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10 Ideas to Steal from Desert Gardens
Desert landscapes look like the backdrops in old cartoons, endless loops showing a lone cactus silhouetted against the sky while Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote tussle in the dusty foreground. The...
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Object of Desire: La Tente Islaise Canvas Beach Tents from France
New from industrial designer Brice Ceccaldi: simple, appealing cotton canvas tents that provide protection from sun, wind, and rain during summertime idylls. Ceccaldi has spent every recent summer on...
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Gardening 101: Agave
Agave, Agave americana: “Century Plant” Sometimes even in a very small garden you need something dramatic, a focal point that catches the eye. You might consider installing an ornament—an urn or a...
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Everything You Need to Know About Arbors
It’s important to make an entrance at a party or in garden. For a party, you need charisma and of course the right shoes. For a garden, all you need is an arbor, preferably covered in glorious...
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10 Easy Pieces: Stone Deck Tiles
With stone deck tiles, installing a floor outdoors can be as easy as snapping together Lego pieces. Many natural stone tiles are mounted on plastic interlocking bases and can be laid without glue or...
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Gardening 101: Lobelias
Lobelia, Lobelia erinus: “Summer Color” Lobelia is a go-to flower to add showy, delicate blooms to your borders, window boxes, or hanging baskets. This non-stop annual flower has fine foliage and...
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Required Reading: Skymeadow by Charlie Hart
Skymeadow by Charlie Hart is part autobiography, part garden how-to, and part self-help book for anyone suffering from a bereavement or anxiety. And I loved it. A couple of years ago, I met Charlie...
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10 Easy Pieces: Outdoor Dining Chairs in Pastel Colors
There’s something refreshing about outdoor dining chairs in color. Mix different shapes and shades to seat your guests for the season’s first foray into outdoor dining. Here’s a roundup of our favorite...
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Gardening 101: Eastern Redbud Trees
Eastern Redbud, Cercis canadensis: “Pea Flowers” In early spring the distinctive and profuse flowers of eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis), a small tree native to eastern and central North America,...
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Landscape Architecture: Zen Garden Meets Desert, for Serenity in Santa Monica
What happens when a Japanese-style garden meets the southern California desert? For the very Zen results, let’s visit a serene gravel courtyard that landscape architecture firm Terremoto designed for...
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Gardening 101: Yuccas
Yucca: “Striking Sword” With more than 50 different species of Yucca, these shrubs hold their own as distinctive and striking evergreen landscape elements. Native to the southwestern United States,...
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10 Easy Pieces: Grass Block Pavers
If you would like to avoid paving paradise to put up a parking lot, as Joni Mitchell put it, grass block pavers can be a greener choice to surface a driveway, patio, or path. Grass block pavers create...
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Required Reading: Botanical by Samuel Zeller
One spring evening in 2015, graphic designer Samuel Zeller got off a train one stop early after a bad day at work in Geneva and visited a botanical garden with a camera. He was not a keen...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Design Ideas for a Mini-Remodel
No need undertake a gut renovation to refresh your home. From small-scale remodel projects (such as adding a screened porch or installing crown molding) to micro-upgrades as simple as adding a colorful...
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Flowering Magnolias: 7 Favorite Trees to Plant
After visiting a place where magnolias grow luxuriantly (like Cornwall in England), it is natural that on arriving home, the idea of growing one takes hold. Not the usual saucer magnolia (M. x...
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Current Obsessions: April Showers, May Flowers
This weekend, as we head into May: flower arranging workshops and a gin distilled from Edinburgh’s botanical garden, plus Brooklyn’s big event. Here’s your weekend reading. Above: Photograph from...
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Everything You Need to Know About Flowering Trees
Thank you flowering trees, for alerting us to the fact that it is definitely spring. We might have missed that development if not for the sudden, glorious explosion of pink and white and purply-tinged...
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Ask The Expert: How to Plant a Meadow Garden, with James Hitchmough
It’s impossible not to be seduced by the drama and scale of meadow and prairie planting and James Hitchmough, a professor at Sheffield University in the UK, has worked on some of the most magical...
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10 Ideas to Steal from Midcentury Modern Gardens
Midcentury modern garden design evolved alongside the breathless optimism of America’s suburbs. In those post-war decades, the prospects of having greater prosperity and more leisure time seemed as...
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Object of Desire: Elegant Ceramic Planters from Hasami Porcelain
New from Hasami Porcelain, one of our favorite purveyors of Japanese ceramics: planters in two sizes and three colors, each made in Japan of a mix of porcelain and earth-colored clay. Hasami has been...
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