Gardenista Roundup
You need to login or register to view and manage your bookmarks. In that French feat of landscaping splendor, boxwood is clipped and pruned and trained into submission, as hedges and edging and even tapestries.
To create pattern and texture in a landscape, “I have no problem with mixing curves and straight edges,” says landscape architect Janice Parker.
“If you’re going to go for it, go big or go home.”
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Photograph by Nicole Franzen for Gardenista.
Who needs flowers when you have 50 shades of green?
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“The inspiration was mainly labor-saving,” says Hicks’s son, designer Ashley Hicks, “but also to give a look of orange trees ...
...at Versailles, albeit on a slightly smaller scale.” Read more in Brit Style: The Garden With (Almost) No Flowers.
Elsewhere on the property, blowsy wildflower meadows attest to what the designer calls his “relaxed and naturalistic” approach.
Influenced by French garden designs, landscape designer Andrea Filippone laid out her vegetable garden in a grid, each ...
...perfect square edged with box. For more of her garden, see The Garden Designer is In: A Deer-proof Edible Garden.
Read more in Garden Visit
La Formentera in Garrison, NY.
Finally, get more ideas on how to successfully plant, grow, and care for boxwood with our Boxwood: A Field Guide.