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Landscaping: 10 Clever Gardening Tips to Save Time
Anyone with a well-tended garden knows the endless hours that can be eaten up by chores. And there’s no finish line in sight—cultivated ground comes with a year-long schedule of planting, weeding,...
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Object of Desire: Pocket Pruner Multi Tool
Call it the Swiss Army knife of the garden. With sturdy beechwood handles, a Pocket Pruner Multi Tool also has a knife blade, can opener, screwdriver, wrench, saw blade, ruler, file, and yes—bottle...
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Gardening 101: Clematis
Clematis: “The Queen of Vines” People who love flowers pretty much agree on their adoration of the exuberant blooms of the clematis vine. What they (and seemingly everyone else in the world) definitely...
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Lost World: Italian Opulence at Villa Balbiano on Lake Como
The Italian lakes were a popular tourist destination as far back as Roman times when the area gained a reputation as a peaceful, rejuvenating spot with a temperate climate, stunning landscape, and...
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Garden Envy: 10 Dramatic Drainage Ideas to Steal
Gravel doesn’t sound like a glamorous hardscaping material. It’s cheap, ubiquitous, and really, well, gravelly. But take a closer look, and you’ll realize that the seemingly mundane material is a...
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Gardening 101: Solomon’s Seal
Solomon’s Seal, Polygonatum: “Shady Savior” As a garden designer, I am often asked to recommend plants that are foolproof, black-thumb proof, and low-maintenance. As well as beautiful, of course! A...
View ArticleEnter Now: Announcing the 2018 Gardenista Considered Design Awards
Calling all gardeners, professionals, and amateurs: We’re now accepting submissions to the 2018 Gardenista Considered Design Awards contest. You have three weeks—until midnight Pacific time on June...
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Everything You Need to Know About North American Native Orchids
Orchids are most often associated with tropical paradises and exotic climes. But did you know that you can also find orchids in your own backyard? Or in local wild habitats, to be more precise....
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Easy Upgrades for Summer Houses
From a coat of “nervy paint” to a faucet upgrade, this week the Remodelista editors discovered easy upgrades to make a summer house feel fresh. Here are five of their favorite design ideas: Eclectic...
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Current Obsessions: Seaside
What’s on the Gardenista editors’ lists and pinboards, this first weekend of June? A new class of woven market bags, a scholarly look at flowers, and the launch of the 2018 Considered Design Awards....
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Ask the Expert: An Insider’s Guide to Swimming Pool Design from Scott Lewis
“A well-designed pool can be a restful, soothing, and sophisticated water element in a landscape,” says Scott Lewis of Scott Lewis Landscape Architecture. Since launching his San Francisco firm in...
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10 Things to Do in the Garden in June
The garden looks as if it is doing fine without any help, thank you. Why do any chores in June? The reason is August—when perennials will flop listlessly, whispering, “Help me, mommy,” with their last...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Amsterdam’s Canal Houses
Amsterdam’s great canals were built in the 17th century, prompting the city’s burgers to rush to build elegantly formal houses on narrow plots of adjacent land. Four hundred years later, the city’s...
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Artful Planters from Belgium
Planters as sculpture: handmade clay vessels from Belgian-based Atelier Vierkant function as art for the garden. In the US, the planters–which “explore the possibilities of organic minimalism in form...
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Gardening 101: Garlic
Garlic, Allium sativum Pungent garlic is one of the most satisfying crops to grow. From a single clove planted the previous autumn comes a full, fat head of aromatically fresh summer garlic, quite...
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Everything You Need to Know About Bearded Iris
After 13 years as head gardener of England’s world-famous gardens at Sissinghurst Castle, Sarah Cook may have been forgiven for putting her feet up when she retired to the beautiful Suffolk...
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10 Easy Pieces: Wicker Sofas
Wicker furniture is woven, and while the wicker sofa may owe its origins to ancient Egypt’s finely woven baskets made of rush, its look can be distinctly modern. Whatever the material—bamboo, cane,...
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Considered Design Awards 2018: Win a $500 Gift Card from Schoolhouse
This year, winners in each of our Considered Design Awards categories will receive a $500 gift card to shop at Portland, Oregon-based Schoolhouse. (Winning projects also will get full profiles on...
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What the Flower: A Hair Salon and Plant Shop in Paris
Lest anyone not know that hair stylist Justine Jeanin is also a #crazyplantlady, she has a tattoo on her forearm of a woman’s head crowned by a tangle of leaves. For many years, the 30-year-old...
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Object of Desire: Folding Plant Shelves
When we discovered the charms of stepladder plant stands, we became secret admirers of all kinds of foldaway display shelves. Fold-up shelving is particularly useful in the garden, where display needs...
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