Small Garden Design Ideas for the City Dweller

With the weather warming up and spring blooms beginning to reveal themselves, now is the perfect time to scheme a garden—whatever size you’re working with. Read on for small garden design tips for the city dweller, based on advice from the pros and our favorite essential tools on the market.

10 Farmhouse Landscaping Ideas to Create a Colorful, Welcoming Yard

A variety of farmhouse landscaping ideas can bring a touch of that simple beauty and utilitarian practicality to any yard. Even if your house is not technically a farmhouse design, you can still use these design elements to add appeal to your landscape,
TreeHugger

Garden Design Ideas for Fire-Prone Areas

Smart landscaping choices are essential in areas with wildfire risk. We all know that wildfires are an increasingly common concern in many parts of the world, even in areas where they have not been an issue before. You may be considering fire safety for ...
Forbes

15 Fresh Vegetable Garden Ideas To Try This Year

Lauren is a writer and architectural designer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to being a writer at Forbes, she works as a freelance architectural designer specializing in residential design. Through her work, she hopes to bring greate..
Architectural Digest

15 Vertical Garden Ideas, From Living Walls to Botanical Libraries

Not only do they look striking—as proven by the 15 vertical garden ideas below—living walls can actually make you healthier, both physically and mentally. Research has shown that air-purifying green walls in office spaces have improved workers’ skin ...
TreeHugger

Ideas for Designing a Sunken Garden

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small ...
Iowa Public Radio

The basics of garden design

Designing your garden can be as simple as taking a photo and dreaming up ideas. Once you have an idea in mind, you can start planning which seeds and plants you'll bring to your space. This content originally appeared in IPR's Garden Variety newsletter ...
Architectural Digest

16 Backyard Vegetable Garden Ideas for Beginners

If you’re on the hunt for vegetable garden ideas, look no further. Sowing vegetable garden ideas is an easy DIY project—whether it’s an herb garden or an edible flower garden—and you don’t have to have a green thumb to be successful. Still ...