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Gardening 101: Arborvitae
Arborvitae, Thuja: “Tree of Life” Arborvitae trees are North American natives that earned their appreciative nickname (arbor vitae translates to “tree of life” in Latin) a few centuries back when...
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Trending on Remodelista: 10 Scandi-Style Summer Design Ideas to Steal
A visit to their favorite Scandinavian design haunts always surprises and delights the Remodelista editors. New ideas to steal for your own remodel: Swedish Cabinet Knobs Above: Dot cabinet pulls in a...
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Today is the Deadline to Enter Our 2018 Design Awards Contest
This is it; today is the last day to enter the 2018 Gardenista and Remodelista Considered Design Awards. You have until the clock strikes midnight Pacific time tonight—Friday, June 22—to submit your...
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Current Obsessions: Midsommer
This last full weekend of June, we’re savoring the month’s most beautiful blooms and the summer stretched out ahead of us. More on our radar: Above: The gatherings for a romantic early summer garland,...
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Landscaping: 10 Rose Garden Design Ideas
There are more ways to use roses in a garden than there are roses—and as you know, there are many thousands of kinds of climbing, rambling, heirloom, floribunda, hybrid tea, and miniature roses. Are...
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Before & After: A Vintage Florida Cottage and Garden Saved from the...
A few weeks ago a rare thing landed in our in-box: before-and-after photographs of a Florida cottage built in 1935. Before: decrepit, with a sagging roof and a front porch straight out of an episode of...
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Solar Power: French Lanterns Built with Race Cart Technology
What could make more sense than solar-powered outdoor lighting? But sensible too often comes in basic-at-best packaging. Fortunately, a team of designers at French teak furnishings company Les Jardins...
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Gardening 101: Honesty
Honesty, Lunaria: “Silver Dollar” Honesty is honestly loved—for its long performing time, early color, and the handsome shape of the plant. Not to mention its jagged heart-shaped leaves, cruciform...
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11 Garden Ideas to Steal from the Coast of Maine
The rocky coast of Maine is known for being a little weather-worn, with Down East charm: old gray Adirondack chairs, hardy plantings that can stand the salt air, and outdoor showers for washing off the...
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10 Easy Pieces: Downlights
Downlights in a landscape will focus attention exactly where you need it at night, with minimal light pollution from glare and excessive brightness. By pointing toward your feet, downlights make it...
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Gardening 101: Cleome
Cleome, Cleome hassleriana: “Spider Flower” Long ago, back in the time of flower power and hippie counterculture, I grew my hair long and lived for a while in a shabby fifth-floor walk-up that had few...
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Designer Visit: A ‘Magical Green Pocket Garden’ in San Francisco
Some people would look at a neglected San Francisco side yard filled with an overgrown ramble of scraggly rose bushes and forsaken calla lilies, and feel intimidated. All that hard-packed clay—will we...
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10 Easy Pieces: Folding Camp Chairs
Folding camp furniture was considered such a breakthrough invention that in 1893 the Gold Medal Camp Furniture Company dispatched salesmen from its headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin to travel to...
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Gardening 101: Coneflower
Coneflower, Echinacea: “Prairie Home Companion” When I think of coneflowers I imagine a country hill scattered with flowers, and then I see Laura Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie running...
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Landscaping: 9 Ideas for Curb Appeal in a City Garden
In a city, a front garden may be nothing more than a narrow strip of land to separate a house from the curb. How do you make the most of such a small space? The rationale that UK-based designer Sheila...
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Landscaping 101: How to Kill Poison Ivy
Poison ivy was making enemies as early as the 17th century. Upon discovering it in the New World, Captain John Smith noted in 1623, “The poysoned weed is much in shape like our English Ivy, but being...
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Object of Desire: A French Farmhouse Vase, from Vermont
In Woodstock, Vermont potters Zoe and James Zilian of Farmhouse Pottery rely on “simple tools and strong beliefs in process and authenticity” to create beautifully useful objects. Their two-handled...
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In the Meadow: Wildflowers from Great Dixter and Scribble & Daub
When greeting card artist Caroline Kent moved to her Sussex cottage in 2010, a local gardener suggested she develop a wildflower meadow on an area of brambly scrubland. For inspiration, she didn’t have...
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Trending on Remodelista: Summer Palette
Update your summer house—or make your regular house feel more like a summer retreat—with a few well-placed upgrades. This week the Remodelista editors discovered design ideas to create a summer...
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Everything You Need to Know About Ornamental Alliums
In their first flush, allium flowers add to the joyous rite of spring. Although they are overtaken in color and height by midsummer blooms, their striking spherical silhouettes continue to hold their...
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