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When it comes to design—as long as your roof can bear the load of furniture, foot traffic, and plantings—the sky’s the limit

Osmocote® Presents: Osteospermum Summertime Series

By Jenny Andrews

From German grower Dümmen comes a cornucopia of fruit-inspired African daisies, with tasty names like Blueberry and Cranberry. Purple and fuchsia petals have an iridescent look, with dark violet-blue centers. Typically used as an annual.

Viola Velour Frosted Chocolate

By Jenny Andrews

I just can't help it – I love brown flowers. Maybe it's the irony; maybe I just have a thing for the color brown. But the malted-milkshake, silvery tones of Velour Frosted Chocolate are on another plane. Part of an award-winning series from Floranova, the flowers in this dainty little one are a bit smaller than its brethren, less than an inch across, with a shape more akin to wild violets. Blooms profusely on compact plants, fall and spring.

Echeveria 'Perle von Nürnberg'

By Jenny Andrews

For unusual muted shades, landscape designer Stephen Suzman likes to use Echeveria ‘Afterglow’ (powdery pinkish lavender) and E. ‘Perle von Nürnberg’, pictured (grayish brown with a pinkish mauve tinge). Both form rosettes of overlapping leaves, 1 foot across for ‘Afterglow’, 5 to 6 inches for ‘Perle von Nürnberg’. provenwinners.com

Travel Guide for Victorian Gardens

By Victoria Ross

Spectacular greenhouses and an authentic six-acre Victorian walled garden are just some of the sights that you can still visit today as examples of Victorian gardening.

My Garden: Call Of The Wild

By Bob and Carolyn Groves

A weekend home in the high desert of central Oregon can only be reached by means of an old lifeboat! PLUS: New, web-only photos!

Deborah Needleman's Garden, Slide Show

By Cynthia Kling

Our exclusive photographs of Deborah Needleman's garden, in Garrison, New York.

Anna Schuleit's Bloom

By Claire Lui

Anna Schuleit's 2003 piece Bloom installed 28,000 potted flowers in the Massachussetts Mental Health Center before it closed.

Harmony House, a Garden Makeover

By Susan Heeger

Four years ago, musician Nate Mendel bought a house in the Los Angeles hills surrounded by a scrappy lawn and a few big trees. Mendel felt certain it could be transformed into a welcoming home base.

Catalpa x erubescens 'Purpurea'

By Jenny Andrews

New leaves on this Indian bean tree emerge wine colored to chocolate, segueing to green in summer. White flowers are lavender-tinged. Though it can reach 40 to 50 feet tall and wide, it can be pruned hard to keep it shrubby. Zones 5-9. forestfarm.com