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Interior designer Lucien Rees Roberts and his partner, architect Steven Harris, bought an island paradise in Croatia. This is the story of how they, along with landscape architect David Kelly, transformed an overgrown property into an amazing summer home with timeless Mediterranean views.

Spring Spree

By Melissa Feldman

Looking for some new furniture or accessories to spruce up your back yard this summer? Here are some new grills, firelights, dishes (above), and chairs that are perfect for summer entertaining.

Art & Botany: A Floral Carpet in Brussels

By Anna Laurent

For the last forty years, landscape architects in Brussels have installed a colorful public exhibit—an enormous carpet of begonias on the cobblestone square at Grand-Palace. This year's inaguration will be on August 15th, and the begonias will be on display through the 19th.

Gorgeous Garden Sheds from Chelsea Garden Show 2012

By Anna Laurent

As inspiration during the winter months while your garden sleeps and you prepare for spring, here are photos from the 2012 RHS Chelsea Garden Show's exhibit of "Artisan Retreats"—gorgeous garden sheds that bring the outside in, without even leaving the garden.

Bellflower 'Champion Pink'

By Jenny Andrews

An award-winning collection of Canterbury bells (Campanula medium), the Champion Series includes pink, blue, light blue, white and lavender. Though the species is biennial, this series can be grown from seed as an annual, blooming the first year, with upward-facing bell-shaped flowers more than an inch long. Each plant can have up to 10 stems, 2 to 4 feet tall. soquelnursery.com

Best Hotel Gardens: Palazzo Parisi

By Emily Young

Located in Oliveto, Reiti, Italy

The Best Mail-Order Plant Sources

By Lindsey Taylor

Our favorite sources for mail order succulents, orchids, mosses, and other rare plants.

Botanic Superlatives: The Most Imitated Plant

By Anna Laurent

As anyone who's emerged from a forest stroll with a sleeve covered in burdock burrs will agree, the wonderful story of Velcro's genesis is too familiar to be apocryphal.

Inventing the Modern Garden: The Miller House and Garden

By Ted Loos

The Miller House, designed by Eero Saarinen, has a landmark Modernist garden designed by Dan Kiley. This month, May 2011, the house and garden are opening to the public for tours for the first time in 50 years, allowing visitors to walk through this triumph of mid-century Modern design.

Notes from a Flower Farm: Growing and Arranging Sweet Peas

By Katherine Anderson

In our latest column from Marigold and Mint, Katherine Anderson shows how to plant and harvest sweet peas (including how to create a lattice wall) and how to arrange these delicate flowers into sassy summer centerpieces.