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Required Reading: Reconquérir Les Rues by Nicolas Soulier
Here's what bothers author Nicolas Soulier: At some point in time, we stopped feeling like streets were part of our common environment—we stopped strolling along them, stopped playing stickball in...
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How to Eliminate Boxwood Blight: Plant a Different Shrub
A head gardener I know says that he would never plant boxwood now, unless there was a contingency plan. In other words, you need a fund to finance the replacement of said box after it is struck down...
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DIY: Instant Summer Hammock
Nap season is upon us. Prepare yourself by making this easy DIY hammock. Then climb in. Whether you're looking for a quick fix or inspired to whip out the sewing machine and install metal grommets into...
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Hike of the Week: Getting Lost in the Jardins du Palais Royal in Paris
The thing about Paris is, and it's really such a cliché, but it's the best city to get lost in. I'll pick a destination, maybe a shop or restaurant, and just head over to its arrondissement for the...
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Stitch and Hammer: Denim and Stripes Apron
With so many beautiful aprons out there, it's hard to single out just one. But I've had my eyes on this handsome denim and stripes apron lately. Above: With a sweet French ticking pocket, I thought it...
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A Magical Garden Where Clouds Grow on a Hillside in Provence
At the age of 69, Nicole de Vésian's real adventure started. Retired from a career of designing hats and linens for Hermès, she decamped to Provence to embark on her most ambitious design project: a...
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A Weekend Playlist That's Blooming With Fresh Flowers
Everywhere we look, something new is in bloom. Even in Manhattan, the rooftops of low-rise buildings suddenly appear more green than grayish, and little white flowers are creeping up shyly through...
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The Garden Designer Is In: Kim Hoyt Architecture/Landscape
This week, Kim Hoyt and Evelyn Zornoza of Kim Hoyt Architecture/Landscape (members of the Remodelista Architect/Designer Directory) discuss a garden renovation with a new deck and two-story steel...
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Sneak Peek No. 2: Gardenista Considered Design Awards Entries
There are only seven days left to submit your photos to the inaugural Gardenista Considered Design Awards. Be sure to get your entries in by next Friday, June 14. Know anyone with a envy-inducing...
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The Magicians: An English Professor and a Novelist Conjure a Garden in Brooklyn
It is probably impossible, if you are an English professor, to look at a garden without thinking of John Keats' "fast-fading violets covered up in leaves" or "the coming musk-rose full of dewy wine"—or...
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Marble and Milkweed: Rose & Chamomile Facial Scrub
I've mentioned before my preference for only putting things onto my face if I can pronounce them. (See, DIY: A Beauty Mask Made from Flowers). Happily, every single ingredient in this Rose and...
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10 Easy Pieces: Garden Trellises
Whether you've got your sights set on a blush-pink New Dawn climbing rose or you're hankering for a fragrant pop of yellow in the form of a Graham Thomas, we've got the trellises you'll need to train...
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The 7 Best Climbing Roses for Your Garden
Standing tall in my back garden is a large crab apple tree that I disdain but for one attribute: it is the best climbing tree around. I'm not talking about for my children, rather for my gorgeous,...
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DIY: Rose Petal Ice Cubes
Remember walking around with a pink-stained tongue all summer long? I don't advocate the return of Kool-Aid to your diet, but if you keep a tray of DIY rose petal ice cubes in the freezer, you will be...
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A Walk in the Neighborhood with Olivia Rae James
In summertime, is there anything better than an evening walk? In Charleston, South Carolina, photographer Olivia Rae James strolls past antebellum mansions and the rampant jasmine in South of Broad,...
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10 Easy Pieces: Indoor/Outdoor Tool Sets
In the spirit of Father's Day, we've rounded up our ten favorite tool sets—from barbecue tools to woodworking and housecleaning—because a set of beautiful tools is that much more inspiring to work...
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Send Us Your Indoor Garden Pics
There are only three days left to submit your photos to the Gardenista Considered Design Awards, so grab your iPhones and snap some photos of your indoor plants and flowers. The rewards are great—five...
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DIY: Braided Rose Pillars
The best way to get to know a rose is eye to eye, and this is perhaps the reason that England's great gardener Gertrude Jekyll trained roses to grow up and around pillars. If you keep them pruned and...
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Fig and Yarrow: Rose and Vanilla Lip Blush
When we developed the name for this week's issue—American Beauty—we were really talking about roses. But I don't think it's too much of a stretch to also share the lip tint I'm currently coveting. It's...
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Who We're Loving Lately, on Instagram
If there's one social media platform that seems perfectly suited to the garden lovers among us, we think it's Instagram. We've been trying our hand at the craft lately—snapping photos of neighborhood...
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