If you want to replace your high maintenance formal landscape with this cozy, low maintenance alternative, it takes a little planning and prep. For the garden to thrive on its own, you need to ...

A formal garden sounds grand and imposing, evoking images of huge, impeccably manicured gardens attached to European palaces. But what if we told you that anyone can have a formal garden, even in ...

If you've ever pined for the gardens of France, you can bring some of that Gallic splendor to your own backyard with a little ...

At the most basic, a naturalistic landscape is inspired by the patterns and plants in a native ecosystem. It works to mimic ...

A walk through the formal gardens at Wethersfield Estate & Garden, in Amenia, N.Y., offers a dreamy escape back in time. The landscape, some 80 years in the making, conjures the Italian ...

One reason chaos gardening may be catching on is because it sidesteps the rules of garden design. A traditional landscape ...

The sophisticated style, according to several landscaping sources, grew out of medieval knot gardens, which separated plants from each other by small hedges.

Formal gardens evoke certain images of precise landscaping—boxwood hedges, blooming flowers, and other greenery—mixed with nonliving elements such as sculptures, fountains, and benches.