Garden Journal
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A Backyard Worth Wandering: Building a Retreat Behind Woodmont Boulevard
Behind the traffic on Woodmont Boulevard sits a backyard designed for wandering. What began as a long, narrow lawn is now a family landscape filled with garden beds, winding paths, a fire circle, and a tiny A-frame hideaway at the edge of the woods. Step inside and explore a garden built for curiosity, play, and the kind of childhood memories that stick.
Garden Tour: A midcentury modern design
A midcentury modern gem in Nashville gets a garden to match. With bold black cedar beds, curved native plantings, and stone pathways softened by thyme, this garden balances structure and whimsy—becoming a true extension of the home it surrounds.
Garden Tour: Reducing the Overwhelm on a New Family Homestead
It’s easy to feel decision fatigue when getting started on a family homestead. There are so many new things to learn— the garden? chickens? how to compost? But in this new garden tour, Lauren and Jerod took the plunge, purchasing a greenhouse, coop, and shed before they had a fully fleshed out plan. With a little help from TKG, the end result was a beautifully integrated garden.
Garden Tour: Dreaming of Green in the Blueprint Stage
Clients often call us to plan a garden while the house is only in blue-print stage. In this design, we took advantage of the long runway to create something spectacular.
Garden Tour: Maximizing the Design for a Small Space
See the design process for creating an efficient garden that will produce pounds of food in a relatively small space.
Stone and Steel
A new Corten Steel Trio of raised beds adds worn-in charm to an elegant Southern back porch.