What is a formal garden? originally appeared on Dengarden. A formal garden sounds grand and imposing, evoking images of huge, impeccably manicured gardens attached to European palaces. But what if we ...

Are you waiting for the day you can travel again and see new sights? Aren’t we all? In light of that, the members of the Marin Rose Society invite you to join them Tuesday, as Jerry Georgette takes ...

Surrounded by formal Italian gardens, ancient Roman ruins and long avenues of lush trees, Pope Leo XIV inaugurated a new ...

The aisle is paved with stone from an ancient Roman road; the apse is made of carefully trimmed evergreen bushes; the columns are tall, thin cypress trees; and the nave is a lily pond, complete with ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Visit a major city in the United States, and there is a good chance you could stumble across a “Little Italy,” some variation of the one found along Mayfield Road in Cleveland ...

It seems as if I have always known of the celebrated Villa d‘Este, but until this spring I really didn’t know much about it. I was aware of the complex’s influence on landscape design, especially the ...