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Beds & Borders
A year in a 12-by-16 vegetable bed, replacing lawn with meadow, the cottage garden in a side yard, the long border at Great Dixter.
Companion Planting a 20-Foot Perennial Bed in Zone 5
Octavia Bryne profiles a small Vermont border where pest pressure has fallen sharply through deliberate plant pairing rather than spray.
An Autumn Border Planned Around Grasses and Seedheads
Sage Marchetti walks an Iowa border designed for September through January, where the gardener has stopped deadheading entirely.
The Gravel Garden as Drought Response in Southern France
Octavia Bryne reports from a hilltop garden in the Aude where rainfall has dropped 27 percent since 2010 and a gardener has rebuilt from the soil up.
A North-Facing Shade Border in a Yorkshire Stone Garden
Eloise Vinter visits a forty-foot dry-shade border behind a Pennine stone cottage and reports on the plants that earned their keep.
The Long Border at Great Dixter Through the Seasons
Rowena Bell spends four visits across one calendar year at the celebrated Sussex border, reading what changes and what holds.
A Cottage Garden in a Brooklyn Side Yard
Tristan Aoki visits a fourteen-by-thirty-eight-foot plot in Carroll Gardens where a former chef has built an English-style border between two brownstones.
Replacing 800 Square Feet of Lawn with a Wildflower Meadow
Sage Marchetti reports on a three-year conversion in a Hadley, Massachusetts front yard, and the patience the work demands.
A Year in a 12-by-16 Vegetable Bed in Zone 6
Rowena Bell follows a small kitchen plot in the Berkshires through twelve months of weather, succession, and quiet revisions.