The summer isn’t over yet: There’s plenty of time for day trips, quick jaunts, and weekend getaways. This and more, on our radar.

Above: Where we’d like to be. See more of the Catskills’ most rustic, relaxing new opening at The Woodhouse Lodge: Designer Megan Pflug’s Catskills Motor Lodge Makeover.
- A reason to stay up late tonight.
- And: We’re fans of the Dark Sky movement.
- On the waterfront: Chicagoans are reveling in the resurrection of their river.
- Is your fairy house up to code?
- Your lawn is costing you $969 a year.
- Hunting the world’s rarest trees.
- Beetlemania (and how to cure it).
- What to binge-watch this weekend: Summer Rayne Oakes’ Plant One on Me YouTube series, featuring a behind-the-scenes look at an orchid factory outside Rotterdam and more.
- World’s most pleasing fridge organization, summer produce edition.

Above: In the New York area? Catch us on Sunday, August 12 at 3 p.m. at new curated trade show Shoppe Object: Julie and Margot will be on hand to sign all three of our books. See you there!
In the UK? Two English plant swaps going on this weekend:
- Today in Oxford, UK.
- Tomorrow in Bristol, UK.
- Plus, get your tickets now for Glasswing’s Greenhouse Plant Swap in Seattle on August 25. (The first 25 people to RSVP will get a tiny tillandsia.)
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