The Victorian era was famed for its gardens, and tree stump gardens were a feature of them. These gorgeous landscapes use a creative mix of stumps and rocks to create unusual garden structures. Like ...

Lilacs have graced gardens for centuries, with their fragrant clusters of purple, white, and pink flowers heralding the ...

Victorian gardens reached their glory when a worldwide gardening frenzy erupted with the introduction of new and exotic plant varieties being discovered around the globe. It was a time when those ...

Shaded by Douglas firs, rhododendron, and Japanese maples, Emily Joseph rounds the fern-filled bend of one of the world’s largest stumperies, a garden that uses wood to make homes for shade-loving ...

Seen anywhere from great-grandma’s ornamental garden to your Connecticut neighbor’s hanging basket, coleus are the colorful, velvet-textured leafy cousins of oregano and deadnettle. Native to tropical ...

Victorians were anything but shy, retiring, stuffy or conservative, especially when it came to their gardens. Their gardens were colorful, flamboyant and outrageous with eccentric floral displays to ...

Johanna Bos' Old Louisville garden, a mix of perennials, herbs, and native plants, will be featured in the Old Louisville Hidden Treasures Garden Tour. Bos, originally from Holland and from a family ...

At the time, groundskeepers were completing gardens and posting plant labels for formal opening of the new Victorian area on Friday. Jim Cocos, vice president of horticulture at the Garden, said, "It ...

S. Dillon Ripley (1913-2001), the eighth secretary of the Smithsonian, recognized a golden opportunity in the landscapes around the museums. Remembering the museums and European pleasure gardens he ...

Hidden in the English countryside of Sussex sits Gravetye Manor, a historic Elizabethan property surrounded by a gorgeous 35-acre garden. Now a luxury hotel, Gravetye was once home to one of the most ...

In 1972, Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley established Smithsonian Gardens to extend the Institution's exhibition, research, and education efforts through horticulture. Today, Smithsonian Gardens ...