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Current Obsessions: Heatwave
Onto July—and the Fourth. Kick back with a cold drink and read up on our latest finds. Above: Diving into July. Photograph from Before & After: A Swimming Pool in the Hamptons, Inspired by Spain....
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What to Do in the Garden in July
In the garden July is a month with a split personality: we look back wistfully (at the successes of spring) and forward with trepidation (can this garden be saved, to withstand the August heat that’s...
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True Blue: A Jolt of Color Enlivens a Manhattan Townhouse Garden
When New York-based designer Fawn Galli’s clients asked for a remodel of their Upper East Side townhouse in Manhattan, the request included the overgrown backyard. The family, avid nature lovers,...
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Olive Garden: 10 Favorites in a Soothing Shade of Green
Trend alert: Lately we’ve been noticing garden tools, totes, and togs in soothing shades of dark green (mirroring an interior design trend which the Remodelista editors noted recently). Here we’ve...
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Landscaping: 8 Ideas for Practical Seashell Surfaces
“A great alternative to gravel, crushed clam or oyster can be used on paths, patios, courtyards, driveways, and even bocce ball courts (the shells don’t hold water or imprints from shoes and balls),”...
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Gardening 101: Black-eyed Susans
Black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia: “Prairie Daisy” Black-eyed Susans are native prairie flowers. If you grew up in Illinois, and your kindergarten teacher said to draw a flower, it is likely that you reached...
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10 Easy Pieces: Flagpoles
In 1777, the U.S. Continental Congress made an important design decision: “Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars,...
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Gardening 101: Opium Poppy
Opium Poppy, Papaver somniferum The notoriety of Papaver somniferum, the “sleep-inducing poppy,” is only partly to do with its outlaw family. Opium poppies are grown for their edible seeds and for...
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Swimming Pools: 11 Best Landscape Plants for Water’s Edge
The plants that grow around a swimming pool landscape can add privacy and create a serene, inviting landscape if you choose wisely. But pool environments are notoriously harsh on plants. A heated pool...
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Gardening 101: Pencil Cactus
Pencil Cactus, Euphorbia tirucalli: “Sticks on Fire” I am not usually a person who throws caution to the wind, but despite the numerous warnings about the toxicity of euphorbia’s latex sap, I still...
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Announcing Our New Design Guide to Retaining Walls
Retaining walls are the unsung heroes in many a landscape. On a slope, they prevent erosion, control rainwater runoff, and create terraced levels for patios and garden beds. In an ideal world,...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Design Ideas to Welcome Warm Weather
This week the Remodelista editors celebrated the start of summer by rounding up easy design ideas to update a beach house, weekend retreat, or woodsy getaway. See five of their favorite ideas....
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Current Obsessions: Summer Stillness
This weekend, after the holiday, a moment of respite. Above: Summer, deconstructed. Photograph from Fruit Roll-Ups for Happy Kids. The best new gift for gardeners and houseplant lovers (or yourself): a...
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Landscape Ideas: Garden Design for a Swimming Pool Area
Landscaping a swimming pool area is a different challenge for everyone, just as the design of each house and garden is unique. But when it comes to choosing pool landscape plants there are some...
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Le Jardin Plume: A Modern Impressionist Masterpiece in Normandy
For anyone hankering after European formality—only a touch, we’re not asking for Versailles—Le Jardin Plume in Upper Normandy is just the ticket. Influenced by more recent movements involving...
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Vote Now: Gardenista Considered Design Awards 2018
The submissions are in (more than 2,000 photos of gardens, patios, and design-worthy outdoor living spaces included), our panel of design experts has selected the finalists, and now it’s up to you to...
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10 Easy Pieces: Garden Tuteurs
Tuteur is the French word for tutor, and in the garden tuteurs teach plants valuable lessons. Whether you’re training night-blooming moonflowers or papery-thin clematis, climbing vines and flowers will...
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How to Arrange Flowers Like a Frenchwoman: 8 Chic Techniques
Frenchwomen, it’s universally known, have a knack for effortless beauty, from the way they dress themselves to the way they outfit their interiors. (Case in point: the beautiful-without-trying-too-hard...
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The Sand-Free Summer Cottage: 8 Ways to Keep the Beach at Bay
In summer nothing beats the feel of sand between your toes. Unless, of course, you happen to be inside. Sandy floors (or worse, sheets) are the bane of every beach cottage. But, as this native Cape...
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Gardening 101: Petunias
Petunia, Petunia x atkinsiana Once again it is time to give a salute and thanks for the many stalwart garden plants we have inherited from our southern neighbors. Beauties that we commonly choose for...
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