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10 Things Your Landscape Designer Wishes You Knew About Gravel (But Is Too...
My clients are often in love with gravel, or at least with the idea of gravel. But as a landscape designer, I have a love-hate relationship with the paving material. The other day I visited a clients’...
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Current Obsessions: New Year, New You
Here’s what we’re taking note of, this first weekend of 2019: Above: Photograph by Emily Johnston from The Accidental Jungle: Shabd Simon-Alexander’s Houseplants in a New York Apartment. How could...
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What to Read in Next Week’s Thrift Store Issue
Big impact, small budget—this week we’ll round up our favorite ways to almost no money to make an amazing garden: Above: See more at Design Basics: 5 Steps to Create an Outdoor Room on a Budget....
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10 Ways to Save Money on a New Patio
An outdoor patio can change your outlook on life. Picture yourself sprawled in a comfortable chair, a glass of lemonade on a side table, a book. The sun is warm. Close your eyes: that tweeting sound...
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Olive Garden: A Houseplant That Can Live for Centuries
The life expectancy of most of your houseplants is shorter than you probably want to contemplate. But an olive tree? The oldest one on record, growing on the Greek island of Crete, is thought to be at...
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Gardening 101: Moor Grass
Moor Grass, Sesleria: “Piet Oudolf’s Favorite” As a garden designer, I was not always enamored with ornamental grasses. I thought every grass would need a harsh crew cut at the end of the season and...
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10 Easy Pieces: Budget Garage Shelving
Your garage should be as clean and organized as anywhere in the house, but let’s face it: no one wants to shell out serious cash for garage furniture. Enter the good-looking, budget-friendly shelves on...
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10 Things Nobody Tells You About Fiddle-Leaf Fig Trees
Fiddle-leaf fig trees are the “it” houseplant that refuses to go away. More than five years after our first post about the trend, #fiddleleaffig is still dominating social media (with 125,272 snapshots...
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Everything You Need to Know About Fire Bowls
Please don’t call them fire pits. Even if smokeless fire bowls are essentially gas-powered fire pits, inventor Elena Colombo said, “I don’t think anything sounds better if you use the word ‘pit’ to...
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Your First Garden: The Easiest Vegetables to Grow
If you want vegetable seedlings that are easy to grow, never go to the nursery just to browse. You may end up falling into the trap of buying whatever strikes your fancy—which is likely fine when...
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Rehab Stories: 10 Garages Gone Glam
Look at your garage. Shelves of hockey sticks, rusty rakes, mystery cardboard boxes that haven’t been opened since your last move. Now close your eyes and imagine—a guest bedroom, a studio, a...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Budget-Friendly Ways to Make Your Home Feel Fresh
Work with what you have was the Remodelista editors’ mantra this week. For a new year, here are five of their favorite ways to make a space feel fresh: Paint Your Kitchen Cabinets Above: Photograph...
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Gardening 101: Chrysanthemums
Chrysanthemum: Chrysanthemum indicum Chrysanthemums don’t get the respect they deserve. For one thing, the only time anybody thinks of these cheery daisies is in the autumn, when you see them sold...
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Current Obsessions: Garden Restart
Even in the cold of January, there are tasks to be done in the garden, DIY salves to be made, and organizing (in the shed, the garage, the entryway) for the new year and spring ahead. Here are 8 things...
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What to Read in This Week’s New Directions Issue
What’s your weather like this week? If it’s keeping you indoors, stay posted for our tips on how to perk up your potted orchids and other houseplants. If the days are mild, join us in the garden where...
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10 Things Nobody Tells You About Orchids
“Orchids seem to drive people crazy,” the author Susan Orlean wrote in The Orchid Thief. “Those who love them love them madly.” This has been true for centuries, and in the 18oos Europeans’ obsession...
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Edible Gardens for Beginners: With Gardenuity, There’s No Guesswork
First-time gardeners need a little extra help. With an edible container-garden kit from Dallas-based Gardenuity, they will get it. “You’ll automatically get weather alerts for your zip code from us,”...
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Low-Water Landscapes: 8 Ideas for Dry Gardens, from Designer Daniel Nolan
Please forget everything you think you know about dry gardens (especially if you are imagining harsh, spiky, half-dead-looking landscapes). A low-water garden can have lush foliage, soft textures, and...
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10 Easy Pieces: High Tech Herb Growing Kits
This year I’ve resolved to grow my own culinary herbs. After years of buying those tiny (plastic) packages of (expensive) bundled herbs at the grocery store, it’s time. Enter: technology. There are now...
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100 Gardens to Visit Before You Die
Our list of the top 100 gardens to visit worldwide is very personal; many of these destinations are favorites our editors and contributors discovered in their travels. Others—from Athens to...
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