SectionGardeningPlants & LandscapePlantsThe desert modern planting list: agave, olive, and nothing that needs a lawnThe plants that give a mid-century desert house its look are few, sculptural and slow. Here is what to plant, what to skip, and what the rules and rebates now say about the lawn.LandscapeBreeze block, gravel, and shade: how to rebuild a lost courtyard from one photographOne old snapshot holds more than it seems to: a date, a scale, a block pattern and the angle of the sun. Here is how to read it, and how to build the courtyard back.
