25 Best Flower Bed Ideas

Melissa Bradford

Jon LovetteGetty Images Tending a garden is like painting: You start with a blank slate and layer on colors and textures. But unlike painting, no garden is ever really finished. Like all living things, your garden needs regular tending, and will continue to evolve and change over time. Whether you’ve […]

Health, wellness and the Japanese garden

Melissa Bradford

For many decades, nations all around the planet have acknowledged that anxiety and worry-linked ailments are a world wide wellness crisis using a massive toll on culture. In the early 1980s, the Forest Company of Japan began recommending men and women to acquire strolls in the woods for greater wellbeing. […]

Keir Davidson obituary | History books

Melissa Bradford

My close friend Keir Davidson, who has died aged 74, was a landscape designer and author. His textbooks variety from the record of Zen gardens in Japan to an account of Coleridge’s groundbreaking Lakeland fell walks in the early 19th century. Born in London, son of the distinguished African historian […]