FEATURES

 

Snake Bitten
Sometimes called snake plants and other times mother-inlaw's tongue, sansevierias are bulletproof — ideal for beginning gardeners and top-drawer designers alike, at home in the garden or indoors in planters.
By Jenny Andrews

 

California Dreamin'
When his client moved from the East Coast to San Rafael, California, and fell in love with an Eichler house, Davis Dalbok created the ultimate companion garden for it - complete with boldly colored and shaped plants, defined outdoor rooms and a midcentury spirit.

By Megan Padilla

 

A Pool by Jungle & Sea
The cascading jungle of Rio's hills are a dramatic backdrop to a contemporary pool garden designed by São Paulobased architect and landscape designer Paulo Pratti for this Brazilian getaway.

By Paula De La Cruz

 

Holding Court
Made Wijaya's glorious garden at Villa Kirana realizes a family's wish list for their fantasy of a Balinese landscape: a lush water garden, a dramatic classical Balinese garden and lots of interesting elements .
By Joanna Fortnam

 

On The Cover
Designed by Eric Groft of Oehme, van Sweden & Associates, this Southampton garden is not only stylish, it's sustainable.
Photography By Richard Felber.


DEPARTMENTS

 

Fresh Flora Grubb's living wall; Jenny Andrews loves Drimiopsis; One to Watch: Courtney McRickard; Philadelphia parks, nurseries and more.

 

Plant Palette Now seen in glowing new colors, calla lilies surely belong in the garden — and in vases and containers.

 

Style All these small things have big impact: spacesaving designs for the garden that pack a lot of punch.

 

Swatch Watch Textiles in elegant hues emanate a relaxing vibe in a garden room cast as a spalike sanctuary.

 

Garden Gourmet Is your garden space little more than a glorified patio? No matter. Your fully outfitted outdoor kitchen awaits.

 

Living Green A four-season, low-maintenance garden in the Hamptons showcases the signature style of Oehme, van Sweden & Associates.

 

Groundbreaker As a cross between New York City's industrial past and a synthesis of landscape architecture, ecology and art, James Corner's High Line will be a garden in the sky.

 

Landscape Garden curator and "vision keeper" Sadafumi Uchiyama is defining the integrity of the Portland Japanese Garden while bringing a new level of public engagement.

 

Sourcebook A listing of the products and services mentioned and shown in our pages.

 

On Design Julie Moir Messervy's new book, Home Outside, lays out her design theory. The long and short of it? She finds ways to create a sense of comfort in the garden - for playing, eating, frolicking. "You can event tryst there," she says.