Refugia  converts homeowners into native plant advocates, one lawn at a time. By Jared Brey Jeff Lorenz stood under the mid-June sun at FDR Park, monitoring the final touches on his company’s exhibit for the Philadelphia Flower Show. The exhibit space, ordinarily an asphalt parking lot, had been covered in mulch and lined with displays, […]

A pair of landscape designers come up with a winning idea for the land-starved Louisiana coast. By Timothy A. Schuler Like many residents of southern Louisiana, the Indigenous residents of Grand Bayou Village, located among the southernmost reaches of Plaquemines Parish in the Mississippi River Delta and accessible only by boat, live with the varied […]

A Chicago garden calls a Black community pushed to the margins back together again. By Zach Mortice Since 2009, a vacant lot turned community garden on the 4600 block of Winthrop Avenue in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood has commemorated the Winthrop Avenue Family, the descendants of a group of Black families who for much of the […]

At Quarry House, TEN x TEN uses Minnesota stone and lissome birch to sculpt a residential garden in three dimensions. By Aaron King The backyard as a distinct space has not always been with us. It is, according to the cultural landscape historian Paul Groth, a relatively recent invention that was made possible by technological […]

Terremoto designed Cafe Ohlone to be an Indigenous refuge in a colonial world. By Timothy A. Schuler