All About Parterre Gardens with Fransen Mills' John Mills - Southern Home Magazine
At Southern Home, we've always admired the simple elegance of a formal parterre garden but had always assumed this stylish landscape design was slightly out of reach for our own yards. Not so! We sat down with John Mills, Landscape Architect, CEO of New Orleans' Fransen Mills, and an expert on Parterre Gardens, to learn how any humble plot can be transformed into a beacon of symmetry and order.
Best Boxwood Replacements: Elegant Evergreens
Need ideas for evergreen alternatives to #boxwoods? Try the cute and clippable Shear Genius™ Cotoneaster, Monrovia's new Emerald Boxer™ Japanese Holly, the tiny toothed leaves of Crownshine™ Osmanthus, or the remarkably cold-hardy Nordic™ Inkberry, a selection of a native North American shrub with berries for birds. Find even more compact, colorful, and elegant evergreens to replace boxwoods in areas bothered by blight in our full list of alternatives.

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