A Gardener Never Sleeps: Your Winter To-Do List
The leaves have all fallen and collected themselves at the base of the trees, on the lawn, and in the beds. The deciduous shrubs and bushes stand naked and upright. With the exception of the...
View ArticleTrending on Remodelista: Feeling Green
If you’re a fan of the color green, as we are, this is the season for you. Over on Remodelista, we spotted lovely iterations of the hue this week. Plus: Kitchen of the Week: A New Kitchen “Fully...
View ArticleQuick Takes Special Edition: Our Experts Reveal Their Favorite Go-to Plants
If you’re not a paid subscriber to Gardenista and Remodelista, you’re in for a treat this month. Every Sunday until the end of the year, we’re opening up Quick Takes content—normally reserved for...
View ArticlePuntarelle: A Chicory Armed with Spears
At a cool season farmer’s market, you may meet a leafy green vegetable that looks like a cross between a giant dandelion and asparagus. There are the long, toothed dandelion leaves, and there, enclosed...
View ArticleHoliday Gift Guide: The 10 Best Garden Books to Give This Year
It was a great year for garden (and garden-adjacent) books with dozens of titles that caught our attention in 2024. The task of narrowing down a list of our favorite books to give as gifts was...
View ArticleNote to Developers: Every Mixed Use Skyscraper Needs a Grow Room
Recently opened: the first phase of 505 State Street, featuring a Grow Room filled with plants and natural light. Run without fossil fuels, the 44-story building is touted as New York’s first...
View ArticleGround Rules: Lindsey Taylor Shares Her Tips for a More Sustainable Landscape
This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to toxic-free, nature-based gardening, on how you can be more sustainable in your landscapes at home. This fall, Edwina von...
View ArticleBirdbath Basics: 5 Types of Watering Holes for Your Garden
Our colleague Marie Viljoen’s post last month, Help Birds in the Winter: 12 Tips for Food, Lodging, and Bird Safety, was a good reminder that not all birds migrate in the colder months and that those...
View ArticleHoliday Wishes from Gardenista
Happy holidays and happy solstice, one and all! This week, we’ll be revisiting our favorite stories from 2024; stay tuned for the year’s greatest hits, plus the latest edition of The Editors’ Cut and a...
View ArticleQuick Takes Special Edition: The Worst Plants to Grow in Your Garden,...
If you’re not a paid subscriber to Gardenista and Remodelista, you’re in for a treat this month. Every Sunday until the end of the year, we’re opening up Quick Takes content—normally reserved for...
View ArticleGreatest Hits 2024: Ideas to Steal from This Year’s Chelsea Flower Show
All week, we’re resurfacing the most popular posts published on Gardenista this year. If this story is new to you, enjoy! And if you’ve already read this before, we hope you’ll like it just as much as...
View ArticleGreatest Hits 2024: Chicken of the Woods—A Beginner-Friendly Mushroom to Hunt...
All week, we’re resurfacing the most popular posts published on Gardenista this year. If this story is new to you, enjoy! And if you’ve already read this before, we hope you’ll like it just as much as...
View ArticleGreatest Hits 2024: Experts’ Favorite Native Plant Combinations
All week, we’re resurfacing the most popular posts published on Gardenista this year. If this story is new to you, enjoy! And if you’ve already read this before, we hope you’ll like it just as much as...
View ArticleGreatest Hits 2024: A Garden from Scratch—How to Start Designing Your Outdoor...
All week, we’re resurfacing the most popular posts published on Gardenista this year. If this story is new to you, enjoy! And if you’ve already read this before, we hope you’ll like it just as much as...
View ArticleGreatest Hits 2024: Move Over, Monstera—The Year’s New Houseplant Trends
All week, we’re resurfacing the most popular posts published on Gardenista this year. If this story is new to you, enjoy! And if you’ve already read this before, we hope you’ll like it just as much as...
View ArticleThe Editors’ Cut: 15 Accessories for the Doting Houseplant Parent
Welcome to The Editors’ Cut, our recently launched column dedicated to all things beautiful and useful for the garden, patio, porch, and terrace. Each month, we’ll do an obsessive dive into the latest...
View ArticleQuick Takes Special Edition: The Best Gardening Hacks, According to Our Experts
If you’re not a paid subscriber to Gardenista and Remodelista, you’re in for a treat this month. Every Sunday until the end of the year, we’re opening up Quick Takes content—normally reserved for...
View ArticleCheers! Two New Cocktails for New Year’s Eve
While classic cocktails are timeless for a reason (they’re good!), a fresh year inspires a fresh approach, and newly-paired flavors on the tongue. Here are two festive New Year’s Eve cocktails to...
View ArticleThrough the Bar and Up the Stairs: A Medicinal Rooftop Garden Above Honey’s...
A mead refresher: This alcoholic bracer made from fermented honey has ancient cultural associations. Paired in the fermenting process with any combination of botanicals, unusual fruit and wild yeasts,...
View ArticleHappy New Year from Gardenista
Happy New Year, and thanks for joining us for another year of design and garden inspiration. We’re grateful to every subscriber, commenter, longtime reader, and new follower. As we head into 2025,...
View ArticleObject of Desire: Alitex Victorian Greenhouses
If you are lucky enough to have some surplus space in your garden or on your property, the idea of adding a greenhouse has likely crossed your mind. And if you are familiar with Alitex‘s collection of...
View ArticleLawn Begone: 8 Ideas for Front Garden Landscapes
They say you are what you wear. This is also true of your house. Your front yard makes a strong first impression. Here are seven of our favorite landscaping ideas to dress up the place: 1. Flower...
View ArticleTrending on Remodelista: Personality-Filled Homes
Just like us, Remodelista last week republished the most popular posts of 2024. And just like us, its readers seem to gravitate most toward stories that showcase the real, lived-in homes of regular...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Junior Schouten
We are such unabashed fans of Brooklyn Grange and what they do: promoting, designing, building, and maintaining sustainable urban green spaces. If you want to visit their projects, you’ll likely have...
View ArticleCandied Citrus Peel: A Fun and Delicious Winter Project
A recent search for ready-made candied citrus peel to include in a recipe for Stollen, a sweet German Christmas loaf, ended in frustration. All I could find were syrupy strips of candied orange peel at...
View ArticleAsk the Experts: Landscape Designers Share 14 Predictions and Trends for 2025
Gardens don’t follow trends quite like fashion does, but styles, favored plants, and maintenance routines are always evolving. So, we asked eight garden pros to share their predictions for the year...
View Article5 Clues Winter Reveals About Your Garden
January generally doesn’t top anyone’s list of ideal times to take a stroll around the garden—but it should. Beyond the quiet stillness and simple grace of winter, there is information to be learned...
View ArticleGarden Visit: San Francisco’s Historic Conservatory of Flowers
As soon as it gets cold and wintry outside, I act like a moth to a flame and instantly gravitate to greenhouses, garden stores, and humid conservatories. One historic indoor spot that I have been...
View Article11 Ways to Keep Houseplants Happy this Winter
Whether your potted plants live indoors year round or have sought temporary shelter from freezing temperatures, they may be looking a little sad these days. Are you doing something wrong? Or have they...
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: LA on Our Minds
This week we are reminded that home is not just a structure but a collection of memories, a connection to what we love, a safe space to retreat to, where years of planning and life savings take the...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Jennifer Jewell
With a floral designer and a wildlife biologist as parents, is it any wonder that Jennifer Jewell would grow up to be an avid gardener? She’s the creator, executive producer, and primary host of...
View ArticlePistachio Fir Cookies: A Green Gluten-Free Treat
One winter, around the time I was tinkering again with recipes for fragrant fir needles, I received a gift of beautifully packaged pistachios. The nuts were tiny and perfect, grown in Afghanistan. The...
View ArticleRequired Reading: ‘Your Natural Garden’ by Kelly D. Norris
After horticulturalist Kelly D. Norris finished writing New Naturalism (the award-winning 2021 book now in its sixth printing), he didn’t have to think hard about what his next book project would be....
View ArticleGardening 101: Bluestar
Blue is a magical and rare color in nature. Yes, the sky is blue, and so are some seas (under the right conditions), but not many flowers are blue. In centuries past, painters made the color from...
View ArticleLandscape Architect Visit: Scott Lewis Turns A Small SF Backyard Into an...
“We had this idea of making a green cube in the back of the garden,” says San Francisco-based landscape architect Scott Lewis. And as you can see, it was an excellent idea. In a small city backyard,...
View ArticleA Room of One’s Own: 15 Inspired Garage Conversions
I’ve been noticing quite a few garage conversions on my daily get-me-away-from-my-kids-before-I-implode walks. Makes sense. As remote work becomes the norm for many families, homeowners are...
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: Peace and Quiet
For your weekend to-do list: send seeds to LA, read the book on plants that made multiple best-of-year lists, DIY a lamp from a found object, and more. Help re-seed Altadena. (And if you’re in NYC,...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Kelly D. Norris
Some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Kelly D. Norris was born “with a trowel in his hands,” wrote Gardenista contributor Melissa Ozawa, in her story about his “New Naturalism”...
View ArticleYuzu Syrup: It’s a Tea, a Marmalade, and a Tonic
Floral and bright, the scent of yuzu, a small citrus fruit with aromatic skin and little juice, is unique. If you could inhale the uplifting aroma released by an opened jar of the yuzu syrup that I...
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