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Before & After: A Landscape Where ‘Horticultural Worlds Collide’ at Scribe...
In California, our architecture is young. We joined the Union in 1848 and since then have endured so many biblical calamities in the form of fires and earthquake that it’s a shock to find any building...
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Key West’s Secret Garden: A Modern Landscape for an Author’s Victorian Cottage
Three weeks before last year’s hurricane, Key West–based landscape architect Craig Reynolds completed a new tropical garden for one of the best-known Victorian cottages in the island’s historic Old...
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10 Easy Pieces: Flower Frogs
The flower frog is the florist’s best friend, creating a secure base for flowers that would otherwise flop. We’ve rounded up 10 flower frogs in two styles—with sturdy holes to hold soft stems or with...
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Rethinking Anemones: Arranging a Delicate Spring Flower
With their watercolor-paint petals, anemones are one of the daintiest spring flowers. Part of the ranunculus family, and sporting leaves that bring to mind parsley, anemones have a delicate charm and...
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Everything You Need to Know About Cottage Gardens
When the British garden writer Christopher Lloyd declared that “gardening, like living, should be fun,” he must have been thinking about cottage gardens. With their jumble of ornamental flowers, edible...
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Object of Desire: Gardenlust Hose from Lepaar
Australia-based design house Lepaar transforms prosaic products into objects of desire. Lepaar’s collection of garden hoses, appropriately named the Gardenlust line, have handmade brass fittings and...
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Gardening 101: Rhododendrons
Rhododendron, Rhododendron: “Rose Tree” One of the many things I have learned this year as a volunteer working with the tireless organizers of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden plant sale is that shade is...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Australia
Autumn in April is business as usual in Australia. Why have it any other way? As these gardens show, there is a liberation from being closer to the east than the north. Here are 10 modern ideas to...
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Object of Desire: Classic Thonet Garden Furniture from Vienna
In the 19th century, Austrian furniture maker Michael Thonet, the inventor of the bentwood style, brought his five sons into a family business that thrives today. In addition to the gracefully curved...
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Gardening 101: Alpine Strawberries
Alpine Strawberry, Fragaria vesca: “Fraises des Bois” It’s a romantic flower, the little woodland strawberry or fraises des bois. The white blossom-like flowers perfectly complement fresh, trifoliate...
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Current Obsessions: Cinephile
A look at what’s on our radar, this first weekend of March and looking toward spring. Above: Screenings al fresco. Photograph from Garden Muse: A Remodeled Retreat Stays True to Its Roots on Menorca....
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Expert Advice: 10 Tips to Get Your Garden Ready for Spring
Waiting for spring can make you as antsy as waiting for Christmas when you were a kid. Will it ever get here? And then it arrives suddenly…and there’s no more luxurious time to scheme or dream. We...
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From Flora Grubb Gardens: 9 Secrets to Growing Succulent Plants Indoors
I’ve killed every succulent I’ve ever attempted to grow. Things start off well enough, but a few weeks after I bring one into my home, it starts to look spindly and sad before it gives up and dies....
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Gardening 101: Crocus
Crocus, Crocus: “The Early Riser” What will heaven look like when we get there? Emily Dickinson predicted a springtime Resurrection, with “the feet of people walking home” amid clumps of crocuses....
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Instagram
Remember when gardens were outdoors instead of on Instagram? Maybe we can compromise. I spent a couple of hours on the sofa flipping through photos (#itsajob), the modern way to travel around the world...
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10 Easy Pieces: Portable Greenhouses
Is a portable greenhouse the best weapon in a spring garden? My friend Kate, who grew up in Wisconsin where the growing season is very short, recommends germinating seeds in a mini greenhouse on a...
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Rethinking Quince: Styling a Classic Spring Blossom
Quince is often the first sign of spring at the flower market. I breathe a deep sigh of relief upon the first sighting. You can’t go wrong with a large glass vase full of these architectural blossoms...
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In Seattle, An Urban Landscape Designed for Privacy and Indoor/Outdoor Flow
When a young couple found an aging, one-bedroom cottage for sale on the east side of Seattle’s desirable Capitol Hill neighborhood, they looked past its flaws and instead at its generous,...
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10 Easy Pieces: Black Wire Fencing
The little black fence is our new must-have accessory for curb appeal. We’ve long been admirers of the clean, simple lines of hog wire fences, so it’s only natural that we’ve fallen hard for the dark...
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11 Ways to Add Curb Appeal for Under $100
Too many people ignore curb appeal until it’s time to move. Then they spruce up the place for the next residents. How does this make sense? Every time you come home, the sight of your front door should...
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