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Gardening 101: Trilliums
Trillium, Trillium: “Jewels of the Spring” With their exotic-looking blooms, it is easy to see why trilliums are one of America’s most prized wildflowers. Alas, due to habitat destruction and poaching,...
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Ikea Summer 2018: 10 Best Products for Outdoor Living on a Budget
As if the soft serve ice cream cones ($1) weren’t enough to lure me into braving the crowds at my nearest Ikea store? Ikea’s newest collection of outdoor furnishings, plant pots, and accessories for...
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10 Easy Pieces: Illuminated Pavers
Illuminated pavers sit flush with the surface of a driveway or path, discreetly hiding their powers until the sun goes down. Unlike bollards or landscape lights on poles, illuminated pavers light up...
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Thinking of embarking on a remodel this spring (or any time, for that matter?). We want to help. Our mission has always been to provide remodeling inspiration, ideas, and advice, and now we’ve...
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Light It Up: 7 Elegant Ways to Illuminate a Landscape
Outdoor lighting should be dramatic without being overly theatrical. To create elegant illumination in a landscape, consider all the tools at your disposal—from stairway riser lights to underwater...
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Garden Visit: A Hanging Orchid Garden in San Isidro, Buenos Aires
The San Isidro neighborhood of Buenos Aires is filled with old stone houses, neo-Gothic churches, cobblestone streets, and lush greenery. Huge magnolia and jacaranda trees live happily next to tropical...
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Gardening 101: Cherry Laurel
Cherry Laurel, Prunus laurocerasus: Common Laurel Cherry laurel is a handsome evergreen shrub that will tolerate shade and produces dainty white sweet-smelling flowers in spring. It is fast-growing...
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10 Ideas to Steal from the World’s Biggest Botanical Garden
As the world’s most famous botanic garden, Kew is an awe-inspiring place to visit with vast glasshouses (the newly restored Temperate House which was originally built over four decades, opening in...
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Gardening 101: Tree Heather
Tree Heather, Erica arborea: “The Heather Giant” If heather makes you think of rockeries from the 1970s, tree heather is a revelation. It is graceful, mysterious, show stopping: all the things that...
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Rethinking Poppies: How to Make a Fragile Flower Last Longer
The wild red poppies of Europe (Papaver rhoeas) have symbolized remembrance for soldiers since World War I when poet John McCrae wrote In Flanders Field, describing a landscape where “the poppies blow,...
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10 Easy Pieces: Lighted House Numbers
Entryway lighting, meet your new best friend: house numbers. Whether they’re powered by LED or incandescent bulbs, lighted address plaques will beckon visitors into a warm glow at night. Here are 10...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Elegant Design Ideas, on a Budget
At Remodelista, “spring refresh” is an oxymoron. See five of the editors’ favorite stylish (and budget-friendly) ideas to refresh the interior design of a home: Stylish Hardware Hooks Above: A zinc...
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Everything You Need to Know About Building a Patio
A new patio project can be daunting. If you’re thinking of adding a patio to your backyard or garden, you probably have a few questions. To get some answers, we talked to landscape architect Bay...
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Current Obsessions: The Cutting Garden
Among the items on our (increasingly busy) spring garden calendars: a New York plant pop-up, a California succulents sale, and a festival dedicated to trilliums. Here’s a glimpse. Above: The newest in...
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Gardening 101: String of Pearls
String of Pearls: Senecio rowleyanus The succulent string of pearls, with its small green bubbles along a slender stem, recalls the plastic pop-apart beads of childhood dress-up bins. It can’t help its...
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Landscaping: 10 Classic Layouts for Townhouse Gardens
Small space, infinite possibilities. Behind every city townhouse lies a garden. Some are long and narrow, others short and squat. No matter the size, a well-designed garden is an oasis in a city...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from New Orleans
One morning in 1854, after “thundering into New Orleans” on a riverboat, Frederick Law Olmsted had a bath and breakfast at his hotel and then wandered onto an intoxicating scene: “I was delighted when...
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Object of Desire: A Revolutionary Terra Cotta Pot
Recently an email landed in our inbox with only one line: “Revolutionary terra cotta pots suitable for indoor use.” It got our attention: While we love the look of terra cotta (it’s the linen of the...
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Gardening 101: Wood Anemones
Wood Anemone, A. nemorosa: “Gladed Windflower” “The wood anemone is so often seen in the woods that there is rarely need to grow it,” wrote the wild-gardening plantsman William Robinson in 1883. A rare...
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Everything You Need to Know About Driveways
Driveways are a great improvement over the rutted dirt paths that in centuries past connected houses to public roads. Modern-day suburbia has landscape architects to thank for the invention of the...
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