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Hardscaping 101: Design Guide for Paths and Pavers
Wondering where to begin when it comes to paths and pavers? If you’re choosing materials or designing a path or walkway, start with our Paths and Pavers Design Guide. We’ve explored the pros and cons...
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10 Easy Pieces: Gardenista Editors’ Outdoor Dining Essentials
With warm weather approaching, our thoughts turn to alfresco dining: here’s a roundup of the essentials our editors keep on hand to make outdoor dining and entertaining easy: Indestructible Glasses...
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Houseplant Disruptors: The Instant Jungle Courtesy of Bloomscape
How to make living with plants extra-easy for urbanities? In an already overgrown industry, Justin Mast saw a new way in: fast, affordable delivery of mature potted specimens in sizes small, medium,...
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Gardening 101: Fothergilla
The effusive spring froth of fothergilla flowers brightens shady green garden corners and sparkles when planted to catch the backlighting of morning or afternoon sunlight. Long after the flowers are...
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Dine Outdoors Like a French Family: 12 Ideas to Steal
How does a French family dine outdoors? In style, of course, with a certain insouciant mix of high-low: Outdoor furnishings that look just as good indoors during winter months. To create a similar...
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10 Easy Pieces: Tomato Cages
Think of tomato cages as scaffolding: You need a support system to keep vines from sagging (or snapping off) under the weight of heavy fruit. Match the right size cage (or trellis, obelisk, or tepee)...
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Gardening 101: Butterburs
Butterbur, Petasites japonicus: “Waterside Posy” Petasites japonicus is a decorative waterside plant that dies down in winter, reemerging as cabbage-like posies that are ready to go when everything...
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Mosquito Repellent: 5 Flowers and Herbs to Keep Pests Away
Mosquito repellent plants are garden heroes: colorful flowers and herbs with natural fragrances that chase away buzzing insects even as their perfumes soothe humans. The first step in your plan to...
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10 Easy Pieces: Rattan Hanging Chairs
Treat yourself to a time out in a hanging chair. Here’s a roundup of our rattan-inspired favorites. Take note that natural rattan is best when it’s kept in a dry location—perfect for hanging on a...
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Glass Menagerie: Artist Steffen Dam’s Invented Natural World
Here in the northeast as we desperately await winter’s last gasp, I’ve taken solace in the invented, season-less worlds of Steffen Dam. Working entirely in glass, the Danish artist builds natural...
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Announcing Our New Guide to Herbs
With spring under way, we’re excited to announce that our family of Garden Design 101 guides is expanding this week—with our new Herbs 101 guide. Whether you’re designing a new herb garden, choosing...
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Houseplants: How to Decode the Info on Plant ID Tags
You know those little plastic ID tags that come tucked into the pots or flats of plants you buy at a shop or nursery? The tags you usually toss as soon as you get home? Join the club: few gardeners pay...
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10 Easy Pieces: Galvanized Trough Planters
Can you name one potted plant that wouldn’t look great peeking over the edge of a galvanized metal trough? Me neither. And let us not forget this is the sort of planter that improves with age. Sturdy,...
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Gardening 101: Italian Arum
Italian Arum, Arum Italicum: “Italian Marble” Italian Arum is companionable and well-behaved in a tapestry of ground covers—at least in Europe. In areas that are shady and a little damp, the marbled...
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The Houseplant Diaries: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Finicky Ferns
It all started off so well. My delta maidenhair fern was my pride and joy, its delicately drooping fronds hanging over my bathroom sink. Then winter came, the radiator switched on, and my fern’s leaves...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Design Ideas to Steal from Commercial Kitchens
Chefs’ kitchens are designed for efficiency and utility. Where better to find inspiration for your own kitchen remodel? The Remodelista editors spent the week sleuthing out the best design ideas from...
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Landscaping Ideas: 11 Design Mistakes to Avoid
Early spring is the season of hope: for the most beautiful garden ever. And you can have that. You also can lay the most charming front path in the history of hardscaping projects. And create the most...
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Current Obsessions: Notes on Earth Day
Among the things we’ve bookmarked on the eve of Earth Day: a weekly flower pop-up in Dobbs Ferry, a native plants sale, and the season’s most anticipated (and morbid) bloom. Take a look. Above: Alexa...
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Container Gardening: Sarah Raven’s 7 Tips for Perfect Flower Pots
Perfecting the art of container gardening is no mean feat but Sarah Raven, the Sussex-based author, grower, cook, and lifestyle guru, has built a business on her skill in combining plants. She also has...
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How to Navigate the NYC Flower Market
Does the thought of a trip to the flower market make your palms sweat? Maybe I’m projecting, but I think big city flower markets can be unnerving for most people: The crowds. The hustle. The options....
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