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Current Obsessions: Dreaming of Spring

Do you follow Good News Movement on Instagram? (It’s worth a look, if you need a little levity.) In that spirit, here’s this week’s Good News Roundup, Design Edition: sweet handmade lights! Free...

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Quick Takes With: Rozae Nichols

Gardeners in general are not particularly fashion-forward. We may think we’re hip enough with our uniforms of linen button-downs and worn-in jeans and Blundstone boots, but can these outfits go from...

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17 Favorites: Shrubs With White Flowers

It’s good to dream about flowers to come. Breathe in to a count of four, exhale to a count of five, six…17 white-flowering shrubs. Repeat. Gardeners have an advantage when it comes to managing the...

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Required Reading: Our Favorite Garden Newsletters

We are living in a golden age of newsletters. Thanks to a proliferation of publishing platforms, putting out a newsletter is easier than ever—and gardeners have heeded the call. Today everyone from the...

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Dear Reader: We Want to Hear From You! (Plus, a Giveaway)

Calling all Remodelista and Gardenista readers far and wide: Have a column you want to see more of? A suggestion for our newsletters? Something else you want us to know? We’d love to hear from you....

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Better Basics: Buckets and Watering Cans by Hachiman of Japan

If you had told us a plastic pail was about to steal our hearts, we never would have believed you. We first spotted the object in question en masse in the Chilewich booth at Shoppe Object’s recent...

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Gardening 101: Mahonia ‘Soft Caress’

Mahonia eurybracteata ‘Soft Caress’ This year I promised myself that I would incorporate more plants that can multitask and require less work and stress. One such plant that I have added to my...

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Before & After: A Two-Faced Victorian Garden With a Secret

Seen from the street, a gingerbread Victorian cottage near Melbourne, Australia hides its secret: a streamlined rear extension with a sleekly modern silhouette. The challenge for landscape architect...

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Current Obsessions: Bright Spot

Happy weekend, dear reader! Of note today: a new Paris design salon, a floral tour, a basket-weaving workshop, and more. P.S. Please write back! Fill out our survey to send feedback to our editors and...

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Quick Takes With: Sanne Hop

Sanne Hop is in “the busting out phase of her life,” Margot wrote when we toured Sanne’s live-work atelier in Amsterdam last month. Sanne’s shared her day-to-day creative life with thousands of...

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Bitter Melon: Like a Cucumber With Attitude

Bitter melons may resemble cucumbers and may be called melons, but they are neither. Certainly, these long green fruits are bitter. Despite that, one bite soon leads to another: I find myself chewing a...

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10 Easy Pieces: Outdoor Saunas

I’ve long held the misconception that an excess of outdoor space was a requirement for a personal sauna. Then while visiting a friend’s condo, I was amazed to find a cedar sauna wedged among the...

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Garden Visit: Le Jardin Plume, a Modern Impressionist Masterpiece in Normandy

For anyone hankering after European formality—only a touch, we’re not talking Versailles—Le Jardin Plume in Upper Normandy is just the ticket. Influenced by more recent movements involving perennials...

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Ask the Expert: Photographer James Ingram on How to Shoot Gardens Like a Pro

Jason Ingram shoots some of the world’s most beautiful gardens, including those belonging to King Charles III at his private residence, Highgrove near Tetbury in the Cotswolds. He works for garden...

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The Editors’ Cut: 12 Next-Level Tool Upgrades for the Garden

Welcome to The Editors’ Cut, our monthly newsletter dedicated to all things beautiful and useful for the garden, patio, porch, and terrace. Raring to get your hands dirty and start planting? We are,...

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Current Obsessions: New Views

On our radar: A spring equinox celebration at Lotusland, Merci’s new shop in Paris, and more. Also, March is Sleep Awareness Month, so may we recommend a good nap? Read on: Gardenista friend and...

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Quick Takes With: Judy Kameon

“I founded Elysian Landscapes in 1996 with a truck and a shovel, spending as much time in the field as at the drafting table,” says Judy Kameon, a former judge for Gardenista’s Considered Design...

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Shatta: A Taste of the Eastern Mediterranean

Shatta is a vivid, chile-hot condiment—a fermented hot sauce—rooted in the Eastern Mediterranean: Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt. It can be either red or green, and in its simplest iteration...

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Gardening 101: Flowering Currant

Flowering currant is a classic example of a serviceable American plant that, when transported to different continents, takes on a personality that is unrecognizable. In the UK, Ribes sanguineum has an...

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‘The New Romantic Garden’: 6 Ideas to Try From Landscape Designer Jo...

Anyone who knows British garden designer Jo Thompson’s work will not be surprised by the title of her book, The New Romantic Garden. Over the decades that Thompson has been working as a designer she,...

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5 Favorites: Hummingbird-Approved Plants

The humble hummingbird has always been a pollinator favorite among gardeners, but lately it’s been attracting more (and new) buzz. Katie Tamony, chief marketing officer and trend spotter at Monrovia,...

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10 Things Nobody Tells You About Painting the Exterior of Your House

The other day, I came across on Instagram a friend’s amazing before/after of her freshly painted house. The exterior had formerly been a greenish putty color, a not unattractive shade, but as soon as...

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Current Obsessions: Turning Towards Color

Depending on when you’re reading this, spring is at most five days away (but who’s counting?). To bid winter farewell, we’ve been turning our attention to color-infused rooms, Danish-made pigments,...

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Quick Takes With: Sophia Moreno-Bunge

Before Sophia Moreno-Bunge became a boldfaced name in the floral design world and attracted a clientele that includes goop, the Proper Hotel in Santa Monica, and the most discriminating private patrons...

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Fresh Bay Leaves: Don’t Use Sparingly

If you grow your own herbs, you are aware that (almost) everything has a season (unless you live in Florida, but even then). But if you grow an evergreen bay tree, you will have learned that fresh bay...

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Martha Just Dropped a Major New Gardening Book

Martha Stewart’s new gardening book Martha Stewart’s Gardening Handbook: The Essential Guide to Designing, Planting, and Growing is everything you would expect. It’s comprehensive and beautiful, and...

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Gardening 101: Everything You Need to Know About Growing Plants in Raised Beds

Don’t let bad soil stop you from planting an edible garden. The solution? Raised garden beds. An effective and easy solution for less-than-ideal soil conditions, raised beds increase yield and reduce...

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The Dirty Dozen: 12 Invasive Plants to Avoid (and What to Grow Instead)

This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to ecological gardening, on how you can be more sustainable in your landscapes at home. Last month we talked with Evelyn...

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New & Noteworthy: Muuto Has a New Outdoor Lounge Furniture Collection

It’s that time of year, when furniture companies roll out their newest spring and summer outdoor pieces. One collection in particular has us thinking of upgrading our own patio lounge furniture: the...

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Current Obsessions: Printemps

Happy weekend, dear reader. Ahead these first days of spring: a ceramics sale, a garden that embraces wear, a Paris opening, and more. Read on: Cate Blanchett, we 100 percent agree. Planning your...

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Quick Takes With: Martha Stewart

If this introduction really necessary? If you’ve ever read any of her magazines, or watched her television shows, or viewed the much-discussed Netflix documentary about her life, or follow her on...

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Beet Hummus with Tulips: A Petal Party Platter for Spring

Spring calls for vibrant food and parties (even for one) that celebrate the return of buds and petals and the leafing-out of trees. Enter vividly celebratory beet hummus, on a petal platter reeling...

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Grow a Community: 10 Ways to Create Connections Through Gardening

Every gardener knows that spending time tending a garden can be a balm for turbulent times. Putting your hands in the earth and watching life unfurl is therapeutic. But gardening can be more than a...

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Spring Gardening: 5 Common Shrubs to Prune Right Now (and 5 Not to Prune)

As the weather warms and gardeners look forward to getting their hands dirty, now’s a good time to review what can and should be done in the garden in spring. Nature has its own schedule and sometimes...

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Rethinking Mugwort: There Is a Lot to Love About This Demonized Herb

The name “mugwort” in the US is a signifier for “invasive,” but when grown purposefully, the aromatic section of the Artemisia genus has much to recommend it. Some species are native in regions of the...

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Maintenance 101: How to Care for Wood Outdoor Furniture

Soon it will be time to drag the outdoor furniture from hibernation or, if you live in sunnier climes, add it to your spring cleaning list to get ready for dining al fresco. Don’t know where to start?...

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Current Obsessions: Design Cleanse

With the weekend upon us and April within our grasp, we’re turning our attention towards these great springy goings-on: New Yorkers, don’t miss Tulip Day this Sunday, March 30, at Union Square. Show up...

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Quick Takes With: Benjamin Vogt

There’s good reason that the Prairie Up newsletter landed on our list of favorite garden newsletters. Not only is its creator, Benjamin Vogt, a passionate advocate for ecology-based gardening...

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Durian Ice Cream: A Tropical Treat Starring the Famously Divisive Fruit

Have you ever eaten a durian? If you have, or if you have met one and hurried on by, you might be conjuring up the huge, spiky fruit’s famous smell—or perfume—right now. I can only say, hand on heart,...

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New & Noteworthy: Little Greene’s Exterior Paints

If painting the exterior of your home is on your spring or summer to-do list, we have some exciting news for you: British paint company, Little Greene (which has a dedicated U.S. website as well as a...

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