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Serene Thumb

Serene Thumb

Simplicty rules in Christopher LaGuardia's landscape designs.

June 2013
Garden Inspiration

Garden Inspiration

Designer Amy Aidinis Hirsch converts a bare-bones garage into a top-of-the-line potting shed.

May 2013
Landscape designer Thomas Hoblyn discusses his go-to North American flora

Landscape designer Thomas Hoblyn discusses his go-to North American flora

From Vita Sackville West’s gardens at Sissinghurst Castle, and Stourhead’s lakeside tulip trees and redwoods to the Pagoda vistas at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Britain’s ornamental landscape owes an abiding debt to the plants of North America.

May 2013
Landscape designer Katie Brown creates an easygoing, informal garden on her home turf

Landscape designer Katie Brown creates an easygoing, informal garden on her home turf

There were a number of challenges to creating a garden, including a serious lack of water and tricky topography. Under Katie Brown’s watch, the landscape has become a winding patchwork of calm and cozy, discrete garden spaces, shifting in character from one to the next.

May 2013
Embrace the great outdoors with a fresh, new look

Embrace the great outdoors with a fresh, new look

Whether you are hosting an outdoor gathering or updating your backyard space, we've got just what you are looking for. Create a tranquil space indoors or outdoors with DEDON's multifaceted garden partition or set a table for guests with Link Outdoor's vibrant fabric collection in bright yellows, greens and blues.

May 2013
When it comes to garden shows, Trade Secrets draws the cream of the crop

When it comes to garden shows, Trade Secrets draws the cream of the crop

Want to garden like a guru? Plant yourself firmly within earshot of a crowd with soil under their fingernails and listen up. Where are all the Wellies congregating this spring? At Trade Secrets on May 18 at Elaine LaRoche's LionRock Farm in Sharon, where a whole lot of people will be talking dirty.

May 2013
At Cobble Pond Farm, Kathy Metz breathes life into a forgotten Olmsted landscape

At Cobble Pond Farm, Kathy Metz breathes life into a forgotten Olmsted landscape

Kathy Metz had no plans whatsoever to elope with Cobble Pond Farm. In fact, a passionate relationship with a property just wasn’t on her radar before she met the 250-acre Sharon farm in person.

May 2013
Middle Ages Spread

Middle Ages Spread

After 75 years at the Cloisters Museum and Gardens in upper Manhattan, the gardens still include medieval planting schemes, using plants known in the Middle Ages, since John D. Rockefeller Jr., donated the Unicorn Tapestries to the museum in 1937. The gardens have always been an important part of the concept behind the Cloisters.

May 2013
Up close and personal with Untermyer Gardens Conservancy

Up close and personal with Untermyer Gardens Conservancy

In Yonkers, NY, "America's Greatest Forgotten Garden" is restored into a beautiful garden escape collaborating all of the unique styles from the Middle East, Persia and Islam.

April 2013
Manhattan's Battery Gardens is restored and rejuvenated

Manhattan's Battery Gardens is restored and rejuvenated

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Warrie Price, Founder and President of the Battery Conservancy helps bring the gardens back on track. This year, visitors can look forward to a new and improved park as well as the opening of Battery Green, a three-acre town green with a quarter-mile walking path

March 2013

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