This garden’s matrix-style planting is composed of more than 40 genera organized by their functional role. Find plant IDs here.

It’s about setting aside our desire for control to instead work in partnership with nature. This is essentially the guiding principle behind the naturalistic garden, a plant-driven approach to landscape design that has been around in one form or another since Englishman William Robinson first published his first edition of The Wild Garden in 1870.

Jo Ferguson on Instagram: “We must all get behind @globalgardensofpeace a project lead by Moira Kelly and Andrew Laidlaw.”

WE GARDENERS want to do the right things: to attract pollinators, for instance, or grow more natives, and be environmentally conscious. We also want to create gardens that work for us, that are manageable—and resilient—even