A large, intricate knot garden with hedges, trees, and flowers within it - Clay Perry/Getty Images Knot gardens have a long history stretching back to Medieval times but really hit their stride during ...

Tudor England, a period that spanned 1485 to 1603, gave us William Shakespeare and English conquests in the New World. Rulers like Henry VIII and Elizabeth I made England a European power. The Tudor ...

Several centuries ago French and English landscapers began using designs of fellow weavers and patternmakers. But instead of fiber, they picked plants to create their intricate knot gardens. The ...

Knots, which tie shoes, boats and even men and women, also serve to elegantly connect gardeners with the soil. The living works of art known as knot gardens can test a gardener's mettle, particularly ...

A well-designed knot garden is often one of the most interesting features in a garden, and it retains that effect all year. This is a planting project where it is a good idea to put pencil to paper ...

hen Julie Podolny Lackey made plans to wed her longtime fiancé, Joel Lackey, this summer, she decided it was time to tie the knot symbolically as well as literally. So she created a knot garden in the ...