We just completed our second annual Gardenista Survey, and as we pore over zillions of reader responses (thanks, you guys are the best) one request jumps out: You want to see more gardens. Real people's gardens. You know what? So do we. Send us your garden photos!
We want to publish stories about your gardens in Chicago and São Paulo; your city balconies and country potagers; your courtyards in Texas and Tokyo; your roses and your cacti; your sunny apartment windowsill herbs and snow-covered backyards. We want to see your potting sheds and your pool houses and the potted plants on your front stoops. Tell us how you've solved your irrigation problems, or how you've thwarted the neighborhood deer or the summer's dust storms or last year's monsoons. Are you an indoor gardener? Let us in on the secret of how you've managed to keep a fiddle leaf fig tree alive for more than ten minutes.
Our motto is: No garden too small. No garden too modest. If you love yours, share it with us. Send us your stories so we can feature them on Gardenista. Here's how:
- Email photos or a link to your photos to us at edit(at)remodelista.com.
- If we choose your garden, we will interview you and feature your story in an upcoming Garden Visit post.
For more inspiration, here are a few favorite private gardens we've featured recently:
Above: We toured Sophie Gee's garden in Brooklyn. Read more about how she and her husband carried potting soil (one bag at a time) through the house to reach the backyard in The Magicians: An English Professor and a Novelist Conjure a Garden in Brooklyn. Photograph by Nicole Franzen.
Above: In Garrison, NY, Grace Kennedy shared her secret recipe for perennial beds that flower all autumn long: white Phlox paniculata 'David'; Echinacea 'Coconut Lime'; Platycodon; Aster 'Bluebird' and Digitalis ferruginea are involved. For more, see It's High Season in Grace Kennedy's Garden. Photograph by Meredith Heuer.
Above: In Barcelona, José Farriol told us the story of how it took him 25 years to create a fairyland garden—with vines four stories high, eggplants the size of bowling balls, and shady grapevine arbors—on the site of an abandoned 19th century factory. See more at The Best Secret Garden in Barcelona. Photograph by Pancho Tolchinsky.
Above: In one of our all-time most popular garden posts, Litchfield County resident Michael Leva sent us a photo of his granite kitchen stoop (circa 1700) flanked by boxwood and a myrtle topiary. See more in Spring Comes to Connecticut. Photograph courtesy of Michael Leva.
Above: Claire Stansfield invited us to her home on top of a mountain above Hollywood to see her greenhouse plants (and magnificent flower beds) in A Secret Garden Tucked into the Hollywood Hills.
Above: Prince Charles sent us photos of his prize foxgloves (and "The Stumpery" his father detests) at Highgrove. (OK, maybe it was Kendra who procured the photos, but still—an intimate corner of one of the world's most famous private gardens). Photograph by Andrew Lawson. See more in At Home with Prince Charles: A Garden Ramble.
As you can see, this list is missing a lot of wonderful gardens—like yours! Please send photos.