Evening Light: A Painter’s Serene Summer Garden in Upstate New York
A few weeks back, photographer Alison Engstrom and I took an early morning Amtrak north, from New York to Hudson, to visit artist Helen Dealtry and Dan Barry in their clapboard house, tucked behind a...
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View ArticleEnchanted Garden: At Home with Florist Brigitte Girling in the English...
When florist Brigitte Girling of Moss & Stone discovered her house deep in the English countryside 18 years ago, much of the surrounding land had been sold off and the remaining one-acre garden was...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Modern White Outdoor Chaise Loungers
Nothing says “holiday” quite like an outdoor chaise, particularly when it’s poolside and accompanied by an aperitif. Here are our 10 favorite modern white outdoor chaise loungers and sun beds for an...
View ArticleA Romantic River Garden in The Netherlands, Handmade Edition
German artist and designer Valentin Loellmann converted a listed stable house into a characterful, hand-built home for his family. At first, the house, located on the River Maas in the Dutch town of...
View ArticleEverything You Need to Know About ZZ Plants
As I was headed into my local nursery the other day, an interior-plant deliveryman was unloading a van out front. Because I am perennially curious and a devout plant lover, I poked my head inside and...
View ArticleGarden Visit: An Enchanted Summer House in the German Countryside
Old rose vines climb the facade. Bucolic pastureland surrounds a secluded half-acre of land. And “the only visible neighbor is the church across the street with its beautiful old church tower which can...
View ArticleVote for the Best Edible Garden Project in Our Design Awards
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View ArticleRequired Reading: The Outside Institute Field Guide to the Hudson and Upper...
For aspiring East Coast adventurers who want to explore nature in the Hudson and Upper Delaware valleys, The Outside Institute’s new guide to local flora, fauna, and fungi identifies 52 kinds of...
View ArticleTrending on Remodelista: 5 Design Ideas for High Summer
We’ll be sad to see July go. But, courage—August lies ahead, with lazy days and sunflowers in the garden. The Remodelista editors spent the week discovering new design ideas for high summer. Here are...
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: Artifacts of Summer
What the Gardenista team is noting, this last weekend of July. Above: A height-of-summer project worth revisiting: See DIY: Pressed Seaweed Prints for instructions. Only a few days left to vote for...
View ArticleVote for the Best Professional Landscape in Our Design Awards
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View ArticleGenius Garden Ideas: 10 Landscapes with Olive Trees
If you live in a climate warm enough to make an olive tree happy, consider your landscape dilemma solved. One olive tree, dramatically situated, is all it takes to inspire awe—and poetic allusions to...
View ArticleGardening 101: Lupine
Lupine, Lupinus: “Fine Old Garden Flower” Miss Rumphius was the lupine lady, as you probably remember from the picture book by Barbara Cooney. She lived in Maine, in a little house by the sea, and...
View ArticleGarden Visit: A Revolutionary Landscape in Concord, MA
Heading out of town in Concord, Massachusetts, one passes The Old Manse, an imposing clapboard building which in the 18th century witnessed the start of the Revolutionary War at the battle of North...
View Article11 Garden Ideas to Steal from Russia
A summerhouse on a plot of land, to visit every weekend while wearing country garb—this is not the vision of New Yorkers escaping to Connecticut but of Russians, during the time of Tolstoy and Chekhov....
View ArticleVote for the Best Amateur Garden in Our Design Awards
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View Article10 Easy Pieces: Potato Growing Kits
Never mind what you’ve heard; you don’t need to hill or hoe potatoes. With a potato growing kit—which consists mainly of a waterproof bag and potting soil—you can grow the underground root vegetable...
View Article10 Best Landscape Design Software Programs of 2018
Back in the analog era, if you wanted to DIY a plan for a garden or landscape, you pulled out a pencil, a ruler, a plant book, that folder of inspirational magazine clippings of yards you love, a sheet...
View ArticleTomorrow Is the Last Day to Vote in the 2018 Considered Design Awards
Tomorrow is the last day to make your voice heard in our 2018 Gardenista Considered Design Awards. Vote now for your favorite finalists across six categories and don’t forget to vote on Remodelista,...
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