The natural and sustainable gardening movement is all the rage the days, and for good reason. Gardens represent a golden opportunity to cre...

Was the Father of American Landscape Architecture also the Father of Temperate Tropicality? One of the many trends in garden design these...

Rising Star Yu Kongjian’s Radical Vision Design firm Turenscape in concert with Peking University Graduate School of Landscape Architect...

Never thought of your garden as a wildlife preserve?  Well, it may be time.  The statistics about human impact on nature are grim.  Conside...

Angie Lewin is the artist for the green revolution.  Not since William Morris has an artist combined patterned abstraction with horticultur...

The Dangerous and Seductive World of Phytochemicals Among my many plant obsessions, growing and cooking with herbs and spices is one my f...

Restoring the Majestic Chestnuts to Appalachia Once the king of the eastern forests, the American Chestnut tree was devastated by blight ...

An Earth Day Challenge to Gardeners and Designers "Do gardens have to be so tame, so harnessed, so unfree? What's new about our N...

I have always been drawn to abstract expressionism, both artistically and philosophically.  Art critic Harold Rosenburg described the genre ...

The Schoneberger Sudgelande Nature Park in Germany Parks in America are the latest casualty to interest-group politics. The park designer ...

Why Rotterdam’s Theater Square Represents a Turning Point for Urban Design Art history rarely recognizes a masterpiece in its time. And n...