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Hardscaping 101: Pennsylvania Bluestone
While I was in the midst of a major home construction project and feeling pretty good about some of my recent design decisions, the stonemason arrived and asked how I’d like the bluestone deck to look....
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10 Easy Pieces: Wooden Garden Benches
As much as I like working in my garden, what I really love is watching others work–squirrels furtively ferrying nuts to hideouts, bees on a tight schedule in the lemon tree, ants with plans. A...
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Gardening 101: Dianthus
Pinks, Dianthus: “Savior of Sissinghurst” Consider the “vast tribe of pinks, or Dianthus,” as the legendary English plantswoman Vita Sackville-West did when planting out the next season’s flower beds...
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Plant Based Diet: Summer Goddess Sun Tea
Making sun tea is kind of like cheating. In the best way. It sounds fancy and tastes delicious, but requires less effort than you’d think. Our summer goddess sun tea recipe is from natural beauty...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Small-Space Design Ideas to Steal
Small spaces can feel spacious with a few clever design ideas. This week the Remodelista investigated visual tricks to “move” walls, discovered simple furniture silhouettes, and found corner sinks to...
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Gardening 101: Corydalis
Corydalis, Corydalis: “Bird in a Bush” Shaped like the head of a crested lark (according to the ancient Greeks), corydalis flowers have a flitting, temporary look. They come and go all summer but the...
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Current Obsessions: City Summer
Staying in the city this weekend? Here are a few ways to escape and stay cool—plus more, on our radar. Above: How to grow strawberries in even the tiniest patch… plus, a recipe for a strawberry shrub...
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Everything You Need to Know About Lilies
“Lilies as a group are very difficult,” wrote the late, great gardening writer Henry Mitchell. “What is especially difficult and infuriating about lilies is that they will grow like virtual weeds and...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Denmark
Mild winters, cool summers, and flat stretches of landscape bordered by sandy shoreline characterize the growing conditions that gardeners in Denmark contend with. Wildly varied seasonal fluctuations...
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Outdoor Furniture: Stylish Seating Made from Recycled Sailcloth in Spain
The idea of turning retired boat sails into sun shades, shower curtains, and other useful things initially blew me away. That was about five years ago. Many giant sail tote sightings later, the concept...
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Countdown: 5 Days Left to Enter Our 2018 Considered Design Awards
The countdown is on: You have only five more days to submit your garden and home design projects into the 2018 Gardenista Considered Design Awards. Enter by midnight Pacific on Friday, June 22, in any...
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Designer Visit: Sheila Jack’s White Garden in West London
A career in art direction is a useful grounding for anybody wishing to go into garden design. Sheila Jack‘s career shift was not so much a break as a continuum of research, editing, and presentation....
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10 Easy Pieces: Weeding Forks
It’s weed season. Why make it a fair fight? To defeat the enemy, I prefer a multi-pronged fork that you can push into crevices to tease out roots. A weeding fork can be the best tool to use between...
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Plant Based Diet: 16 Edible Flowers to Grow
The beauty of flowers sometimes makes us believe that appearance is all they have to offer. But like other edible plants, flowers can bring to our plates (and glasses) elements of texture, aroma, and...
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Australian Open: A Romantic Landscape in the Southern Highlands
In the Southern Highlands an hour’s drive south of Sydney, a region known for its vineyards and mild climate, landscape designer Nicholas Bray encountered sweeping views and a low-slung house with...
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10 Easy Pieces: Lightweight Planters
A new planter—even a very big planter—shouldn’t feel like a lifetime commitment. We went searching for lightweight and luggable pots suitable for patios, terraces, and stoops. Here are 10 of our...
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Cow Parsley: An English Weed with Royal Connections
In England, hedgerows froth with a creamy white haze of cow parsley as Anthriscus sylvestris (a cousin of Queen Anne’s lace) rises up from ditches, billowing along roadside verges and lighting up the...
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Swimming Pool of the Week: A Generous Pool for a Modest California Weekend...
When San Francisco landscape architect Loretta Gargan and her partner, the art photographer Catherine Wagner, set out to buy a weekend house in the warmer climes of Marin County just north of the city,...
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Object of Desire: A Handblown Flycatcher from Sweden
Yes, you could make a flytrap from an empty tomato sauce jar or a dish with plastic wrap, but neither of these methods elevates the task of combatting flies in your house. This glass flycatcher,...
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Gardening 101: Sweet Chestnut Tree
Sweet Chestnut, Castanea sativa: “Beauty in Utility” Handsome, long-lived, with texture galore, sweet chestnuts in their several varieties are distinguished trees. They are also abundantly generous, in...
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