Garden
A look at period-friendly styles for landscaping and gardens for Arts & Crafts homes, including garden structures, pergolas, edging, window boxes, and planting ideas.
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A Visit to the Gardens at Artemis Farm
Love has grown fonder, greener, and more creative between this homeowner and the old house she calls home.
Bones of the Winter Garden
A strong underlying architecture is important when the garden goes minimalist for the winter.
Visiting Mara’s Garden
In the autumn, the glowing colors and strong geometry of an Arts & Crafts garden come into their own, accented by compatible containers.
Follow the Clinker Brick Road
Spreading like molten peanut brittle, a playful clinker brick wall ties a rear garden to a stunning and dramatic newly built Greene & Greene-style home.
Sprucing Up a Bungalow Backyard
A modest yard is reimagined as garden rooms with verdant space for lounging, eating, even hanging out in a hot tub.
No Stone Left Unturned
Perched above an abandoned granite quarry, this garden has rock sculptures and perennials, vegetables and a place to meditate.
Light in the Landscape
You can extend the Arts & Crafts lighting ambiance to the porch, garden paths, the garage, and the garden.
Structures to Enrich the Garden
The pergola, arbor, and trellis merge indoors and out in the Arts & Crafts garden.
Garden on the Bay: Cascading Movement & Focal Points
Belvedere Island is situated between Sausalito and Tiburon on San Francisco Bay. This house was built as an open-air retreat in 1912 by Dr. Florence Nightingale Ward, the pioneering physician and close friend of architect Julia Morgan (who may have contributed to its design).
An English Garden in Montgomery
A landscape designer imagines boxwood and favorite cottage flowers in an English garden created for a Tudor Revival house in Montgomery, Alabama.
Naumkeag Gardens
The Naumkeag gardens designed by Mabel Choate and Fletcher Steele for Charles McKim’s Shingle Style icon recently were restored. Why not learn from the best?
Garden Edging for Maintenance & Ornament
A staple of English Arts & Crafts gardens, edging has practical as well as historical appeal. From buried barriers to iron and stone, edging remains a practical and often ornamental staple in the garden.
Window Boxes in the Windy City
A very pretty accoutrement long ago went missing on many a Chicago brick bungalow. Some are back, looking better than ever.
An English Country Garden in Northern California
In the classic Arts & Crafts landscape surrounding a Tudor manor south of San Francisco, vistas provide grandeur, garden rooms intimacy.
Another Side of Jasmine Hill
This “Grecian garden” in Alabama presents Classicism in a context that’s decidedly 20th century.
A Collaboration with Nature
The owner of an iconic Arts & Crafts house in Hastings-on-Hudson rids the old property of nuisance plants.
Paving the Way
Stone and brick have been making transitions to the great outdoors for centuries, but a new product, the brick paver, lays down beautifully.
The Outdoor Hearth, Fire-Pit & Barbecue
The bungalow and then the California ranch helped popularize indoor–outdoor living, which included cooking en plein air. Fire remains a coveted element, whether it’s flaring in the grille, making embers in a stone “barbecue” of the 1950s, or warming the evening in an outdoor hearth.
Hardware at the Entry
Functional details here—outdoor hardware, mailbox, the bell or knocker—must be weatherproof and long-lasting. Besides, first impressions start at the entry door!
Outdoor Furniture & Ornament
Here’s a specialized list of period-inspired and contemporary porch and patio furniture, ornaments, fences and trellises, gazebos and conservatories, pavers and stone. Find products and manufacturers who will help you live in the garden, whether you have a Craftsman Bungalow or a new house with Arts & Crafts spirit.
