11 Garden Ideas to Steal from Hipster Homesteaders
Here’s to all the hipsteaders who’ve gone back to the land to farm (and post on their Instagram accounts), as well as to all seasonal settlers and weekend escapees who’ve left city life behind...
View ArticleLandscape Ideas: Blazing Color with Red Twig Dogwood, 5 Ways
In summertime red twig dogwoods can look like space fillers, adding nothing but a bit of structure and not very interesting flowers. It could be that the shrubs are preparing for the next six months:...
View ArticleGardenista’s 10 Most-Read Stories of 2018
You really love a list, don’t you? Reader, your favorite stories this year included many itemized recitations—10 secrets to soothe succulents, 18 garden design trends for ’18, and infinite ideas to...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Snow Sleds
Don’t take it from us; even Orson Welles knew the significance of a classic snow sled. Here are our favorites—from toboggan to sled to DIY kit. Above: The Davos Toboggan from Swiss furniture company...
View ArticlePlant Doctor: How to Save a Dying Houseplant
You saw a plant you loved in a shop or nursery. You brought it home, and for months it warmed your heart. But then it started to decline. What are you doing wrong? Is it dying? Can you save it? For...
View ArticleLandscaping 101: How to Plant a Bare Root Hedge
The best time of year to plant a new hedge is when shrubs are dormant—and the most economical way to do it is with bare root plants. Because bare root shrubs are field grown and can be shipped with no...
View ArticleLandscaping: 10 Clever Gardening Tips to Save Time
Anyone with a well-tended garden knows the endless hours that can be eaten up by chores. And there’s no finish line in sight—cultivated ground comes with a year-long schedule of planting, weeding,...
View ArticleTrending on Remodelista: Best Interior Design Ideas of 2018, Ikea Included
This week on Remodelista, the editors took a look back at their favorite interior design ideas of 2018: The Cuban Mop Above: The “genius of the Cuban mop lies in the simplicity of its design—no bells...
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: Auld Lang Syne
Happy New Year from the Gardenista team. Here are a few things to know about before the year’s through. Above: We’re reminiscing about this dinner party we threw a few years back, with botanical ideas...
View ArticleWhat to Read in This Week’s New Moon Issue
New moon, new year, new ideas for your garden—all coming this week: Above: See more of this garden in Flower Design: A Week at the Cambo Estate in Scotland. Photograph by Christin Geall. Take a look...
View ArticleTwiggy: 7 Favorite Shrubs with Winter Blooms and Berries
With their delicate blossoms and brilliantly colored berries, the twigs of winter deserve applause. Branches look like floral arrangements in the garden (and can also be brought indoors). On a recent...
View ArticleLandscaping Ideas: A DIY Flagstone Terrace for $500
Carmella Rayone is the can-do sort who, faced with the high cost of soapstone, comes up with a convincing DIY look-alike for her family’s kitchen counter: See A Low-Cost Cabin Kitchen for a Family of...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Moon Calendars for 2019
Moon calendars are an age-old tool in the garden. Just as the moon exerts a pull on the Earth’s seas and makes tides rise and fall, its phases also can affect growing conditions. As the moon waxes and...
View ArticleGardening 101: Quaking Grass
Quaking Grass, Briza media Quaking grass usually is not the first plant to come to mind when most gardeners are designing a cutting garden. Instead, they choose the standard, traditional types of...
View Article10 Things Nobody Tells You About Air Plants
I’ve never met an air plant that I didn’t think was adorable. Tillandsias are the tribbles of houseplants—no matter whether a variety is fuzzy, furry, spiky, rounded, or has long, trailing foliage that...
View ArticleA Grow Light for Houseplants That Will Change Your Life
Dark apartment getting you down? (Just a guess.) Weak winter sunlight+ tropical houseplants = disaster. Or does it? You can change the equation—and your life—with a wall-mounted grow light plant shelf....
View ArticleThe Garden Decoder: What Do ‘Low Light’ Conditions Really Mean for Houseplants?
I understand the difference between shade, part-sun, and full-sun plants when it comes to outdoor plants. (Need a refresher? See Houseplants: How to Decode the Info on Plant ID Tags.) But when it comes...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Garden Overalls
File under: essential winter workwear. Women’s overalls—made of heavy-duty fabric, and preferably with a warm insulated lining—are a gardener’s secret weapon in cold weather. Add lots of pockets to a...
View ArticleThe Miracle Season: A Resurrection Plant That Can Come Back to Life
Miracles do exist, at least in the garden. Allow us to introduce you to a desert plant that can revive itself even after its leaves turn brown and it shrivels up into a sad tumbleweed. Give a...
View ArticleTrending on Remodelista: 5 New Interior Design Ideas for 2019
What’s ahead for interior design in 2019? This week the Remodelista editors identified some of their favorite trends: Zero-Waste Kitchen Pantry Above: In Vancouver, Kitchen Staples sells dry, fresh,...
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