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DIY: How to Stop Killing Your Indoor Succulents
I've killed every succulent I've ever attempted to grow. Things start off well enough, but a few weeks after I bring succulents into my home, they start to look spindly and sad before giving up and...
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Why Is My Smoke Alarm So Obnoxious?
My middle daughter is home from New York for a visit. It's been a week of reminiscing and doing all the things she loves from childhood: baking cookies, hiking up Mt. Tamalpais, getting frozen yogurt...
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Hotels & Lodging: Hotel San José in Austin, Texas
Hotel San José was the first in a series of collaborations between San Antonio–based Lake Flato Architects and hotelier Liz Lambert, the creative force behind Bunkhouse Management (subsequent projects...
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The Polls Are Open! Vote for Your Favorite Projects in the Gardenista...
We're thrilled to report that we received more than 500 entries to the inaugural Remodelista and Gardenista Considered Design Awards. After lengthy deliberation, our editors have chosen the finalists....
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The Most Beautiful Watering Can Ever?
I didn't know it was possible to fall in love with a watering can until I saw the x3 from Kontextur—and I am smitten. Kontextur, the design house best known for its cleverly designed bathroom...
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How to Transform An Abandoned Parking Lot Into a Wildlife Habitat, Marfa Edition
If there's one spot in the middle of nowhere that I'm desperate to visit, it's Marfa, Texas. You too? Well, allow me to stoke the flames. Last week I had the opportunity to ask landscape architect...
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10 Tips for a Simplified Garden, to Grow More With Less
It has been more than three years since I last wrote about My Neighbor Bea, a person who has persuaded her family (including her husband, Scott, her two sons and a tiny dog) to live with less stuff...
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A Modern Portable Fireplace
Japanese industrial designer Ryosuke Fukusada studied and worked in Milan, spending four years as assistant designer to Patricia Urquiola before setting up his own design studio in Japan. Collaborating...
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DIY: The Best Garden Insecticide (and No Harmful Chemicals)
To repel spiders, aphids, and other insect pests in the garden, my neighbor Bea douses plants with an all-natural insecticide she makes with Castile soap. It's a genius recipe. Made with olive oil,...
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Cactus as Glamorous Privacy Fencing
Forget bamboo. For privacy fencing, consider a centuries-old Mexican method: plant cacti. We spotted a cactus privacy wall at El Montero, a south-of-the-border restaurant where you can dine al fresco...
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Colorful Concrete Planters by Mary Martha Collins
Admired in an SF urban garden by landscape architect Scott Lewis: a cheery red concrete planter by Mary Martha Collins, a California-based artist who specializes in vibrantly hued concrete vessels...
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A Texas Garden Where the Rare and the Endangered Flourish
An hour's drive north of Houston is Peckerwood Garden, with seven acres of rare and vanishing plants—many of them desert specimens that architecture professor John G. Fairey brought home from the high...
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Dining on Succulents: Purslane Salad with Watermelon
Last week, we asked New York photographer and nutritionist Rebecca Baust of The Daily Muse to hit the greenmarkets in search of one of our favorite edible greens: purslane. In a genius move, she paired...
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10 Easy Drought and Pollution Tolerant Perennials for the Concrete Jungle
I remember summers in New York. Whenever any of my entourage managed to score a piece of outdoor real estate, it immediately became a community garden with all of us. We chipped in with the buying,...
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Hijo in Austin: A Garden Shop in a Shed at Jardineros Nursery
The new version of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" might as well be the "Six Degrees of Liz Lambert," at least if you're living in the Southwest. Good things happen when the Texas hotelier's friends meet....
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Spanish-Style Window Grilles and Registers
On a recent visit to the historic Spanish Colonial Revival-style Biltmore Hotel in Santa Barbara, I was enchanted by so many of the architectural details. My favorite? The sculptural and subtly ornate...
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The View is Grand: Enchanted Rock in the Texas Hills
When we reached the Hill Country on our recent New York City Audubon Society tour of Texas, locals advised us to make a stop at a park known as the Enchanted Rock State Natural Area. The eponymous...
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Required Reading: Beth Chatto's 5 Favorite Flowers for a Gravel Garden
The first thing that strikes me on entering garden designer Beth Chatto's gravel garden in Essex early in the morning is the scent of herbs. Thyme? Marjoram? Sage? They are here in abundance because...
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Expert Advice: 10 Things You Need to Know to Survive in the Desert
I'm spoiled in Northern California: even though I'm a novice gardener, every experience I've had with a container, a raised bed, or a small plot has been relatively easy. Since I recently finished...
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Vote for the Best Architectural Garden Feature in the Gardenista Considered...
Follow the link below to vote for the Gardenista finalists in the Best Architectural Garden Feature category, designed by professionals. You can vote once a day in each category now through July 15. On...
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