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Hardscaping 101: Metal Landscape Edging
Metal landscape edging is the little black dress of a garden: elegant, strong yet understated, tailored and timeless. A long-time design secret of professional landscapers, metal has edged its way into...
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Plant of the Week: Wisteria
The charms of wisteria are almost impossible to resist. Lounging languorously over a fence or pergola, the perennial flowering vine will beckon to you with her heady perfume. Before you know it, her...
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Landscaping Ideas: 16 Simple Solutions for Sustainability
Landscaping ideas for sustainable gardens are in the forefront of designers’ minds—and concern about climate change has us all looking for ways we can help. Here is our guide to 16 eco-friendly ways to...
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10 Easy Pieces: Metal Window Boxes
After we posted a story about some of our favorite wooden window boxes, a reader named Chris asked us to suggest some metal window boxes, as well: “It’s hard to find simple, attractive ones; they all...
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Wild Flower Society: 10 Outside-The-Box Native Plants
New England gardeners who look for native species enjoy the happy support of the New England Wild Flower Society, an organization dedicated to the study, preservation, and propagation of the region’s...
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Au Naturel in Auckland: A Beachside Courtyard by Jared Lockhart Design
The city beach in Auckland is one of New Zealand’s busiest. To minimize the impact of heavy foot traffic to a new restaurant at the historic Melanesian Mission building, Herbst Architects and Katie...
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10 Easy Pieces: Rain Barrels
Rain barrels may not be the most glamorous of garden tools but with water shortages on the rise, they have quickly become a crucial component of the smart, sustainable garden. After you set up a...
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Elephant’s Ears: Rethinking Bergenias in the Garden
Bergenias labor under the unflattering name of elephant’s ears but deserve better—they are a great perennial plant to fill awkward spaces or end a border. Typically tolerated as tough ground cover...
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Garden Hacks: 10 Ideas Under $100 to Create Instant Privacy
Instant privacy is the greatest luxury we can imagine in a world where Facebook sells us out to advertisers, hackers know our credit scores, and our eavesdropping Amazon Alexa lets out creepy, maniacal...
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10 Easy Pieces: Rattan Bar Carts
A rattan bar cart is an excellent investment in the sense that you can keep it outdoors for seasonal celebrations and roll it indoors in inclement weather. Plus, its retro-tropical silhouette is...
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Worm London: “Two Girls, a Stack of Books, and Loads of Flowers”
Worm London is a floristry studio that’s run out of a tiny basement in Stoke Newington, east London. The business began two years ago when friends Katie Smyth and Terri Chandler decided it was time to...
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The New Sharing Economy, Plant Swap Edition
Trade you my Tillandsia pup for your green zebra tomato seedlings? Call it the new sharing economy: plant swaps are coming to a neighborhood to you. Plant lovers have always shared the bounty over the...
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Everything You Need to Know About Fountains
A fountain is a celebration. Thousands of years ago, the landscape feature was proof of a successful water delivery system. Water ran downhill into town—if a town was lucky—and there in a central...
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Gardening 101: Western Sword Ferns
Western Sword Fern, Polystichum munitum Western sword fern is the sort of classic fern you are most likely to spot on a shady wooded trail, showing off its root muscles as it clings to rocky slopes or...
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Celebrity Farmer: Meet Jean-Martin Fortier, Canada’s ‘Six Figure’ Organic...
If you’ve not already heard of Jean-Martin Fortier, allow us to introduce you to a rising star, the Canadian organic farmer whose notion of human-scaled, “six-figure farming” is shaking up the fields....
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Before & After: Reclaiming a 17th-Century Garden on Mallorca
Of all the ideas I file away for my someday-house (black-painted floors, a garden above a rocky beach in Maine), I never thought that teules pintades—painted roof tiles from the Medieval era on the...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Ideas for Sustainable Design
This week the Remodelista editors found eco-friendly design solutions: reuse, reclaim, recycle. Here are five of their favorite ideas, from non-disposable drinking straws to non-toxic limewash paints....
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Spurge, Your Secret Weapon: 6 Best Varieties to Plant in the Garden
We think of the spring greens of spurge as heralds of a new season, but there are many evergreen varieties that have been keeping the show on the road all winter as well. While not all spurges are...
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Current Obsessions: The Spring Collection
Among the things that piqued our interest this week? Upcoming plant swaps, a Georgia O’Keeffe–inspired Instagram series, and tips for a bountiful kitchen garden. Read on. Above: A spring windowsill...
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DIY: Make Your Own Wildflower Seed Bombs
Seed bombs are the main weapon guerrilla gardeners can use to spread flowers in bare spots, creating pockets of beauty and habitats for pollinators. Gardening without permission is another way of...
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