Dear Master Gardener: I am looking through plant catalogs and trying to design a perennial ... rest of garden. Cool, peaceful colors (blue, green, purple) tend to recede into the landscape.

Winter gardening doesn't have to mean a barren landscape! With the right selection of perennial plants ... elegance and continuity to your garden's design. Winter Aconites thrive in partial ...

When designing a garden, start by framing it ... Lawns are some of the most labor-intensive parts of a landscape design. Inter-sowing perennial clover can decrease the maintenance required.

The garden designer’s relationship to shrubs is moderately troubled. In the 1980s, the New Perennial movement rejected the rigid ubiquity of sculpted shrubs (typical of the early 20th-century British ...

Naturalistic Planting Inspired by Wild Shrublands by Kevin Philip Williams and Michael Guidi London: Filbert Press, 2024; 240 pages, $55. Reviewed by Danielle VonLehe The garden designer’s ...

January. I just finished pruning my roses and am now ready for my next task. This is the time of year for reevaluating your ...

A biologist explains what to focus on if you’re designing a garden with pollinators in mind − and what you don’t need to worry about.