Classic gardens also often include unique, self-contained gardens like the traditional knot garden. Resembling historical patterns of tapestries, rugs or Celtic knots of the 1400s, they include ...

JOHN PATRICK: Formal gardens have been with us for over 2000 years. In fact, there are elements of this garden that ancient Pompeian gardens would feel quite at home with. And even with the advent ...

English garden ideas have evolved from the classic combination of smartly clipped hedges, romantic meandering paths and lushly planted drifts of flowers that's known around the world, to embrace a ...

Even if a garden is nothing more than formal clipped boxwood and crushed gravel pathways, we still have to contend with moles and blowing autumn leaves and moss.

French gardens are among the most formal. ... “French parterres—or patterns on the ground of clipped hedges, flowers, and gravel—are a defining feature.” Terraces, ...

Stuffy and respectable, the 3 acres that surrounded me (and my cheese-and-tomato sandwich) spoke in the clipped Britishisms of “annual bedding,” “perennial border” and “rose garden.” ...

This beautiful garden has proved popular for marriage proposals, with its 154 acres of historic landscape. Explore the ...

Climate-resilient gardens, Mediterranean-style planting and a focus on making your outdoor space a sanctuary will all be trends that gardeners will take away with them from this year’s RHS ...

This triangular-shaped modern-style house lends itself to a formal-style garden with geometric patterns such as the rectangular pond running the length of the lawn. Expert tip In a formal layout ...

Even the best gardeners need a boost sometimes -- a new look, from porch plantings to hedges to borders. Travel broadens the mind, and garden travel broadens our plant and design palette; our ...