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Designing a Lawnless Front Yard
Fine Gardening — One gardener's bold solution for gaining garden space is to trade greensward for a yard of trees, shrubs, and perennials Apprehension grew in our conservative neighborhood the day the crane arrived. Those who saw it dangling 48-foot posts above ...More…
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On the Cover of Issue 127
Fine Gardening — Loamy, moist, well-drained soil due to an initial doubledigging with compost several years ago. The bed is now regularly mulched with chopped leaves and given supplemental water during dry spells in the height of the summer. A misshapen ...More…
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Creating a Private Haven
Fine Gardening — A designer turned his bleak site into cozy terraces that invite outdoor living From the lower level of our home near downtown Atlanta, we looked out onto an ugly, sloping pad of broken-up concrete. Beyond that were weeds and a fallen tree stump ...More…
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Fundamentals of Foundation Plantings
Fine Gardening — It was love and frustration that propelled me into landscape design. My love of gardening is a legacy from my grandparents. My frustration came about as a practicing architect when I observed many landscape plantings that were insensitive to a ...More…
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Front-Yard Gardens Make a Strong First Impression
Fine Gardening — Front-yard gardens can change neighborhoods. I've witnessed this both as a gardener and as a landscape architect. Years ago, I mixed some annuals and perennials among the evergreen foundation shrubs in front of my family's home. Before long, the . ...More…
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Say Good-bye to Weed Worries
Fine Gardening — Recognize your tolerance level, then decide what controls to use Over the years, as I've walked from my house to a nearby track to exercise, I've noticed small, gradual changes in the way my neighbors combat weeds. Slowly, they've shifted from ...More…
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A Front-Yard Garden in No Time
Fine Gardening — This approach takes you from bare dirt to a bountiful garden As a garden designer, I have developed many types of gardens: big, small, sunny, shady, formal, informal, classic, and contemporary. I have found, however, that no matter what kind of ...More…
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Plants Enclose an In-Town Lot
Fine Gardening — To enclose the front garden, I started by planting large shrubs and trees at the property corners to screen the power lines from view. I did this with evergreen Burford and Foster's hollies ( From the street, these limbed-up trees and shrubs add ...More…
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A Tale of Two Side Yards
Fine Gardening — Here's how one homeowner tackled the challenges of long, narrow spaces I like to wander around my small urban garden in Seattle as often as I can. Along the way, I look at the smallest of details and the big picture as well. Whether I start in ...More…
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A Big Garden on a Small Lot
Fine Gardening — Use these six design strategies to make the most of a limited space When my clients built a two-story house on a corner lot, they also wanted a garden of their dreams and a landscape to set the house to its best advantage. The rooms in the ...More…
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A Room with a View
Fine Gardening — The large window in my home office looks out onto a deep backyard, where weeping willows and majestic sequoias in adjacent properties extend the view so that my back garden looks much bigger than its actual size. This panorama, unfortunately, is ...More…
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Using Search on FineGardening.com
Fine Gardening — Finding the right article or plant profile among the thousands available on our Web site can seem as daunting as a flower bed overrun by weeds. But with the right tools and techniques, the job is easy and yields great results. Here are some tips ...More…