Anne Roberts, Feir Mill Designs

A modern garden artist who worked in the tradition of Thomas Wright until her recent death was Canadian Anne Roberts, whose Toronto design s...

Runnymede

I am back in London with friends, garden friends who take me nice places. Last visit we went to Runnymede, and I've been meaning to pos...

Langston Hughes' Children's Garden, Harlem, 1955

From The Life of Langston Hughes, by Arnold Rampersad, found at cityfarmer "In the backyard at 20 East 127th Street, (Mr. Langston’s ho...

The fantasmic topiary of Pearl Fryar

“Gardening books will tell you that some of these things in my garden can’t be done, but I had never read them when I got started. Not knowi...

Herbert Bayer's Earthworks

From reader Brice Maryman comes the news that the Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks of Herbert Bayer in Kent, Washington, have been designated a...

Friday Feature Garden - the walls of Sissinghurst

And when one thinks of garden rooms, one thinks of Sissinghurst. One of the great English gardens that I think of as the big S-es, the othe...

Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime by Kenneth Helphand

Re my earlier post on the meaning of gardens : few gardens are so meaningful as those made under the most difficult of circumstances. The co...

Guevrekian's Disco Ball

The artist Gabriel Guevrekian's garden for the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Decoratifs, from which the 'Art Deco' design movem...

Garden for an American Craftsman House

The bungalows from the early twentieth century (c. 1890-1930) we in America refer to as 'Craftsman' houses are often now, in the twe...