of mud and stumps, a pretty garden flourishes around an 1835 Greek Revival farmhouse.
A Do-It-Yourself Water Feature
A buried trough for water plants and soothing sound.
Ground Covers and Underplanting
In The Garden: Add texture, prevent weeds, do away with mulch.
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.
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.
A Landscape Designer's House & Garden
New England landscape designer Andrew Grossman bought his house, a 19th-century Cape, strictly for the lot.
Reviving a Historical Landscape
Janice Parker revives a historical landscape to its former beauty by using classical and romantic design inspiration.
Designing a Vintage Landscape
A Boston area landscape gets a serious upgrade with timeless appeal.
Strange & Wonderful Topiary Gardens
See living plants sculpted into obelisks, lollipops, even animals.
A Garden Downeast
A Garden Designer Finds His Muse in His Own Garden Surrounding an Arts & Crafts Summer Cottage in Cape Neddick, Maine.
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.
A Winter's Tale at Juniper Hill Farm
Winter interest was paramount in the architectural design of this garden.
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.
Vintage Doors
Bring beauty and value your home with heirloom-quality REAL wood doors by Vintage Doors. Meticulously handmade by expert craftsmen in your exact size and style—to be loved and respected for generations, just like the olden days. Hand-crafted wood product line includes: screen doors, storm doors, Dutch doors, French doors, louver doors, pantry doors, interior doors, exterior doors, entrance units, three season porch enclosures, pet doors, arch top doors, round top doors, custom doors and more.
Nostalgic Warehouse
Classic-style door hardware, engineered for new construction or historic renovation, lacquer-coated, solid brass, patterned after original antique hardware, passage, privacy, mortise lock, or dummy sets and cabinet hardware and accessories.
Pewabic Pottery
Pewabic fabricates heirloom quality architectural tiles for public and private installations, gift and commemorative tiles, vessels, gardenware, ornaments and both reproductions and adaptations of its historic designs and offers classes, workshops, lectures, internships and residency programs for studio potters and other artists.
