A large, intricate knot garden with hedges, trees, and flowers within it - Clay Perry/Getty Images Knot gardens have a long history stretching back to Medieval times but really hit their stride during ...

High summer is no time for revamping the yard; that requires the freshness of spring. No, what's called for now is the small-scale project, something that demands more artistry than energy, more ...

Walls that surrounded medieval monastic gardens imposed their geometry upon the planted beds within. The beds usually were rectangular, and they were divided into more rectangles or other geometric ...

“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt. Did you return from a European tour of chateau gardens, obsessed with formal knot gardens? Have you ...

Visit Tudor Place in Georgetown this weekend and you might have to rethink the rose as a bloom of summer. The pink hybrid teas are beginning to burst into bloom in the knot garden behind the house, a ...