Wild garden

Does the idea of planning and preparation put you off gardening? This sustainable planting trend could be for you

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!

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

It is a sobering thought that no one alive has ever experienced a Winter and Spring in the UK as wet as this has been and, as we go into April, there is no sign of the rain stopping. This obviously affects every garden and gardener but, on the up side, it has been mild and everything is growing well

Whether you want to reduce your grass lawn or replace it, there are lots of options for alternative eco-lawns including wildflowers, clovers, and fescue grass seed mixes.

Raised garden beds are great for preventing weeds, retaining water, and more. Find some raised garden bed ideas to inspire your own here.

The English landscape designer creates lush paradises

Lilium lilies, blue flowers of Agapanthus lily-of-the-Nile, ornamental grasses, Gypsophilia baby's breath, red Dahlia, Eryngium, yellow Achillea,spikey blue eryngium herb Lavandula lavender, in mixed flower garden of perennials and herbs in varying heights, textures, colors

Check out these 10 brilliant ideas to rewild your garden, help your ecosystem, and go back to the roots with as little work as possible.

(Image credit: Apartment Therapy) click thumbnails for larger picsLiving Etc. has a wonderful gallery of outdoor spaces. A few of them are too modern for us, since we love lots of plants, greenery, and full grown trees, but overall they are very inspiring. The ones with a hammock or defined lounge areas are our favorites. The candle light in the garden is a nice touch for warm summer nights.Photos: Living Etc.

Garden Design magazine's new issue celebrates wild landscapes, never-before-seen coastal gardens, rugged terra cotta pots, and standout ferns for shade or

I’ve been planning a formal flower garden for probably two decades. I’ve been so fortunate to visit so many exquisite gardens around the world and studied so many books, so now it is time to put it all into action. If you are new to ROSE & IVY, I recently swapped nearly twenty years of life

Today and every day: Grow and eat good food. Find your grounding in the earth and connect to the nature that is in you — the nature that is you. Make space for wildness. BE wild. Tend and be …

Gardening often invokes images of neat rows and perfectly aligned beds, but there's a growing trend that celebrates the beauty in randomness: chaos gardening.