Families that garden together reap a bounty of rewards.

All over Baltimore, small pockets of green offer unexpected and healing encounters with nature.

When a tree came down in an English-style garden, a labyrinth took its place.

Baltimore Style hunts down a Gertrude Jekyll-style English garden and finds Cunningham Manor

The Monkton topiary garden is implementing eco-friendly techniques without sacrificing any of its renowned beauty.

A pair of Baldwin, Md., nursery owners have transformed cornfields into timeless gardens.

A six-acre garden in North Baltimore offers color, texture and views.

A 35-acre estate in Baltimore County pays homage to an ancient Himalayan kingdom.

Bob and Lola Jones have a garden for all seasons in Homeland

Robin Breitenecker has created a rollicking country garden on Western Run.

Over 19 years, a Baltimore City lawn has become a horticultural wonderland.

A Homeland gardener reimagines her rectangular lawns as curvaceous horticultural tapestries.

In 36 years, Larry and Vicki Kloze have turned a small lot near Pimlico Race Course into an artistic, functional extension of their home.

Dickeyville began life in the 18th century as a settlement surrounding a grist mill. Today, it’s a quiet collection of homes set in what feels like an English country garden.

A creative couple see their country garden in Ruxton as a constantly evolving canvas.

A Guilford couple unites their love of English gardens and Asian art.

A group of gardening neighbors merged three city yards into one unified verdant expanse.

Novice and experienced gardeners alike tend garden plots in seven Baltimore City parks.

Think you can’t grow a garden on the beach? This Fenwick Island homeowner has a sandy thumb— and a sea of color— all summer long.

Classic 19th-century bones provide an elegant backdrop to these gardens’ modern beauty.

Walter and Nancy Schamu have created a thriving garden atop- and throughout- their Federal Hill home.

A terraced garden in the Green Spring Valley offers multiple levels of beauty.

Writer Kathy Hudson chronicles the colorful history of Sherwood Gardens, from its rural beginnings to its mid-20th-century heyday to its rebirth in the 1980s.

A blend of tropicals, evergreens and annuals dances on a penthouse terrace above the Baltimore harbor.

With its Italian sculptures, Greek pillars and ivy-twined trellises, this terrace garden is a European Eden above Baltimore.

A big back yard isn't necessary to crate a stunning garden.

In nearly four decades, a Baltimore couple has created a hillside masterpiece.

As a Baltimore County couple's collections grow, so does their garden.

While we may not be able to grow palm trees, hibiscus, cyclamen, calla or canna lilies— except in containers— here in Zone 7, we can grow plenty of other plants emblematic of the South. Select one or several of the gardener’s dozen below and enjoy some Southern flavor, fragrance and color in your Baltimore back yard. But be prepared to provide these plants a little extra TLC. This far north, they’ll need it.

A Butchers Hill designer combines the classical and whimsical in his backyard creation.

Three adjoining back yards provide a Bolton Hill couple a bountiful harvest.

A cascading Federal Hill garden is suffused with an elegant Italian flavor.


With the help of dramatic lighting, this Bolton Hill garden becomes an intimate outdoor room.

On 10 acres in Baltimore County, Sidney and Jean Silber have created one of the region's most revered gardens.

Betty and Buddy Rosen prove you don’t need a yard to create a beautiful garden.

A canopy of trees overlooks this lush Baltimore County garden.

Kathy Hudson talks with glass artist Anthony Corradetti about the riches of his urban oasis.

Style contributing editor Kathy Hudson talks to painter Iva Gillet about her twin passions.

Baltimore’s green-thumbs point the way to some of the best places for gardening goods.

Retired investment manager Pete Colhoun tends the elegant garden his mother started nearly five decades ago.

Eleanor Weller Reade and her first husband, the late Frank Weller, spent three decades lovingly sculpting the gardens around their Monkton cottage.




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