Gardens

Beauty for a Day: Enjoying Daylilies Indoors

In a love letter to daylilies, gardener Mary Walton Upchurch writes of her unusual approach to the prolific but fleeting blooms, which she grows as cut flowers for the house rather than as ornaments for the garden.

Butterfly Bush: A Cautionary Tale

Butterflies flock to buddleia’s fragrant blooms, but only the most conscientious gardener should consider planting this non-native invasive species. Mary Walton Upchurch explains how to keep it in check.

The Majesty of Highgrove Gardens

Tucked into the picturesque Cotswolds countryside, the home of Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, sits surrounded by gardens, wispy meadows, marching allées, and ancient walls with fragrant climbing roses

Plantsville Pines

When a garden is built on hopes and dreams, there are no limits. Explore the rose-bowered arbors, evergreens, and chorus of annuals and perennials of a 3-acre Connecticut paradise

The Wit & the Whim of Oatsie Charles

Set on a spit of Atlantic-lapped land, the celebrated socialite and philanthropist’s famous house welcomes back her daughter and family to continue their tradition of Newport summering

Southern Favorites in Springtime Gardens

Karen Cauthen Ellsworth of Virginia’s Historic Garden Week shares Southern favorites for springtime gardens, plus planting and floral-arranging tips from Garden Club of Virginia’s Horticulture Chairman, Wendy Walker