GARDENERS ARE always touting foliage over flower. No gardening conversation is complete without someone advocating for small shrubs over work-heavy perennials, and declaring that it’s really trees ...

Gertrude Jekyll would have loved our desert palette if she hadn't been born in Victorian England. This "mother" of the color-centric English perennial border often utilized soft grays, cool colors and ...

The best border flowers will give your paths, driveways, and lawn edges beautiful yet low-maintenance color throughout the ...

In any plant-rich garden, it's crucial to get the colors just right. If you are a color-phobe, I urge you to liberate yourself from the 'everything white' noughties throwback, and include color, ...

British gardeners can take pride in two of our greatest inventions: landscape parks and herbaceous borders. The landscape movement was a development of the old deer parks, but we owe the borders to ...