Say goodbye to overly manicured lawns and strict planting patterns, because naturalistic planting is the landscape trend on everyone’s lips this year. Aimed at cooperating with Mother Nature and ...

Garden trends are slow to change—plants take time to grow, after all—but one landscaping approach has clearly boomed in recent years: Naturalistic garden design. Inspired in part by famous Dutch ...

Pathways offer a natural, inviting guide through your gardens. Designing those walkways with a softer look helps embrace natural design ideas.

Be careful of using curves purely for the sake of it ...

Natural gardens are made up of native plants and wildflowers. In the wild, they just happen. But around homes, they need to be planned and nurtured. Natural landscape design is achieved by reducing ...

LANDSCAPE DESIGN continues to grow less formal—more prairie than pruned, more meadow than managed. Adhering to the practice of “right plant, right place,” even to the point of choosing only native ...

Maybe you're thinking about replacing some lawn with something more sustainable. Perhaps you have a shady spot where nothing grows. Or you may be looking to create more habitat for wildlife such as ...

If one has a half-acre or more of land which is an old field or thicket phase of development as a result of abandonment from agriculture, one is in an excellent position to initiate a project in ...

From his high school years until his mid-20s, Andrew Marrs pursued a career as a concert pianist. He came to Bloomington to attend the Indiana University School of Music for eight years, earning a ...