Naturalistic planting

Beautiful and great for wildlife, a naturalistic planting design can look wonderful year round and suits many styles and sizes of backyard

She won Olympic acclaim, and gold at Chelsea, with her naturalistic planting. Now Sarah Price explains how to achieve the effect at home.

It’s about setting aside our desire for control to instead work in partnership with nature. This is essentially the guiding principle behind the naturalistic garden, a plant-driven approach to landscape design that has been around in one form or another since Englishman William Robinson first published his first edition of The Wild Garden in 1870.

See examples of British naturalistic planting design. Learn about the work of Dan Pearson and other UK designers who favor naturalistic gardens.

Upon hearing that my New Perennial pond garden just won a 2020 Honour Award in Landscape Design, the highest such honour from the US-based Perennial Plant Association, I find myself lost for words. I will instead let the garden speak for itself.

Learn all about the creation of a perennial meadow or a pictorial meadow in the new naturalistic style of garden design. Discover how and why they matter.

When planting a naturalistic garden, is having more plants always better? "New Naturalism" author Kelly Norris says “yes.”

Renowned garden designer Piet Oudolf has spent a lifetime honing his craft. Now he's letting us in on the secret

Suffolk garden design of beautiful naturalistic perennial planting, limestone gravel pathways and clay pavers, multi-stem birch trees, crab apple trees, wildflower meadow and minimalist front garden of calamagrostis karl forester with beech cylinders

WE GARDENERS want to do the right things: to attract pollinators, for instance, or grow more natives, and be environmentally conscious. We also want to..