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wicker enclosure

Max Kim-Bee

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Rustic Details

A wicker enclosure protects sage and lavender from rabbits in a New York garden.

Wisteria

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garden landscaping ideas

Ditte Isager

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Raised Garden Beds

Designers Deirdre Heekin and Caleb Barber entertain at their cozy Vermont cottage between raised vegetable and flower beds made out of red cedar.

wood pergola

Francesco Lagnese

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Classical Garden

Highgrove House, the country residence of Prince Charles, inspired designer Brian McCarthy's Kerhonkson, New York, home. McCarthy planned all the trees and shrubs on the property, which was once entirely alfalfa fields.

low maintenance landscaping ideas

Max Kim-Bee

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Flower-Lined Driveway

"It's not just the inside of your house that deserves stylish touches," says Bunny Williams. "Celebrate your arrival by rolling out the red carpet for yourself — or at least a pair of oversize planters."

boxwood hedges

Victoria Pearson

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cutting garden

Max Kim-Bee

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Cutting Garden

The cutting garden of a New York house overflows with echinacea, coneflowers, and false sunflowers — all of which do just fine with a once-a-week watering.

wisteria trellis pictures

House Beautiful

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Spanish Colonial House

Anne Schlechter

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Boxwood Parterres

Talk about an incredible view. From their bedroom balcony, the homeowners of a Spanish Colonial Revival look out onto stunning boxwood parterres attributed to the late Richmond garden designer Charles Gillette.

front door garden

Melanie Acevedo

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porch

Max Kim-Bee

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Potted Plants

Pots of Marguerite daisies, lavender, and alliums brighten the porch off a New York estate.

simple front yard landscaping ideas

Anne Schlechter

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Climbing Roses

A stucco garden wall fringed with climbing roses opens onto a Virginia home's pool.

table with umbrella and chairs in garden

Christopher Baker

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Courtyard Garden

Tucked into the backyard of a Savannah row house, the walled courtyard garden is a fragrant oasis lush with jasmine, hydrangeas, orange trees, and creeping fig. Antique bricks and boxwood define the form, and crushed oyster shells cover the ground.

pear trees trellis

Simon Watson

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landscaping ideas for backyards

Eric Piasecki

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Garden Party

A dining pavilion flanked with flowers anchors the backyard of a Florida home.

archway

Max Kim-Bee

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Trained Archway

An archway covered in porcelain berry vines separates beds of black-eyed Susan, bee balm, and cat mint from a 19th-century house. The white, ruin-like columns in the distance were salvaged from a local bank.

cloister garden

Simon Watson

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French Garden

In the Cloister Garden of a 16th-century French countryside estate, the classic rose Katharina Zeimet stands out among the formal hedges.

pool garden

Annie Schlechter

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Hydrangea Hedge

Rows of hydrangeas and hedges offer a beautiful alternative to typical garden fences, like this East Hampton landscape designed by Robert Stilin.

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Michael Devine

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Lush Dining Spot

Textile designer Michael Devine conjures a romantic alfresco fete in this lush garden.

pool design landscaping

Jonny Valiant

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Ditte Isager

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Vermont Charm

Jumbled beds of black-eyed Susan line the path to a Vermont cottage's quaint guest room.

rose garden

Francesco Lagnese

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Rose Garden

For a garden outside of her Hamptons cottage, designer Podge Bune chose roses for their scent and didn't worry about color. "I thought, 'Well, let's just have a riot.' I'm so bored with all white. But be warned. Roses are persnickety. I have to do a little nip and tuck every day."

formal garden in front of a cottage

Don Freeman

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Rows of Lavender

A formal parterre garden of boxwood and lavender in front of an Alabama cottage is "fresh and unexpected," says designer Betsy Brown.

garden in the courtyard of the entrance of a home

Victoria Pearson

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Secret Garden

The front door of this oceanfront Los Angeles house opens to a surprising open-air courtyard. Designer Chris Barrett clustered plants in antique pots on a concrete table.

stone faux bois dining table

Simon Upton

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Geometric Gazebo

An iron gazebo adds interest to the backyard of a rustic yet luxurious Atlanta home. Waves of clipped boxwood, magnolia, hydrangea, anise, and holly screen out the 20-story building just five yards away.

table and chairs next to a shed

John Kernick

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Wooden Shed

Designer Ellen O'Neill planted a garden by the shed of her Bridgehampton home. It's the perfect accompaniment to her worn and weathered cottage.

gates leading to a vegetable garden

Ngoc Minh Ngo

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Structural Fence

A graphic cedar deer fence encloses the raised planting beds of landscape designer Lisa Byon's vegetable garden in Southampton, New York.

wisteria in a garden

Christopher Baker

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Victorian Gazebo

Lush 50-year-old wisteria vines drape a Victorian wire gazebo outside of a New York house designed by Robin Bell, with the assistance of landscape designer Deborah Nevins and architect Stephen Potters.

garden in bloom

William Abranowicz

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European Garden

Designers Mark Leslie and Richard Norris designed the cottage-size parterre, reminiscent of gardens they had visited in Europe, outside their Federal-style home in Alabama.