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Your First Garden: What You Need to Know About Topsoil
Welcome to Your First Garden. If you have questions about the basics (as in: what is topsoil?), you’re like me. For newbies like us, I’ll answer them one at a time—with advice from experts—twice a...
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Gardening 101: Pittosporum
In my garden I rely on pittosporum shrubs to behave like a sheer curtain, creating a shimmery 10-foot-tall privacy layer to block street sights and sounds. But that’s just me. With more than 200...
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Trending on Remodelista: 10 Design Ideas to Steal for Workspaces
Back to school, back to work, but not necessarily back to basics. Elevate your office routine with five design ideas the Remodelista editors discovered this week in their favorite workspaces: Workspace...
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Office Hours: 10 Indoor Plants to Dress Up a Desktop
Does your office feel a little too Dilbert? Here’s a quick fix: banish institutional cubicle culture with a little greenery (a plant or two will improve air quality too). Studies show you’re more...
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Current Obsessions: Old-School
From dried-flower arrangements to finding hiking trails wherever you are: Here’s what came across our screens this week. Above: Are dried flowers trending? Grace & Thorn in Hackney, London, is...
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Gardening 101: Gomphrena
Globe Amaranth, Gomphrena: Bachelor Button Gomphrena is a cheery little clover look-alike that for centuries has graced classic cutting gardens. American gardeners have relied on its pleasing bachelor...
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Before & After: Restoring a Forgotten Garden from the Gilded Age in Newport, RI
Arthur Curtiss James was a railroad titan, as the newspaper obituaries would later put it, and in 1911 he and his wife, Harriet, built a grand estate with sprawling gardens designed by the Olmsted...
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Object of Desire: Cultivation Tray for Seedlings
If you are old enough to remember the early Martha Stewart days, you also may recall that she was the first person to elevate drudgery to diversion. Back in the ’90s she transformed the most menial...
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10 Easy Pieces: Boot Racks for Wellies
Get ready for muddy season in the garden. I grew up in Boston, where a number of British ways have managed to linger: we call our mothers Mum (and our bottoms bums), eat our share of fish and chips,...
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Gardening 101: Verbena
Verbena, Verbena: “Butterfly Magnet” One of my earliest gardening blunders was a six-pack of tiny verbena seedlings I bought because the tag promised they could grow in partial shade. The poor little...
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Hardscaping 101: Front Stoops
Most of us want the entrance to our homes to let visitors know we’re glad to see them. But how do we achieve that? One way is by paying close attention to the design of the front stoop. The word stoop...
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Gardening 101: Gardenia
Gardenia, Gardenia jasminoides: “Heaven Scent” You know how certain smells can take you back to a specific (and I hope good) time and place? Gardenias do that for me. My grandmother lived in Pasadena,...
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The Garden Decoder: What Is a “Cool-Season Crop”?
Welcome to the Garden Decoder, a new column in which I define gardening terms, both rarely heard and commonly bandied about, that have me scratching my head. To call me a novice gardener is a...
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High/Low: Folding Canvas Camp Stools
Calling all late-season loungers: A deck or patio will beckon in cool weather if it has versatile furnishings—such as a pair of folding canvas camp stools which can do double duty as seating or side...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Design Ideas to Steal from the California Coast
The California coast beckoned, and the Remodelista editors found themselves basking in sun and surf this week. Here are five favorite design ideas they found to steal: Perfect Potted Plants Above:...
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The Best of the Tomatoes: A Joyous Harvest Dinner by David Stark Design
We all should paint our dining rooms to match our gardens, especially during tomato season. That’s the first lesson I learned from this week’s beautiful harvest dinner envisioned by the team at David...
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Current Obsessions: The Golden State
From a legendary UK gardener’s visit across the pond to glamping in Sonoma, here are 9 things on our radar this weekend. Above: Fall on the vineyard; photograph by Daniel Dent from The Winemaker’s...
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Object of Desire: Moon Calendar for Gardeners
Moon gardening is an age-old technique based on a simple idea: The gravitational pull of the earth affects water levels in the earth as well as in the oceans. Just as tides rise and fall as the moon...
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The Neo-Homesteader’s Essential Garden Journal
Making use of scrap wood and scavenged reclaimed materials (including, when appropriate, leather from World War II gun holsters), Philadelphia-based designers Margaux and Walter Kent are...
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Curb Appeal: A Paint Makeover for a Stucco House, California Edition
Gardenista editor in chief Michelle Slatalla’s house has been begging for a paint job ever since the holiday season a few years back, when she used dabs of silicone to attach twinkly lights to the...
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