Garden Design

What type of garden is appropriate for your historic home’s style? Here you’ll find advice for garden design in numerous complementary styles, such as ornamental gardens, Georgian style, Federal style, Greek Revival, and more.

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Colonial & Colonial Revival Garden Design

Colonial gardens, like those found in Williamsburg, VA, were uncomplicated, practical, and nostalgic. Take a look at 200 years in the garden and learn how to create your own.

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Taming an Inherited Garden

You may be lucky enough to buy an old house with an established garden to match. That could become the starting point of a beautiful landscape, but the surviving plants might be a mixed blessing.

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Medieval Garden Inspiration from The Cloisters

In a monastery, the cloister is a courtyard or quadrangle surrounded by walls and especially by covered walks. These medieval gardens provide inspiration for those with period revival houses, or for courtyards or covered walks.

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Creating a Colonial Garden

Spanning nearly three centuries, colonial gardens encompass a wide variety of styles—which means tailoring a period-appropriate aesthetic to fit your needs has never been easier.

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A Modern Landscape Designed by Students

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How To Grow Vines on Buildings

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A Farm Reinvented

A professional landscape designer takes on the challenge of revamping a garden for a centuries-old working farm.

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3 Iconic & Inspiring Historic Gardens

Three historic gardens inspire and guide landscape design for the new old house.

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A New Landscape for an 18th-century House

Adopting an orphaned, 18th-century house was just the beginning of lovely garden rooms.

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Lessons from the Woodrow Wilson Garden

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Driveways & Walks for Historic Homes

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7 Antebellum Gardens to Visit

Take a look at 7 Antebellum gardens around the country.

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Heirloom Nursery Directory

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Primroses in the Old-House Garden

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Best Hydrangeas for Historic Gardens

Hydrangeas come in a variety of colors and sizes making them a great way to spruce up any historic garden.

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A Mission Garden

The hilly, unkempt site wasn’t his first choice, but Jim Bishop used its limitations to create a stunning, low-water landscape with rock-strewn dry streambeds, tile-decorated garden rooms, potted succulents, and meandering steps.

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