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The Most Glamorous Cows in England
As I drove away from Daylesford Organic Farm last week, having visited the food shop, kitchen and garden shop, restaurant, cooking school, spa and clothing boutique—each with its own enticing smell—I...
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Driveway Fruit Tarts: A Love Story
The first time I met Julie, I brought a Driveway Fruit Tart to her house for dinner. "I still remember," Julie said the other day. "You remember when we met?" I asked, flattered. "No, I remember the...
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Picking Fruit the Easy Way
Forget unstable ladders, questionable tactics like your child's lacrosse stick (I've seen my neighbor try this method, only to send lemons off into other yards), or waiting for fruit to drop with a...
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Farmers' Markets Across America: New York, New York
For our last farmers' market profile of the week, we headed to the Big Apple. Union Square Greenmarket in New York City is one of the nation's largest farmers' markets. Started with just a handful of...
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Vote for the Best Architectural Garden Feature in the Gardenista Considered...
Follow the link below to vote for the Gardenista finalists in the Best Architectural Garden Feature category, designed by professionals. You can vote once a day in each category now through July 15. On...
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In the News: Top 5 Remodelista Posts of the Week
With house guests on the horizon (more on that topic coming in Monday's "Domestic Dispatches"), I was especially grateful to Remodelista this week for offering inventive suggestions about how to...
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Last Chance to Vote for Your Favorites in the Gardenista Considered Design...
We're thrilled to report that we received more than 500 entries to the inaugural Remodelista and Gardenista Considered Design Awards. After lengthy deliberation, our editors have chosen the finalists....
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Handsome Bike Baskets for Taking Meals On the Go
Last week my husband and I took a picnic dinner to the first film in the summer movie series at our local park. As per my instructions for hosting a perfect barbecue, we stuffed our picnic basket with...
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DIY: Make a Flower Crown, from Tigers to Lilies
Spotted on Tigers and Lilies, flower crowns fashioned by Lili Cuzor and fit for a queen (like you or me): Photographs by Lili Cuzor. Above: You can make a crown from wisps or woven stems or bouquets of...
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Rustic Living on the Beach, in Uruguay
A beach home in Uruguay flaunts lofted ceilings, a wraparound deck, and a kitchen far more chic than yours or mine. This, and more, in one very tiny room. The design employs several space-maximizing...
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Foraging for Dessert: An Afternoon with Tama Matsuoka Wong
Tama Matsuoka Wong is a self-described weed eater. She is also an expert forager, conservationist and author of the cookbook and field guide Foraged Flavor (Clarkson Potter June 2012) which she...
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10 Easy Pieces: Folding Deck Chairs
Nothing could be simpler—or more comfortable—than a folding wooden deck chair. They know this in the South of France. They know this on the beach at Brighton. And we know this at my house, where we...
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No More Mothballs: Keep Moths Away With an Herbal Sachet
Summertime shouldn't be synonymous with the pungent smell of mothballs, but for people lucky enough to have a summer house to steal away to, too often it is. Mothballs tend to lurk in cottages and...
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Gertrude Jekyll Flower Glasses
Legendary British gardener Gertrude Jekyll designed and commissioned the Munstead line of flower glasses after she failed to find vases that met her exacting standards (she used the vases to display...
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7 Things You Should Do to Protect Fireflies
Compared to photographing them, catching fireflies is about the easiest thing to do. And in the summertime, spending at least one evening running around a field, mason jar in hand, should a be a...
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Steal This Look: A Black and White Deck, Herb Garden Included
We spotted this clever and stylish instant herb garden wall via Bambula. Doesn't green look fabulous against a black and white backdrop? All it takes to recreate the look is some white paint, a few...
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Latches and Hardware: Cannonball Gate Closer
I'm a sucker for the solid heft of anything round and heavy—crystal ball, bocce, Magic 8 Ball, I'm there—so when I spotted this old-fashioned garden gate accessory, I fell for it immediately. Known as...
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Announcing the Winners of the Gardenista Considered Design Awards
We're thrilled with the results of our first annual Considered Design Awards: You entered more than 500 projects and voted for your favorites more than 40,000 times. We want to extend the heartiest of...
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Free-Range Chicken Gardens: How to Create a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard
If you've spent much time on a farm with chickens then you know that the spaces where chickens live aren't always the most beautiful corners of the place. Chickens can make a space dusty and smelly,...
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Helmingham Hall in Suffolk: Shouldn't Every Garden Have a Moat?
The highly sought after British garden designer Xa Tollemache discovered an affinity for landscape design while overseeing her own gardens at Helmingham Hall in Suffolk (she is married to the 5th Baron...
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