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City Gardens: MINI Terrariums from Brooklyn
From his Brooklyn-based studio designer Huy Bui co-created Plant-in City, a project to pair plants with sleek wood and metal to create a new kind of 21st-century terrarium. His latest venture is a new...
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Flower Season: An Under-the-Radar Guesthouse in South Africa
When I asked my local traveling friends where to stay during the spring flower season in Namaqualand’s Hantam region, Papkuilsfontein came out tops. But Mariëtte van Wyk, the elegant farmer's wife who...
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10 Easy Pieces: Leather Work Gloves
There is no such thing as bad gardening weather. If you disagree, the problem may be bad gardening gear. Prepare for the elements and you'll find winter garden chores bracing. Promise. Keep hands warm...
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DIY Pressed Flowers: No-Fuss Art Frames from Copenhagen
Finally, instant pressed flowers. Copenhagen design team Anders Thams and Martin D. Christensen have created the Moebe frame, a simple affair consisting of two sheets of plexiglass framed by four slim...
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8 Houseplant Ideas to Steal from a Grand Parisian Escalier
One day last summer photographer Mimi Giboin just happened to be in Paris at the right time to capture our friend Tom de Fleurs‘s tiny courtyard garden, looking its summer best, on Rue Bichat. At the...
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Before & After: An Airy Gravel Garden for a Midcentury British House in West...
When Vanessa Barlow and Jethro Marshall bought their midcentury house in the British coastal town of West Dorset 11 years ago, the existing large lawn (which was surrounded by mature trees, shrubs, and...
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Object of Desire: Basket Weave Concrete Plant Pots
I have no trouble falling in love with plants—I bring so many home, like strays, that my family had to put a cap on it: five a month. But pots and planters are a different story; it’s much harder to...
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African Violets: Rethinking ‘America’s Favorite House Plant’ for Modern Times
The African violets discovered in Africa in 1892 by a colonial plantation owner named Baron Walter von Saint Paul-Illaire had clusters of velvety blue flowers. So did all the plants grown from the...
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Everything You Need to Know About Bulbs and Tubers
Without bulbs and tubers there would be no springtime. Tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, squill, snowdrops, and muscari are waking up beneath the crusty grim earth as I type, preparing to break...
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5 Favorites: Scented Sweet Box for Winter Perfume
Even if it wasn’t just about the only thing around at this time of year that offers top-flight perfume, as well as elegant looks, Sarcococca would deserve to be grown more. Added to its sensory appeal...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from the Dutch Masters
On my recent visit to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the crowds were there to see Johannes Vermeer. I struggled to see each work in the exhibit, including A Lady Writing, one of my...
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Twiggy: 7 Favorite Shrubs with Winter Blooms and Berries
With their delicate blossoms and brilliantly colored berries, the twigs of winter deserve applause. Branches look like floral arrangements in the garden (and can also be brought indoors). On a recent...
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Trending on Remodelista: European Romance, 5 Ways
The Remodelista editors celebrated Valentine’s Day by embracing romantic European design gestures. Here are five of their favorite ideas. Ceramic Trays Above: See more of this ceramic tray (and tips to...
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Expert Advice: 8 Best Garden Roses for Cutting, from a Boutique Grower
What makes a garden rose a good cutting rose? Is it simply a long life span in a vase, or should the plant’s growth habit, its posture and poise, be considered too? Or is a good rose to arrange simply...
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Current Obsessions: Into the Tropics
We’re turning our attention from Europe (Paris, softly hued arrangements) and toward the tropics. Here’s what we’re noting, from an exhibit on botanicals to an upcoming talk on creating a cutting...
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7 Secrets: How to Save a Dying Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree
I suppose it is a good thing that houseplants don’t have hands because it means they can’t type. Otherwise my fiddle leaf fig tree would be writing a post for its blog right now, begging for help: “Get...
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7 Fragrant Favorites: Winter-Flowering Scented Shrubs
On one of the somewhat rare sunny winter days here in England, I noticed a discernibly different smell in the air. What was it, I wondered as I ventured out the other day, almost blinded by the...
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Gardening 101: Palms
Palms, Arecaceae: “Palm Family” The palm tree: With its tall slightly curving trunk festooned with a topknot of bright green fronds, it is a ubiquitous and iconic image that calls to mind associations...
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Letter from California: Lotusland Survives Fire and Fury in Montecito
When Dreamscapes, a new book of garden photography by our contributor Claire Takacs, arrived this month one of the gardens featured—the entrancing and somewhat mystical Lotusland on the coast of...
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Kalanchoe: Rethinking a Kitschy Houseplant
Kalanchoe is a common sight at garden centers. With its bright red, yellow, or orange flowers, the blooming succulent is sold as a small greenhouse plant. So I was surprised to see the other day at my...
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