If you live in an arid landscape, or wish you did, perhaps building a knot garden is the best way to transform your back yard. The knot garden came into being in Tudor, England, during the time when ...

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 ...

Tudor England, a period that spanned 1485 to 1603, gave us William Shakespeare and English conquests in the New World. Rulers like Henry VIII and Elizabeth I made England a European power. The Tudor ...

hen Julie Podolny Lackey made plans to wed her longtime fiancé, Joel Lackey, this summer, she decided it was time to tie the knot symbolically as well as literally. So she created a knot garden in the ...

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 ...

Knots, which tie shoes, boats and even men and women, also serve to elegantly connect gardeners with the soil. The living works of art known as knot gardens can test a gardener's mettle, particularly ...

Several centuries ago French and English landscapers began using designs of fellow weavers and patternmakers. But instead of fiber, they picked plants to create their intricate knot gardens. The ...