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Gardening 101: Japanese Sweet Flag Grass
Japanese Sweet Flag Grass, Acorus gramineus: “Water’s Sedge” Japanese sweet flag grass is one of those plants with a proclivity for water which also happen to resemble flowing water. This makes it much...
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Everything You Need to Know About Infinity Pools
From here to infinity is the view you get in a swimming pool with a vanishing edge. Infinity pools make you feel as if you are one with the horizon, floating above the landscape, luxuriating in sky,...
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10 Easy Pieces: Mid-Size Utility Ladders
If you’re not a fan of the colors “construction orange” or “safety yellow” glaring at you each time you open the garage door, outfitting your tool supply isn’t going to be easy. For example, the...
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Magic in Maidenhead: An English Garden That Glows in the Winter
When Sarah Pajwani and her family moved into their house near Maidenhead (an hour from London) in 2011, it was surrounded by an “overgrown field.” Having created a design rationale with the help of...
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Irresistible Baby Houseplants That Will Change Your Life
Baby photos are irresistible. And no less so when the babies are houseplants. Netherlands-based online shop Baby Plants delivers (by stork?) throughout the European Union. Warning: If you are one of...
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The Garden Decoder: What Is a ‘Shade Garden’?
It’s a wonder that I’m so bad at gardening considering it requires just three ingredients—soil, sunlight, and water. And yet, I am. Part of the problem is that it took me a while to realize that my...
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Garden Hacks: 10 Genius Ideas to Keep Plants Warm in Winter
Do plants need blankets in winter? Ideally not. “The true time to assist a plant that can be hurt by cold is before you plant it,” the gardening columnist Henry Mitchell believed. What he meant by that...
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Gardening 101: Pampas Grass
Pampas Grass, Cortaderia selloana The majestic plumes of perennial pampas grass have inspired poets—and provoked the scorn of environmentalists. For good reason, in both cases. First, what’s good about...
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Trending on Remodelista: Everything You Need to Know About Bath Remodels
For our annual Bath Remodel Week, the Remodelista editors compared tile prices, discovered the charms of slimline medicine cabinets, and debated where to splurge (towel warmer) and how to save (nix the...
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Current Obsessions: Muted Palettes
Join us for a book signing and gathering in New York; plus 10 more things on our radar lately: Above: An artful palette of pale greens, greys, and rust reds, and an arc of muted Karl Foerster grasses...
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What to Read in This Week’s Garden Basics Issue
What are new basics gardeners new to know? This week we’ll cover how to design a garden on a budget, where to source a front modern picket gate, and which exterior paint colors Parisian architects pick...
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10 Things Nobody Tell You About Growing Marijuana
Anyone can grow marijuana–its nickname is “weed,” after all–but actually growing it well requires knowledge, patience, and finesse. There’s a lot to learn about growing marijuana. For starters, the...
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Before & After: An Artful Gravel Garden in Sonoma, California
More than 15 years ago, when furniture maker Ed Clay of Furniture Marolles bought a low-slung ranch house on a cul-de-sac within walking of the historic central plaza in downtown Sonoma, California,...
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Gardening 101: Wood Rush
Greater Wood Rush, Luzula sylvatica Wood rush looks like a grass and behaves like a grass, butt Luzula sylvatica actually is a rush, with round stalks. Wood rush has hardy, ribbon-like blades which...
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10 Easy Pieces: Garage Storage Bins
If there’s one thing I learned from watching Tidying Up with Marie Kondo it was that, for most of us (Americans), our garages are our dumping grounds. Almost every garage I’ve walked into has the same...
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Flower Delivery: Lavender Bundles for Valentine’s Day
With Valentine’s Day looming, let’s get past the dozen roses and the heart-shaped chocolates, and go straight to…lavender bundles. Flower delivery for Valentine’s Day may be where your head was at, not...
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What to Do in the Garden in February
What to do in the garden in February–is this some kind of a joke? Here’s a thing I like to do in February: sit by the fire and look at the garden through a window. However. If you (or I) can find the...
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Your First Garden: How to Start a Garden for Practically Free
With a small budget, can you still start a garden? When my husband and I moved into our new home, we had a pretty good idea of how much money we would have to spend to furnish it, to give it a coat of...
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Gardening 101: Pilea
Pilea, Pilea peperomioides: “Pass-along Plant” As common as a Kardashian, photogenic Pilea houseplants dominate the conversation on Instagram. What makes this friendly, pancake-leafed houseplant so...
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10 Easy Pieces: Picket Garden Gates
The friendliest garden gate? It has wooden pickets and is sturdy enough for a child to swing on. Extra points if it’s waist-high (36 inches) so you can gossip with passersby. Picket gates and fences...
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