In a knot garden, plants are laid out to form an interlocking design. Low-growing, thickly mounding plants that form a neat miniature hedge work best.

If you want to try your hand at a knot garden, first draw your design on paper. Make the design symmetric and the pattern of either interwoven or separate shapes.

Knotted designs in gardens, cloth, stone and jewelry have been around for centuries. The earliest representation of a knot garden is from the late 15th century.

Many knot gardens are planted with a combination of dwarf shrubs and perennial herbs; however, small, compact, slow-growing annuals are often included in permanent knots for a touch of color or ...

Classic gardens also often include unique, self-contained gardens like the traditional knot garden. Resembling historical patterns of tapestries, rugs or Celtic knots of the 1400s, they include ...

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 ga… ...

Eve Hermann / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0. The Celtic Knot Garden is one of the highlights of the Inniswood Metro Gardens, a 123-acre nature preserve near Columbus, Ohio.The carefully manicured knot ...

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 ...