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From shore-side cottage plantings to royal Edens, FLOWER readers love a beautiful garden. We gathered more than 20 of our most popular garden features for you to wander through and enjoy.

From its beginning, Flower has shared beautiful gardens in its pages. From the humble cottages and backyards of friends to historic estates and even palace grounds, our writers and photographers take readers inside some sort of garden in every issue. For our 15th anniversary, we gathered some of the most popular gardens from the magazine.

As our Editor-in-Chief Margot Shaw wrote in a recent column, “We’ve experienced a perfect storm of sickness, isolation, unrest, helplessness, fear, uncertainty, and frustration. …however, there’s been the nurturing sanctuary of nature. In summer, we had warm days with the benefits of lots of vitamin D, the cool green of the generous shade of a favorite hardwood, and time on the porch watching our children or grands at play. In autumn, crisp, cinnamony days were filled with the explosive palette of leaves. In winter, a bracing walk down a country road or a scenic vista from indoors onto the romantic landscape of hay-colored grasses; the green of evergreens; the charcoal sculptures of deciduous trees; and, in Alabama, the unlikely increase in the bird population as they broke their travels south nourished our spirits. …I urge you all to enjoy the riches of the outdoors, and hopefully by now, with others. …May the magic of these gardens give you wonder, hope, and joy.”

FLOWER MAGAZINE’S MOST POPULAR GARDENS

Nancy Lancaster Designs 

At Haseley Court, Nancy Lancaster planted an allée of laburnum that still enchants today. British designer David Hicks once called Nancy—a native Virginian— “the most influential English gardener since Gertrude Jekyll.” Photo by Charlotte Moss

Piet Oudolf’s garden.

In his garden at Hummelo, world-renowned Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf brings home the essence of his aesthetic. In mid- and late summer at Hummelo, the combination of Lythrum virgatum, ‘Visions in Pink’ astilbe, wild indigo, tufted hair grass, and ironweed commands attention. Photo by Sabine Bungert/Living Inside

Haseley Court

Drawn to Nantucket’s allure, a Philadelphia couple created a classic cedar-shake home with an enviable garden full of layered color, texture, and cottage charm. The courtyard garden features perennials such as echinacea, buddleia, liatris, and various biannuals and annuals. And with a photo like this, how could it not be one of the magazine’s most popular gardens? Photo by Kindra Clineff

Sharon Santoni’s Garden

Sharon Santoni has found heaven on earth in Normandy, France, but rather than keeping the treasures of the region to herself, she’s on a mission to spread the ambience. Thanks to the many parterres, the property belonging to Sharon Santoni and her husband, Eric, feels much larger than its modest one acre. Photo by Kindra Clineff