This Modern English Garden Transforms the Familiar into the Fantastic A green-thumbed British couple complement their historic converted barn in Kent with inventive greenery ...

In fact, this emphasis on a softer, more natural look is built into the very history of the modern English garden. The English garden style as we now understand it emerged in the eighteenth ...

Greg Loades’ “The Modern Cottage Garden” (published by Timber Press) concerns itself with a style of garden that we in California tend to call English. “This is a gardener’s garden.

Originally, the Londoners’ plan was to commission a modern getaway in rural Kent, but planning regulations discouraged that edgy dream. “Fitting in is not what we wanted to do,” Su explains.

Greg Loades’ “The Modern Cottage Garden” (published by Timber Press) concerns itself with a style of garden that we in California tend to call English. “This is a gardener’s garden.