The difference between a garden that photographs well and a garden that holds up well with your life.
In our new spring issue the gardens are modest in scale. A courtyard in England. A backyard in Brussels. A balcony designed for stillness. None of them rely on abundance. All of them reveal something true about how space shapes the way we live.
“A garden doesn’t announce its success,” writes editor DaShan Nixon in the issue’s opening note. “It’s revealed in how we return to it.”
Browse the Spring Issue below to read three real garden features — including a confined courtyard where restraint became the source of comfort, an urban backyard redesigned entirely around a dining table and the people who gather at it, and a conceptual garden built around a single question: how should this space feel to live in?
Also inside — urns as threshold objects, two essays on the conditions that make us linger or leave, a curated reading list of books that quietly inform how we see, and a closing reflection on the places we return to without thinking.
Start reading below.
