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, ...

English garden ideas have evolved from the classic combination of smartly clipped hedges, romantic meandering paths and lushly planted drifts of flowers that's known around the world, to embrace a ...

A formal garden sounds grand and imposing, evoking images of huge, impeccably manicured gardens attached to European palaces. But what if we told you that anyone can have a formal garden, even in a ...

When the telephone caller who had interrupted her breakfast identified himself as the Prince of Wales, she retorted somewhat naturally, “Are you joking?” He was not. It really was Britain’s Prince ...

Not far from northern Kent’s famous marshes grows an English garden with an attitude, romantic at first glance but liberated upon close examination. Golden boxwood swirls punctuate a parterre like ...

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 ...

Tracy Pollina felt right at home the first time she saw the Greek Revival–style Barrington Hills house, with its cedar shake roof, copper-trimmed bay window, and large yard shaded by towering trees.

With their classic hedges and bounteous blooms, traditional English-style gardens remain a popular perennial in the formal landscapes of stately estates around the world. “A truly romantic English ...