Gardening, Park & Landscape Architecture Resources

• 5 terrifying plants that will probably give you nightmares - The Telegraph.
• 6 extraordinary gardens around the world - "From a warm, lush haven of native plants to a wind-swept shoreline patch, gardens have the potential to nurture, educate and enchant us. The exhibition Garden Futures shows how, writes Cath Pound."
• 8 ways indoor plants can improve your home - "From tiny terrariums to tiger-print statements, houseplants can enhance any interior. Dominic Lutyens asks 'plantfluencers' for their top tips and tricks."
• 10 of the best gardens in Europe you’ve probably never heard of - "From Amsterdam to Athens, these beautiful unsung spaces exhibit a riot of colour, elegant design, history and tranquility."
• 10 of the best public gardens in Italy - The Guardian.
• 10 Of The World's Best Parks For Enjoying Spring Weather - Business Insider.
• 12 stunning buildings that bring nature inside - "Think of the great Victorian planner Ebenezer Howard, who believed that nature could cure the ills of city life - pollution, disease, and overcrowding. In 1898, he laid out his vision for a 'Garden City,' where even the poorest worker could enjoy green spaces, which were painfully unavailable in his London."
• 14 Gardens Every Design Lover Must See in Person - "Architectural Digest ADPRO tapped experts to name the most inspiring gardens around the world that have influenced their work—here’s what came back."
• 15 Stunning Hotel Gardens - "Gardens have a way of nourishing your soul. Maybe it’s the floral-tinged fresh air, the sight of blooming gardenias and cherry blossoms or the soothing sounds of a trickling stream that makes you feel closer to nature, even when the space is in the midst of a city landscape. Or perhaps it’s simply that they provide a peaceful oasis during the most hectic of times."
• 20 cruises to the world's most beautiful gardens - The Telegraph.
• 20 great British winter gardens to visit before spring - The Telegraph.
• 20 most magical places to see spring flowers - The Telegraph.
• 20 of the best gardens to visit for spring flowers - The Telegraph.
• 22 of the best places to see snowdrops in Britain - The Telegraph.
• 24 Homes with the most gorgeous gardens to rival Chelsea Flower Show - The Telegraph.
• 25 of the most unlikely green spaces around the world - The Telegraph.
• A botanical wonder of the world: Uncovering the giant waterlily - "A plant giant has been named new to science at Kew after spending 177 years hidden under the surface of our collections."
• A Complete Beginner's Guide to Home Gardening - "Gardening is a terrific hobby on so many levels. It provides physical activity for those of any age, and a wonderful learning experience for younger growers. Gardeners stay better connected to nature and enjoy fresh air more often. The key to true enjoyment of a garden is deciding on your goal and reasons for wanting one. Is it to have a sense of accomplishment or have fresh flowers? Is it to grow your own fruits or vegetables? Perhaps it's to have a hobby you can share with other family members or friends."
• A Lisbon Home With a Vertical Garden - The New York Times.
• A new Shakespeare plot: garden of Bard’s daughter to be recreated - "Remedies used by healer Susanna Hall and her doctor husband will be planted at Stratford home."
• A new world of gardening advice is opening up on social media - "Fancy having a go at bonsai? Look online."
• A Secret Section of Central Park Reopens - The New York Times.
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• AndrÉ Le NÔtre - (1613-1700). French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. Most notably, he was responsible for the design and construction of the park of the Palace of Versailles, and his work represents the height of the French formal garden style, or jardin À la franÇaise.
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• Anna Wintour’s Wild Garden - "A stroll through the editor’s romantic and meandering 40 acres - cultivated over the last 20 years by her friend, the landscape designer Miranda Brooks."
• Arboretum - in a general sense is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees. More commonly a modern arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants and is intended at least in part for scientific study.
• Are Plants Intelligent? If So, What Does That Mean for Your Salad? - "A new book, 'The Light Eaters,' looks at how plants sense the world and the agency they have in their own lives."
• Bare walls can be an eyesore. Here’s what to plant to soften & hide them - "We can’t keep ripping up and starting again just because something offends our aesthetic sensibilities."
• Beatrix Farrand - (1872-1959). American landscape gardener and landscape architect. Her career included commissions to design about 110 gardens for private residences, estates and country homes, public parks, botanic gardens, college campuses, and the White House. Only a few of her major works survive: Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden on Mount Desert, Maine, the restored Farm House Garden in Bar Harbor, the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden (constructed after Farrand's death, using her original plans, and opened in 1988), and elements of the campuses of Princeton, Yale, and Occidental.
• Beauty breeds obsession: the fight to save orchids from a lethal black market - "Behind the scenes of its 20th orchid show, the New York Botanical Garden toils to rescue endangered plants."
• best new gardening gear - in pictures - "Get your garden ready for spring with the pick of the crop of new tools."
• Bloomsbury Group: Britain's most stunning bohemian gardens - "An exhibition at London's Garden Museum reveals the vital role nature played in the lives and work of Britain's radical creative collective, the Bloomsbury Group."
• Bosquet - in the French formal garden, a bosquet is a formal plantation of trees, at least five of identical species planted as a quincunx, or set in strict regularity as to rank and file, so that the trunks line up as one passes along either face.
• Botanical garden - Wikipedia.
• Bunny Mellon - (1910-2014). American horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector. She designed and planted a number of significant gardens, including the White House Rose Garden, and assembled one of the largest collections of rare horticultural books.
• Can a garden last 1,000 years? - "How long can a garden last? Even when they're utterly forgotten, gardens can be surprisingly resilient."
• Capability Brown's most amazing landscapes - The Telegraph.
• Capability Brown, the Master of the English Garden - The New York Times.
• CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW | Great Spring Show - garden show held each year on five days in May by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in Chelsea, London, U.K. Perhaps the most famous gardening event in the world and part of London's summer social season. The Chelsea Flower Show has been held in the grounds of the Chelsea Hospital, London every year since 1913, apart from gaps during the two World Wars. It used to be Britain's largest flower show (it has now been overtaken by RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show), but is still the most prestigious.
• Chelsea Flower Show: 100 years in pictures - The Telegraph.
• Chelsea Flower Show: houses with the most incredible gardens - The Telegraph.
• Chelsea Flower Show 2016: Best in Show and the medal winners in pictures - The Telegraph.
• Chinese garden - Wikipedia.
• Conservatory - Wikipedia.
• Cutting Garden - area of the garden with flowers that are suitable and intended for a table arrangement.
• Documents say more about how iRobot’s new Terra lawnmower will autonomously mow your lawn - "We dug up more about Roomba maker iRobot’s first autonomous lawnmower. The twin-bladed Terra is expected to arrive in 2020."
• Doorstep delights: why front gardens matter - "A place to socialise, an oasis for wildlife, a gift to our neighbours - a front garden can be all of these things."
• Dubai Miracle Garden - flower garden located in the district of Dubailand. The garden was launched on Valentine's Day in 2013. The garden occupies over 72,000 square metres (780,000 sq ft), making it the world's largest natural flower garden featuring over 50 million flowers and 250 million plants.
• Dutch garden - distinguished by its dense atmosphere and efficient use of space. On an international level, a garden with tulips is also easily labelled as a Dutch garden.
• EK Janaki Ammal: The 'nomad' flower scientist India forgot - "'Janaki was not just a cytogeneticist - she was a field biologist, a plant geographer, a palaeobotanist, an experimental breeder and an ethno-botanist and not in the least, an explorer,' says Dr Savithri Preetha Nair, a historian who has researched the scientist's life for years."
• English landscape garden - style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe, replacing the more formal, symmetrical jardin à la française of the 17th century as the principal gardening style of Europe. The English garden presented an idealized view of nature.
• Everything you need to know about Capability Brown - The Telegraph.
• Exotic gardens that will banish the winter blues - The Telegraph.
• Explore 'Capability' Brown's landscape gardens - National Trust.
• Fatal attraction: rare corpse flower draws hundreds of onlookers - "More than 1,000 people have flocked to an abandoned gas station in the San Francisco Bay Area to get a whiff of a corpse flower, named for the stench it emits when it blooms, which has been compared to rotting flesh."
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• Folly - in architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of garden ornaments usually associated with the class of buildings to which it belongs.
• formal garden - garden with a clear structure, geometric shapes and in most cases a symmetrical layout.
• Frederick Law Olmsted - (1822-1903). American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture. Famous for co-designing many well-known urban parks with his senior partner Calvert Vaux, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City, the George Washington Vanderbilt II Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, as well as Elm Park (Worcester, Massachusetts), considered by many to be the first municipal park in America.
• French formal garden - also called jardin à la française.
• French landscape garden - Wikipedia.
• From low-growers to bright fountains, ornamental grasses have your garden covered - "With more grasses to choose from every year, new and unusual varieties are the key to transforming sparse flower beds."
• Garden - Wikipedia.
• Garden Bridge, London vs. Pier 55, New York: why do New York and London think so differently? - The Guardian.
• Gardening - Wikipedia.
• Gardens of the French Renaissance - Wikipedia.
• Gardens of the galaxy: can you grow vegetables on Mars? - "With a mission to Mars on the horizon and astronauts spending longer than ever in orbit, scientists are looking for ways to grow vegetables in space ..."
• gardenvisit.com - "The garden landscape guide." With over 10,000 pages of text and 10,000 images.
• Giardino all'italiana - or Italian garden is stylistically based on symmetry, axial geometry and on the principle of imposing order over nature. It influenced the history of gardening, especially French gardens and English gardens.
• Grandi Giardini Italiani - "Discover the network of the most beautiful gardens created in Italy!"
• Greenhouse - Wikipedia.
• Hampton Court Palace Flower Show - the largest flower show in the world. The Show is held in early July, and run by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) at Hampton Court Palace in southwest London. The show features show gardens, floral marquees and pavilions, talks and demonstrations. Erected on the north and south sides of the Long Water in Hampton Court Park, it is the second major national show after the Chelsea Flower Show but has a different character, focusing more on environmental issues, growing your own food and vegetables and cookery, while also offering opportunities to buy gardening accessories, plants and flowers.
• Henry Hoare - (1705–1785), known as Henry the Magnificent, was an English banker and garden owner-designer. 'The first landscape gardener, who showed in a single work, genius of the highest order.'
• Houseplants Can Make You Healthier - "You don’t need a green thumb to reap the benefits. Indoor green spaces, even small ones, have benefits for our physical and mental well-being, too. Viewing nature indoors, one review of the scientific literature suggested, can lower your heart rate and blood pressure. The presence of plants in a hospital room has been shown to reduce pain and anxiety in patients."
• How a husband-and-wife duo salvaged West Dean gardens - The Telegraph.
• how Capability Brown transformed this green & pleasant land - "The 300th anniversary of ‘Capability’ Brown’s birth is the ideal time to hail the design and horticultural genius who reshaped far more than the contours of our national landscape."
• How Do You Create a Container Garden? Start Here - "From the choice and arrangement of your pots to how you think about what goes in them, one garden designer has some advice for you."
• How Do You Fit 250 Plants in 350 Square Feet? - An interior designer who has made a career out of maximizing space in tiny homes has the answer.
• how gardening helps me find peace - "Our columnist, thanks to an elderly neighbour, fell into tending her garden and has not stopped reaping the fruits of her labours in terms of mind, body and soul."
• How to Become a Plant Parent - The New York Times.
• How to Create the Perfect Green Space - "Instagram plant culture can be intimidating. In his new book, 'Wild at Home,' Hilton Carter shares some tips on how anyone - even a novice - can incorporate plants into their lives."
• How to grow a quarantine garden when you’re tight on space - "If you've got a window sill, you can start a garden."
• How to Read the Tree Leaves - "A little knowledge of botany can be helpful, even if you’re an amateur gardener. Here are a few things you should know about what happens in the fall."
• How To Use The Color Wheel To Design The Perfect Colorful Garden - "The secret to creating a visually stunning and beautiful garden doesn't require any particular expertise. It simply requires you to reflect on a tool you have probably known about since kindergarten: the color wheel!"
• Humphry Repton - (1752-1818) was the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown.
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• Ian McEwan’s Enchanted Garden - "In the hills of southwest England, the writer and his wife, the novelist Annalena McAfee, have surrounded their home with untamed delight."
• 'Imagine using liquid water': why people water their house plants with ice cubes - "Often touted as an easy solution to overwatering, the practice of placing ice cubes in orchids has become a ‘comedy horticultural moment’."
• Indoor plant with four leaves sells for $8,000 in New Zealand - "A buyer was willing to part with huge sum to secure the variegated minima amid a houseplant boom fuelled by the pandemic. Houseplants have become especially popular among millennials, experts say, many of whom are unable to nurture babies or pets due to financial and property constraints."
• Inside the 17th century Versailles vegetable garden - The Telegraph.
• Inside the new National Trust gardens - The Telegraph.
• Italian Renaissance garden - Wikipedia.
• ‘It would survive nuclear Armageddon’: should plastic grass be banned? - "Artificial lawns are more popular than ever - but they are also an environmental nightmare. Will the campaign to stop them be successful?"
• Italy's latest weapon against overtourism - "The Italian gardens hoping to change tourism."
• Jacques GrÉber - (1882-1962). French architect specializing in landscape architecture and urban design. He was a strong proponent of the Beaux-Arts style and a contributor to the City Beautiful movement, particularly in Philadelphia and Ottawa.
• Japan's cherry blossom season: Trip of a Lifetime - The Telegraph.
• Japanese garden - Wikipedia.
• Jardin du Luxembourg - Wikipedia.
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• Joseph Paxton - (1803-1865). English gardener, architect and Member of Parliament, best known for designing The Crystal Palace. The 6th Duke of Devonshire offered the 20-year-old Paxton the position of Head gardener at Chatsworth, which was considered one of the finest landscaped gardens of the time. One of his first projects was to redesign the garden around the new north wing of the house and to set up a 'pinetum', a collection of conifers which developed into a 40-acre arboretum which still exists. In the process he became skilled in moving even mature trees. While at Chatsworth Gardens, he built enormous fountains: The Emperor Fountain in 1844 was twice the height of Nelson's Column, which required the creation of the Emperor Lake on the hill top above the gardens, and the excavation of 100,000 cubic yards of earth.
• Kensington Palace Opens a Garden Dedicated to Princess Diana - "Earlier today, Kensington Palace opened a garden dedicated to the late Princess Diana. The White Garden, as it is being called, will stay open to the public free of charge until September of this year to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Diana’s death. Princess Diana, of course, died in a Paris car accident on August 31, 1997."
• Kitchen garden - Wikipedia.
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• Lachaume - since 1845. "Maître fleuriste since 1845." Lachaume has little changed since the time of Marcel Proust who came daily to decorate his buttonhole with a fresh cattleya. 103, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, France.
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• Lancelot 'Capability' Brown - (1716-1783). English landscape architect. He is remembered as "the last of the great English eighteenth-century artists to be accorded his due", and "England's greatest gardener". He designed over 170 parks, many of which still endure.
• Landscape architecture - Wikipedia.
• Lawrence W. Johnston - (1871-1958). "as a British garden designer and plantsman. He was the owner and designer of two influential gardens - Hidcote Manor Garden in Britain and Jardin Serre de la Madone in France."
• Learn Simple & Efficient Gardening - Gardening Mentor.
• List of botanical gardens - Wikipedia.
• List of botanical gardens in France - Wikipedia.
• List of gardens - Wikipedia.
• List of landscape gardens - Wikipedia.
• List of parks - Wikipedia.
• List of remarkable gardens of France - Wikipedia.
• London's best secret gardens - The Telegraph.
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• Madison Cox Associates - since 2000. "Madison Cox is a world-renown garden designer raised in San Francisco and Marin County, California. As a garden designer and author of books about gardens, Cox has traveled extensively across the United States, Europe and North Africa as well as Japan, China, Russia, India and Australia. Majorelle Garden in Marrakech, which Mr Cox runs as president of the Fondation Jardin Majorelle. His clients include the hotelier Mr Ian Schrager, businessman and politician Mr Michael Bloomberg and the late Princess Marella Agnelli, wife of the Fiat chairman Mr Gianni Agnelli. "
• Mannerism - style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, lasting until about 1580 in Italy. Stylistically, Mannerism encompasses a variety of approaches influenced by, and reacting to, the harmonious ideals associated with artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and early Michelangelo. Where High Renaissance art emphasizes proportion, balance, and ideal beauty, Mannerism exaggerates such qualities, often resulting in compositions that are asymmetrical or unnaturally elegant.
• Marian Cruger Coffin - (1876-1957). One of the first American women to work as a professional landscape architect, and became famous for designing numerous gardens for members of the East Coast elite to whom she had connections through her mother's side of the family.
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• Maryon Park - urban public park located in Charlton in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, England, U.K. The park was the filming location of key scenes in Blowup (1966), a drama mystery-thriller film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring David Hemmings, Sarah Miles and Vanessa Redgrave. The park is little changed since the making of the film.
• Melania Trump announces Rose Garden renovation - "Trump intends to restore the space to more resemble the original design and formation of the Rose Garden, established by President John F. Kennedy, and implemented in 1962 by horticulturist and philanthropist Rachel 'Bunny' Mellon. The renovation, which will include excavation, could take several weeks, according to a source familiar with the timeline, and the Rose Garden will, during that time, be out of commission for use."
• Michele Canzio - (1788–1868). Was an Italian architect and painter, best known as stage designer for the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. He also designed a remarkable garden at the Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini.
• Millennials' houseplant habit has a hidden environmental toll - "How green is your Pinterest-perfect plant collection? Just how green is your greenery? It seems logical that more plants should be beneficial for the environment - after all, they produce the oxygen we breathe. But recent research has shown that houseplants don't do as much in terms of improving air quality as initially believed. And they do have a toll on the planet, belied by their eco-friendly appearance."
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• Miranda Brooks Landscape Design - since 2008. Landscape Architect. American Vogue Contributing Editor. "Whether she’s creating Chiltern Firehouse’s front courtyard in London or Anna Wintour’s Long Island garden, landscape designer Miranda Brooks’s design philosophy could not be clearer: 'To work with the land and nature with a deep understanding of and sympathy to its character; to connect the architecture to the natural world; to create a strong sense of place,' she said. - Architectural Digest, November 29, 2022."
• Moroccan Garden of One Man’s Dreams - "In the rough countryside of northern Morocco the writer and horticulturist Umberto Pasti has created Rohuna, his garden, which is nothing less than autobiography writ from earth and flora."
• National Cherry Blossom Festival - spring celebration in Washington, D.C., commemorating the March 27, 1912, gift of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City to the city of Washington.
• 'Nature survives in the tiniest corners': the City of London's wild heart - "The Barbican is famous for its Brutalist architecture, but the concrete conceals a well-kept secret: a community garden where wildlife thrives."
• New Digital Guide Honors Pioneer of Landscape Architecture Frederick Law Olmsted - "Celebrating the bicentennial of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., known as 'the father of landscape architecture', the Cultural Landscape Foundation has created an ever-growing digital guide of Olmsted’s most notable works. The illustrated guide features more than 300 landscapes throughout North America, including Canada and 30 U.S. States, along with stories by practitioners who worked for, with, or were otherwise associated with Olmsted, Sr. and his successor firms."
• New York’s Secret Garden - "What Do Anna Wintour and Bob Dylan Have in Common? This Secret Garden."
• New Zealand houseplant sells for $19,200 in online bidding war - "Bids for the 'very rare white variegated Rhaphidophora Tetrasperma' closed Sunday night, rising in the last four minutes as bidder 'foliage_patch' battled the eventual winner, tagged 'meridianlamb'."
• Nigel Slater: ‘I feel as if my garden has finally come of age’ - "After 20 years, three incarnations and some hedge heartbreak, Nigel Slater at long last has his perfect sanctuary - and without a blade of grass in sight."
• Olmsted - What's out there Cultural Landscapes Guide - "The What’s Out There Olmsted guide from The Cultural Landscape Foundation derives from our profusely illustrated and extensively researched What’s Out There database of significant landscapes, collected by geographic region, coupled with maps and overarching historical narratives."
• Orangery - Wikipedia.
• Paris agrees to turn Champs-ÉlysÉes into 'extraordinary garden' - "Mayor Anne Hidalgo gives green light to £225m-scheme to transform French capital’s most famous avenue."
• Parisians angry as trees in famous cinema's Japanese garden cut down - "Property magnate Charles Cohen’s €8m renovation of La Pagode branded a ‘massacre’."
• Park - Wikipedia.
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• Parrot Connected Garden - "The flowerpot that tends to your plants while you're away!" The Parrot Pot is a smart flowerpot that helps your plants flourish. The self-watering system and four built-in sensors monitor your plant around the clock. It's gardening made easy!
• Perfect plants to boost your wellbeing - "There are huge benefits to be gained from spending time in and around plants. Here are four rules to make the most of it."
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• Pergola - garden feature forming a shaded walkway, passageway, or sitting area of vertical posts or pillars that usually support cross-beams and a sturdy open lattice, often upon which woody vines are trained.
• Perry Hunt Wheeler - (1913-1989). American landscape architect who is primarily known for several garden projects in Washington, D.C., including the White House Rose Garden.
• Plant Heritage - "Plant Heritage's (NCCPG's) mission is to conserve, grow, propagate, document and make available the amazing resource of cultivated plants that exists in the UK."
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• Pleasure ground - area of garden near to a building in landscape gardens of English style that, in contrast to the outlying park, stresses artistic elements over the more natural elements.
• Plotting the future: the ‘seed guardians’ bringing variety to UK gardens - "Gardeners in the UK are doing their bit to expand the range of plant seeds for a richer and more diverse future."
• Poland approves large-scale logging in Europe's last primeval forest - The Guardian.
• Pot-pourri is back, at up to £330 a sniff... - "After years in the doldrums, the once ubiquitous bowl of fragrant dried petals is making a comeback, at a very fancy price."
• Pots of gold: the world’s most expensive house plants - "With people paying upwards of £40,000, the rise of the ‘It plant’ has sparked a speculative frenzy not seen since tulipmania - and with it a green-fingered crimewave."
• Prince Charles plants a huge Union Jack-shaped vegetable garden at his £45m Scottish estate - "Coming shortly before the Scottish independence referendum of 2014, it was the subtlest of hints as to how the Queen felt about the matter. Now her son appears to have made his own, equally subtle plea for unity. New aerial photographs of Dumfries House in Scotland show that Prince Charles has used an elaborate planting scheme to portray the Union Flag in the carefully cultivated vegetable beds."
• Reflecting pool - water feature found in gardens, parks, and at memorial sites. It usually consists of a shallow pool of water, undisturbed by fountain jets, for a reflective surface.
• Remarkable Gardens of France - Wikipedia.
• Rose garden - Wikipedia.
• Russell Page - (1906-1985). British gardener, garden designer and landscape architect. He worked in the UK, western Europe and the United States of America. His clients included: Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor, Count Sanminiatelli San Liberato, King Leopold III of Belgium, Suzanna Walton, wife of Sir William Walton, Babe Paley and William S. Paley, Oscar de la Renta, Marcel Boussac, Olive, Lady Baillie, Gianni Agnelli, Baron and Baroness Thierry Van Zuylen van Nievelt, Frick Museum.
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• Sanderson Miller - (1716-1780). English pioneer of Gothic revival architecture and landscape designer. He is noted for adding follies or other Picturesque garden buildings and features to the grounds of an estate.
• Segway's robot mower uses GPS to stay on your lawn - "There's no need to install a perimeter wire with the Navimow."
• Shopping for Watering Cans - "The best watering cans are not only useful, but nice to look at, too. The real challenge may be choosing just one."
• Should people get rid of their garden lawns? - "Perfectly manicured lawns have been status symbols for centuries. Many of us create or maintain lawns in our gardens without giving it a second thought. But could these innocent patches of greenery be a colossal waste of space?"
• six clever ways to keep cut flowers alive - The Telegraph.
• The ancient French town of floating gardens - "Carved out of the River Somme's marshy hinterland, the Hortillonnages is made up of 110km of slender canals that have led Amiens to be dubbed "the Venice of the North"."
• The best Chinese gardens to visit - The Telegraph.
• The British maze revival: why getting lost can help you find yourself - The Telegraph.
• The future of urban gardens - The Telegraph.
• The Garden Villa - Aamer Architects.
• The How-on-Earth Garden - The New York Times.
• The influencers of pandemic gardening - "As people panic-bought seeds, TikTok and Instagram became their teachers."
• The Lost Gardens of Emily Dickinson - The New York Times.
• The lost generation of ancient trees - "Inside some of our most magnificent trees, miniature worlds are at risk of extinction. The race is on to accelerate trees' ageing process, so these intricate communities aren't lost forever."
• The meaning of leaf: an autumnal tour of England's arboretums - "Planted by specimen collectors in the 18th and 19th centuries, arboretums are a ‘living library of trees’ that have become an invaluable public resource for recreation and education."
• The people who believe plants can talk - "While many gardeners believe talking to their plants encourages them to grow, there is a war of words in the scientific world about whether plants are listening, or even talking back."
• The power of your garden's hidden half - "The evolution of roots transformed life on Earth - and understanding them could help us to grow more resilient plants."
• The public garden growing deadly plants - "The Poison Garden at the Alnwick Garden in Northumberland, England, is home to more than 100 toxic, intoxicating and narcotic plants. And it's open to public."
• The race to recreate peat - "Is there a good alternative to peated compost? Harvesting peat is highly unsustainable - but gardeners love it. Could we replace it with something better?"
• The secret's out on London's most underrated park - The Telegraph.
• The waterlily that changed architecture - "An amazing true story of elegant structures, aquatic plants and the Crystal Palace."
• There’s Never Been a Better Time to Visit Amsterdam’s Breathtaking Gardens - "This year, there’s a particular wealth of green-fingered delights to be had in the city, in no small part thanks to the return of the Floriade Expo, an international horticulture exhibition which takes place every ten years, this time situated in the nearby town of Almere. And while the kaleidoscopic fields of the Bollenstreek (the flower-growing region just south of the city) and the breathtaking tulip gardens of Keukenhof are undeniably at their best during the spring, there’s a case to be made for the city as a year-round destination for horticulturalists."
• These Flower Subscription Services Will Keep Your Rooms in Bloom - "Perhaps the only thing lovelier than a floral bouquet on your coffee table or nightstand is a neverending supply of them, made possible by flower subscription services that will do all the work for you."
• This Is What It Sounds Like When Plants Cry - "Scientists recorded the popping noises that plants make in response to stresses like dehydration or a cut."
• To rethink your garden, learn Japanese - "Four key horticultural concepts from the people who brought us bonsai."
• Top 10 trees for gardens - "Can you identify them from their leaves?"
• Top 12 City Parks in the World - RatesToGo.
• top 30 garden restaurants & cafes - The Telegraph.
• Topiary - the horticultural practice of training live perennial plants by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees, shrubs and subshrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, perhaps geometric or fanciful.
• Tree of the week: ‘Generations of families have played under this willow tree’ - "Standing ‘like an elderly grandparent watching all the life around it’, a willow in Peterborough offers a symbol of calm in troubled times."
• Tree of the week: ‘Like the haunted figure in Munch’s The Scream, he reflects our times’ - "As I take my daily run, I always feel pleasure at the sight of this old sycamore, which despite his look of agonised vulnerability reminds me of strength and compassion."
• ‘Ugliest orchid in the world’ among 2020's new plant discoveries - "Kew Gardens botanists also named a new toadstool found at Heathrow airport and a bizarre scaly shrub from Namibia."
• Uncovering the giant waterlily: A botanical wonder of the world - "A plant giant has been named new to science at Kew after spending 177 years hidden under the surface of our collections."
• Urban Gardening: Grow amazing food in a limited space - GardeningMentor.
• Villa del Balbianello - villa in the comune of Lenno (province of Como). It is located on the tip of the small wooded peninsula of Dosso d'Avedo on the western shore of the south-west branch of Lake Como, 1500 meters east from the Isola Comacina. The villa is famous for its elaborate terraced gardens.
• ‘Walking’ forest of 1,000 trees transforms Dutch city - "Spectacle of leafy ash, oak and elm ambling through Leeuwarden’s streets offers vision of a greener future."
• Wardian case - was an early type of terrarium, a sealed protective container for plants. It found great use in the 19th century in protecting foreign plants imported to Europe from overseas, the great majority of which had previously died from exposure during long sea journeys, frustrating the many scientific and amateur botanists of the time. The Wardian case was the direct forerunner of the modern terrarium and vivarium and the inspiration for the glass aquarium.
• Watch the building of The Telegraph's Chelsea Flower Show garden from start to finish -The Telegraph.
• Water in view: the genius of Capability Brown - The Telegraph.
• What defines a proper garden? - "One of the most common put-downs I hear in horticulture is that something isn’t a 'proper garden'. As a botanist who studies our cultural relationship with plants, and a designer who has created gardens for the Chelsea Flower Show, I have yet to pinpoint what this term actually means. In the interests of getting it right, lets take a closer look."
• What is 'low-carbon gardening'? - "How to turn your garden into a carbon sink. From patches of wilderness to decomposing plants, turning your garden into a carbon sink isn’t just about adding lots of trees."
• Why Gardening Is So Good for You - "Digging holes can be a workout and mood booster all rolled into one."
• Why 'plant blindness' matters - and what you can do about it - "A phenomenon called 'plant blindness' means we tend to underappreciate the flora around us. That can have disastrous consequences not only for the environment, but human health."
• Why Superyacht Owners Are Planting Verdant Gardens on Their Boats - "From the practical to the aesthetic, the benefits of having a yacht garden are bountiful."
• World Naked Gardening Day - since 2005. Annual international event celebrated on the first Saturday of May by gardeners and non-gardeners alike.
• World Naked Gardening Day: gardeners around the globe strip off - The Telegraph.
• World's Best Parks, According To TripAdvisor Users - The Huffington Post.
• world's best 'secret' urban gardens - CNN travel.
• World's Most Beautiful City Parks - Travel + Leisure.
• world's most romantic gardens - The Telegraph.
• world's tallest vertical garden - "Imagine a 5.5 kilometer garden path (3.51 miles), about twice the length of New York's High Line, sprawling up the twisted façades of two towers, one of which rises more than 300 meters into the sky. That's what will greet visitors to STH BNK by Beulah - a new dual-tower 'greenscraper' complex planned for Melbourne that's set to include the tallest building in Australia when complete in 2028."
• Zen garden - aka Japanese rock garden.