Meadow Garden

Garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith raised his own prairie garden from seed and was delighted to find it requires a fraction of the maintenance of a conventional border

John Greenlee paints with grasses. His colorful meadow gardens, created for clients around the world, are environmentally friendly alternatives to a tradit

Even a small garden can enjoy a beautiful mini meadow with wildflowers. It's easy - but not as simple as just letting your grass grow. Find out here!

Time spent outdoors can aid both your physical and mental health—why not return nature’s favor by taking your garden back to its roots?

This garden’s matrix-style planting is composed of more than 40 genera organized by their functional role. Find plant IDs here.

Contemporary country garden & modern architecture | garden design of naturalistic perennial planting, modern hard landscaping, feature trees & garden sculpture.

Piet Oudolf garden

This space proves that more structure leads to greater appeal. See how an award-winning landscape designer created a stylized meadow garden.

Worst question, ever, "What plant should I place here?" . Coming to Garden Design after receiving a BS Engineering, I remember well that line of Garden Design thought process. . Not merely a terrible question, it lies in the wrong galaxy of where to base questions about Garden Design. Then came the degree in Horticulture. More galaxies of wrong thinking. That education taught me to be a man with a truck, power equipment, bags of chemicals, monthly contracts, designing to commodify every…

An Iowa gardener takes cues from nature to create an easy-care wildlife haven filled with colorful native plants.