The appeal of cottage backyard ideas are rooted in their informal charm: brimming with color, texture, fragrance, and romantic blooms, they are a sanctuary for people and wildlife alike. Cottage ...

Cottage gardens are charming, quaint, and lush with greenery. They are dominated by flowers and foliage, and—unlike their formal English garden cousins—cottage gardens are meant to be a compact, ...

English/Cottage Garden Style Blossoming in popularity during the Elizabethan era (1558–1603), English or cottage gardens are ...

Tranquility is a hot commodity during a pandemic, and it may be as close as your backyard or patio. No matter the size of your space or your budget, a backyard or patio garden, particularly one that ...

David and Jeanie Stiles are renowned builders and authors of 23 books on woodworking projects. In Backyard Building, (The Countryman Press, 2014) the couple shows readers how to make that patch of ...

I learned this lesson the hard way after Ellison and the Nature in My Backyard team visited my struggling native garden late last summer. After offering their sympathy for my ongoing struggle with ...

The first garden I actually designed was inspired by a book: “English Cottage Gardening for American Gardeners” by Margaret Hensel. Hobbled by a leg cast for six months, I spent the winter of 1992-93 ...

Beth Peters and Adam Lougee had been together for more than six years when they decided that she should sell her Burlington condo and move into his Shelburne house. Both were eager to take the next ...

The townhouse at 10 Bedford St. in the West Village, which has a charming brick carriage house in its backyard, just listed for $7.99 million. Compass A historic townhouse in Manhattan’s West Village ...

Last spring, deluged by six weeks of rain, David Crawford’s backyard was a pit of mud and clay. There was a trench carved down the roughly 150-foot lot, outside the two-bedroom house he and his wife ...