What landscape architects need to know. Do controversies tell us what's at stake, or are we just spoiled for choice? By ...

Naturalistic Planting Inspired by Wild Shrublands by Kevin Philip Williams and Michael Guidi London: Filbert Press, 2024; 240 pages, $55. Reviewed by Danielle VonLehe The garden designer’s ...

Danielle VonLehe is a landscape designer at TERREMOTO in Los Angeles.

The garden designer’s relationship to shrubs is moderately troubled. In the 1980s, the New Perennial movement rejected the rigid ubiquity of sculpted shrubs (typical of the early 20th-century British ...

Plants at Botanical Treasures, a perennials wholesaler in Fletcher, North Carolina, in Helene’s aftermath. Photo courtesy Robert Stine/Botanical Treasures. In several videos Robert Stine made of his ...

“We did a lot of fountain designs for them that didn’t resonate. It was the only piece of the project that didn’t make them happy right out of the gate. Then I had the idea: Why are we not just using ...

In this nighttime rendering of the Línudans lava bridge concept, the flow glows orange as it crosses over the protected road below. Image by Magnús Rafnsson/Línudans. Kristín Jóhannsdóttir woke at two ...

In 1993, Pollocksville, North Carolina, Mayor Jay Bender, who’s run the small town for more than 40 years, worked “like crazy” to convince the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to allow him to build on the ...

Trees with dense canopies, including maples and bur oaks, were most vulnerable to the violent gusts of wind from the 2020 derecho. Courtesy Brucemore Inc. On August 10, 2020, a derecho ripped across ...

“We did a lot of fountain designs for them that didn’t resonate. It was the only piece of the project that didn’t make them happy right out of the gate. Then I had the idea: Why are we not just using ...

Nursery growers in western North Carolina were devastated by Hurricane Helene. Their road to recovery is long and complicated ...