Will Egypt put Sennufer’s elaborate garden back on the map, palms, pools and all? After 34 centuries, it’s time.

So far as we know, Sennufer is the highest ranking gardener of all time. He lived in the 14th Century BC, and oversaw the fields and

Allen Bush introduces us to an Estonian plantsman who specializes in lichens and pillowcases. Thank you, Allen.

I traveled to Austria and Italy with The Ratzeputz Gang in September 1991 to visit nurseries and gardens. My favorite memory is a leisurely luncheon on nurseryman Lorenzo

A topiary artist bends the lush Carolina landscape to his will.

Lee County, South Carolina, calls itself “the land of cotton,” failing to mention kudzu and pigweed. Staying even here means constant pushing back against green: mow, chop or you drown in vegetation. On the

With design, aesthetics and ecological concerns leading the way, symbolism isn’t much of a force in contemporary gardening. But we offer two examples where concept dominates, one noble, the other daffy.

​Our first stab at a garden, on High St. in Lexington, Kentucky, was as conceptually