Luscious, romantic and inviting, English gardens are all the rage in garden design. You’ll find English-style gardens all over the world, across many climate zones and landscape types. As it happens, ...

The English landscape style, born in Britain 250 years ago, can help us design our own gardens today. The style was influenced by popular paintings of pastoral landscapes. It re-created classical ...

For Sherman Oaks-based designer Karen Tandy, interior and exterior design work together in creating an inviting home base. “They work hand in hand,” Tandy says. “People need to look at a home’s ...

Classic English house gardens fall out of favor for more idyllic countryside settings. Classic English house gardens fall out of favor for more idyllic countryside settings in a cyclical fashion. Now ...

After celebrating “Capability” Brown’s tercentenary so thoroughly in 2016, it seems appropriate to look at gardens made before his time, places that he is often accused of having wiped from the face ...

If you've ever wandered around an English stately home and its magnificent gardens, you will have noticed there is something worth gawking at at every turn. Each flower bed carefully stewarded to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan’s new book is, as befits its subject, a glorious cabinet of ...

For some years, Tim Richardson was the gardens editor at Country Life, which he describes here as 'a magazine conceived in the mould of the Whig ideal of a cultivated rural retirement'. He was also ...