When Grace designs foundation plantings for her clients, she considers the house as a backdrop, and the plantings as elements that, together, fit well against it.

Today’s evergreens not only offer practical solutions to garden challenges—but they look fabulous in the landscape, too. With ...

The tradition has flourished in various places at different times, but in modern gardens, topiary is rare, unless you count our foundation plantings of clipped yews and junipers — “gumdrop ...