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Considered Design Awards 2018: Submit Entries Starting on June 1
The Gardenista Considered Design Awards are back—and we’re inviting all readers, professional designers and amateur gardeners alike, to submit your best efforts to this year’s contest. The awards are...
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Chelsea Flower Show 2018: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Designer Sarah Price’s...
Designer Sarah Price makes gardens which garden editors adore. She is an artist who sculpts with aggregate and tough plants and she never looks ruffled. Her gardens hum with energy and authenticity...
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10 Easy Pieces: Reel Lawn Mowers
No wonder it sounds like scissors. With “seven hardened, sharp cutting blades on a ball-bearing shaft,” a manually operated lawnmower (shown above) from the 100-year-old American Lawn Mower Company...
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Gardening 101: Barrenwort
Barrenwort, Epimedium: “Bishop’s Hat” “Now that’s a good plant,” knowledgeable gardeners will say, on seeing a shapely huddle of epimedium’s heart-shaped leaves in a well-planned woodland garden. They...
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Chelsea Flower Show 2018: Heart and Soul at the Lemon Tree Trust Garden
Gardening is an imaginative response to a crisis and the Lemon Tree Trust garden on Main Avenue at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show is full of good ideas. The trust’s Texan founders believe that a...
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Candy Crush: A Dutch Model Moonlights as Brooklyn’s Botanic Baker
Plan B is the looming question for fashion models. Rather than joining her confreres in acting class or hoping to launch her own fashion label, Kristel van Valkenhoef of Wilhelmina NY and Elite Paris...
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Gardening 101: Lady’s Mantle
Lady’s Mantle, Alchemilla mollis: “Gentle Alchemy” Alchemilla mollis is ubiquitous in English cottage gardens for good reason. Lady’s mantle is an unfussy, low-maintenance plant that looks fabulous at...
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One Week Left: Enter to Win $20,000 from Remodelista, Plus $5,000 Toward Tile...
Thinking of embarking on a remodel this spring (or anytime for that matter)? We want to help. Our mission has always been to provide remodeling inspiration, ideas, and advice, and now we’ve partnered...
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Landscaping with Trees: The Best Design for Your Garden
Trees can bring height, structure, and drama to borders, not to mention some precious winter interest. But planting around them can be daunting: Will they suck up all the water? Will trees eventually...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Creative Designs to Make a Home Feel Brand-New
Look at a room through new eyes, and who knows what you’ll see? This week the Remodelista editors discovered new creative designs to make a home feel brand new. Your First Sofa Above: Founded by Nidhi...
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Chelsea Flower Show 2018: Peas, Please
A Chelsea Flower Show garden can be a way of raising awareness for a cause, it can be a living-and-breathing designer resumé, or it can help to sell product. In which case, it had better have a lot of...
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Current Obsessions: Into Summer
What we’re up to and admiring this weekend, the unofficial kick-off to summer. (Plus: the last days to enter our giveaway, and the launch of the 2018 Considered Design Awards.) Here’s your weekend...
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Cottage Gardens: Favorite Flowers, with Grace Alexander’s Seeds
Behind a little row of thatched church cottages in the picture-postcard village of Corfe, Somerset lies Grace Alexander’s magical flower garden. The florist turned seed grower has transformed a third...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Spain
Spanish gardening owes its traditions to centuries of invaders: Romans, Visigoths, Arabs, and Habsburgs (who infiltrated by marriage). Along with their armies, they brought their ideas for how to cope...
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Foxgloves: Rethinking a Fickle Flower
Foxgloves behave like a bad boyfriend. Owing to their biennial nature and a tendency to self-sow freely, foxgloves usually don’t show up when or where you expect them. After they’ve trained you not to...
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Recipe: A Favorite Sandwich to Take to the Beach
Something about going to the beach makes me instantly hungry. Is it the fresh air, the sunshine–or the knowledge that out on the sand I don’t have immediate access to my refrigerator? For years I have...
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10 Easy Pieces: Picnic Baskets
Why eat indoors for the next three months? Pack up lunch or dinner in a picnic basket. Here are 10 favorite picnic baskets, many with plates, glasses, and cutlery included. No excuses for staying...
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Everything You Need to Know About Tomatoes
Everybody knows a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable, but do we know why? Horticulturally speaking, the answer is simple. True fruits develop from the ovary in the base of a flower and contain the...
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10 Easy Pieces: Garden Hose Hangers
Sometimes you get the most pleasure from a practical object which has been elevated to art form. Here are our 10 favorite garden hose hangers: useful hooks and hardworking wall-mount holders, at prices...
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Gardening 101: Sweetfern
Sweetfern, Comptonia peregrina When most of us think of scent in the garden, we think of perfumed flowers. And flowers are wonderful (if short-lived). But what about aromatic foliage? Choosing a shrub...
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