If you’re looking for new ideas in perennials, check out the New Perennial Movement. I’m not referring to coverage by industry media of every new perennial intro, I’m talking about the design style. It’s an evolution of the Dutch Wave and the New American Garden, but I’m not terribly concerned with its history. I am […]

Is the New Perennial movement losing its integrity? Or will its expansion reinvigorate it artistically? This year on this blog, I have started to celebrate the idea and expression of contemporary naturalistic design. I have made the claim that naturalistic design may be in a golden era. To show the diversity and complexity of this idea, I plan to highlight the work of several leading practitioners. But my enthusiasm was given pause this week after reading Michael King’s thoughtful essay…

Explorations in Naturalistic Planting Design

His radical planting is romantic, naturalistic and hugely influential, and is celebrated with a new RHS award

So much of garden-making is in the long game. Waiting for plants to fill out and to reach their potential can take years. But for anyone with a bare patch

It's the movement that never stops moving. Stepping into 2018, the New Perennial movement in naturalistic planting design continues to creep, climb, bloom, and seed its way around the civilized world all the way from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe to Canada, the U.S., South America, China, New Zealand, and beyond. In every pocket, there's a growing convergence of design, ecology, and architecture along with a deepening sense of what is possible and why it matters more than ever before (i.e…

With an emphasis on creating gardens that establish a link to nature garden design's New Perennial Movement is a garden style that is sweeping the country.

Gardener and designer Tim Pilgrim has transformed a once flat block of land into a magical garden that blooms and evolves with the seasons.