Garden

Sitting Pretty

A strong underlying architecture is important when the garden goes minimalist for the winter.

In the autumn, the glowing colors and strong geometry of an Arts & Crafts garden come into their own, accented by compatible containers.

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.

How one couple created a beautiful Arts & Crafts garden.

A 1926 Spanish bungalow garden with a desert in bloom.

A modest yard is reimagined as garden rooms with verdant space for lounging, eating, even hanging out in a hot tub.

Perched above an abandoned granite quarry, this garden has rock sculptures and perennials, vegetables and a place to meditate.

You can extend the Arts & Crafts lighting ambiance to the porch, garden paths, the garage, and the garden.

The pergola, arbor, and trellis merge indoors and out in the Arts & Crafts garden.

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).

A landscape designer imagines boxwood and favorite cottage flowers in an English garden created for a Tudor Revival house in Montgomery, Alabama.

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?

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.

A very pretty accoutrement long ago went missing on many a Chicago brick bungalow. Some are back, looking better than ever.

In the classic Arts & Crafts landscape surrounding a Tudor manor south of San Francisco, vistas provide grandeur, garden rooms intimacy.

This “Grecian garden” in Alabama presents Classicism in a context that’s decidedly 20th century.

The owner of an iconic Arts & Crafts house in Hastings-on-Hudson rids the old property of nuisance plants.

Stone and brick have been making transitions to the great outdoors for centuries, but a new product, the brick paver, lays down beautifully.

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.

Functional details here—outdoor hardware, mailbox, the bell or knocker—must be weatherproof and long-lasting. Besides, first impressions start at the entry door!

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.

In Altadena, a blue granite castle is a landmark restored. With mature gardens surrounding the house, it’s an eclectic whimsy.