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10 Easy Pieces: Portable Outdoor LED Lanterns
We like the idea of a multi-tasking outdoor lamp that goes anywhere: the garden, the park, the beach, and back indoors. Here are our picks for portable, rechargeable, and versatile outdoor LED...
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Gardening 101: Skimmia
Skimmia, Skimmia: “Jeeves of Plants” It’s a steadfast evergreen shrub, undemanding and dependable. Often brought out in winter for seasonal displays, skimmia is then wheeled away again. This is a pity...
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Downsizing a House to Expand the Garden: At Home with Landscape Architect...
Though he’s a landscape architect known for designing gardens to complement large houses, Australia-based William Dangar often gets to work with only a little land. Time and again, he says, “the...
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Shopper’s Diary: Leaf Shop Végétal in Paris
If browsing for houseplants at Leaf feels like shopping inside a Parisian greenhouse, it’s no coincidence. Architects Hélène Pinaud and Julien Schwartzmann of Heju Studio, who designed the...
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Privacy Landscaping: How to Use Plants in a City Garden
If you’re lucky enough to have a garden in a big city, you learn to accept the fact that while you’re out there, you’re in full view of everyone whose windows overlook your yard. Hanging an awning over...
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Objects of Desire: Wet Vessels by Aviva Rowley
New York-based ceramist (and florist) Aviva Rowley creates Wet Vessels: vases, planters, and pots with moody, gun-metal glazes. But be warned: each piece is one of a kind, so when it’s sold, it’s gone....
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10 Ideas to Steal from English Cottage Gardens
The best cottage gardens look like they planted themselves. They didn’t, of course. But the design principles they follow are simple. The English invented the cottage garden, probably in the 1400s when...
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10 Easy Pieces: Gate Braces and Brackets
Middle-age sag is the sort of universal problem that even afflicts garden gates. Lucky gates, though—for them there’s an easy fix. Metal braces, brackets, and anti-sag hardware can improve posture...
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Gardening 101: Daphne
Daphne, Daphne: “Pleasantly Spicy” The scent of Daphne precedes it, like the reputation of Daphne, the wood nymph. In Greek mythology, she was so appalled by the lechery of Apollo that she became a...
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English Gardens: The Wild Fritillary Meadows at Oxford University
There is a kind of cult around Fritillaria meleagris—the snake’s head fritillary—to do with its looks and its name and the fact that the kind of garden in which it thrives is not necessarily the kind...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Ways to Use Wood to Warm a Room
Wood is your friend—a welcoming, forgiving surface that instantly warms up a room. This week the Remodelista editors rekindled their romance with larch, walnut, and reclaimed barn siding (stay tuned...
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Everything You Need to Know About Filler Stone for Paths
When laying a path with pavers, you have a choice to fill the gaps with grout, ground cover plants, or filler stones such as gravel or decomposed granite. As a garden designer, I often advocate filler...
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Current Obsessions: Mother Nature
On our radar this weekend: Mother’s Day pop-ups and the return of the geranium. Plus, look no further for all your plant swap needs: Announcing our new Plant Swap Calendar, where we’ll list a selection...
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Hardscaping 101: Outdoor Showers
Outdoor showers are what I look forward to most during our annual summer excursion to the North Carolina shore. More than swimming in the warm ocean, curling up with a book under the umbrella with my...
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10 Things to Do in the Garden in May
You don’t need us to tell you that the very best thing to do in May is to pull a comfortable chair into the garden and settle into it. But after you sit there for awhile, you may want to get more...
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English Gardens: David Austin Roses in Shropshire
Great Britain was awash with patriotic fervor last year as our Queen celebrated her 90th birthday. But there was another national treasure celebrating the same milestone—and just like the Queen, David...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Appalachia
My introduction to Appalachia came when my young, adventurous mom and dad decided to pull up roots and leave New Jersey to pursue a different life in the south, riding an optimistic wave of post-World...
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View-Friendly Cable Railings from Feeney
Have you ever sat down on a deck surrounded by beautiful scenery, hoping to take in the sights, only to discover that a chunky railing is obstructing your view? So have we. Enter sleek, stainless steel...
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Bleeding Hearts and Dutchman’s Breeches: A User’s Guide
Cottage gardeners were only mildly perturbed when the easy-going, arching spring beauty Dicentra spectabilis had its name changed to Lamprocapnos spectabilis. Its common name, bleeding heart, was still...
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Landscape Revival: A Secluded, Historic 1920s Estate in Santa Barbara (Rose...
For a year now we’ve been tracking Brooklyn-based architect Roberto Sosa around the far reaches of the US, from the Hudson Valley to the wild northern coast of Maui, where he’s designed gardens for his...
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