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10 Easy Pieces: Cafe-Style Outdoor String Lights
If one of your jobs as a child was to follow your mother through the backyard, slowly unfurling garlands of glowing bulbs for her to wrap around the trunk of the crabapple tree and drape across the...
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Gardening 101: How to Care for an Orchid
A lot of people bemoan their incompetence at growing orchids. I have the opposite problem—an inability to kill my scraggly supermarket-variety species after they stop blooming. Here's my secret: I...
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9 Foolproof Ideas to Add Color to a Flower Garden
For gardeners who crave color—and really, who among us is immune?—the sudden decline from a giddy, glorious springtime into the dusty doldrums of summer can be a terrible shock to the system. So fight...
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Landscaping 101: Pros and Cons of Homemade Weed Killer
In today's atmosphere of increasing environmental awareness, one can find any number of manuals for the would-be eco-MacGyver looking to whip up natural alternatives to harsh chemicals. One of the most...
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DIY: How to Care for Aloe Vera, the Plant of Immortality
Growing up in a beach town, I saw my fair share of sunburns. (We were a bit more lax about sunscreen in those days). Luckily my stepmother always had an aloe vera on hand to soothe my sun-kissed...
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Secrets of Brooklyn: Shop Outdoor Style from Landscape Designer Julie Farris
Maybe you just moved to an apartment with a balcony you want to turn into an outdoor living space. Or a rooftop begging to become a garden. Wouldn't it be nice to have a top garden designer help you...
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Landscaping 101: How to Kill Poison Ivy
Poison ivy was making enemies as early as the 17th century. Upon discovering it in the New World, Captain John Smith noted in 1623, "The poysoned weed is much in shape like our English Ivy, but being...
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GROW London: A Contemporary Garden Fair Returns to Hampstead Heath
Pack up your plants, Chelsea Flower Show. The second annual GROW London garden fair is coming to London's Hampstead Heath next month. We had so much fun co-sponsoring the contemporary design fair last...
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Prefab in Paris: Chic in Suburbia with a Modern Family House
Working with a budget of €650,000 and a desire to bypass "outdated planning regulations," Paris-based architects Djuric Tardio envisioned a new kind of family home in suburbia. The result? A thoroughly...
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DIY: How to Make a Vase of Cut Flowers Last a Week
A good garden is always in flux, introducing new colors, and textures throughout the season. The same can be said for the best bouquets. But while we celebrate the vicissitudes of nature, we tend to...
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Trending on Remodelista: Tiny Summer Cottages to Covet
Julie and the Remodelista editors issued a spring manifesto this week, "to take the pulse of everything new and interesting in design." Under scrutiny: leather butterfly chairs, un-grandmotherly tiles,...
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Current Obsessions: La Dolce Vita
With outdoor dinners and patio parties on the mind, here are a few things that piqued our interest this week: Above: We love this DIY patio seating idea. How to cook artichokes. A genius air-purifier...
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Table of Contents: Summer Preview
We're counting down the days to summer. Join us this week for landscaping tips from the wild gardens of London and the roof gardens of Brooklyn—plus, ideas for mown paths to make the world feel green...
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Brooklyn Oasis: A City Roof Garden, Before and After
A never-ending real estate dilemma is whether it is better to rent or to buy. For one lucky Brooklyn tenant, renting is clearly the way to go. Â Her apartment is on the top floor of an elegant, newly...
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10 Easy Pieces: Garden Trugs
Centuries ago, the idea came from Sussex: bentwood baskets with a handle to transport vegetables from the garden or market. But it wasn't until Queen Victoria fell for a garden trug she saw one day in...
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Hardscaping 101: Green Roofs
In our ideal world, green roofs would be ubiquitous—we're thinking Scandinavia from the time of the Vikings until the late 19th century. And no, it’s not because we are nostalgic for a more picturesque...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from the 2015 Chelsea Flower Show Winner
Dan Pearson has been designing gardens since kindergarten, and in adult life he has embraced the opportunity to shift landscapes (the Tokachi Millennium Forest in Japan) and create new ones in odd...
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Wolf Hall On Location: Chalfield Manor
Great Chalfield in Wiltshire was built a year before the birth of Henry VIII, so it was still sparkling when he came to the throne at the age of 18. Playing the part of the Cromwell family home in the...
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Stylish Planters from Copenhagen, by Way of Tuscany
Victor Berg started out as a florist in the Norrebro neighborhood of Copenhagen in 1942; he was successful enough to add two additional locations and to start a flowerpot import business, sourcing his...
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Landscaping 101: How to Deadhead Flowers
Every summer there's a peak season, when all the flowers in my garden decide to bloom in concert. This grand collusion lasts for...a day? Maybe two. The rest of the year I spend coaxing everybody into...
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