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10 Easy Pieces: Countertop Vegetable-Growing Kits
This past month I cooked every single meal that I ate: no eating out, no delivery, and no packaged food. Something I noticed on my 90-percent-veg grocery bill each week was how much I was spending on...
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Garden Visit: A Carpet of Color in the Cotswolds
Just finding your way to Trench Hill in Gloucestershire is a lesson in diligence, but your navigational skills are rewarded as soon as you enter the gate and are greeted by swaths of early spring...
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Gardening 101: Butterfly Bush
Butterfly Bush, Buddleia “Even a quite small garden should have a buddleia,” wrote the late gardening columnist Henry Mitchell, because no plant is better at attracting butterflies. His favorite...
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Your First Outdoor Furniture: 5 Mistakes to Avoid
Buying your first outdoor furniture is almost as exciting as buying your first house with a garden. Before you rush out to shop, take the time to figure out the best all-weather pieces for your patio,...
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Boston Beauty: A Glorious Garden for a Grand Old House on a Hill
Around Boston it’s not uncommon to find many a grand, old home perched on a hill. When these houses were built, such lofty prospects afforded spectacular views. But today the steep sites can present a...
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Designer Visit: A ‘Magical Green Pocket Garden’ in San Francisco
Some people would look at a neglected San Francisco side yard filled with an overgrown ramble of scraggly rose bushes and forsaken calla lilies, and feel intimidated. All that hard-packed clay—will we...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Design Ideas to Bring Spring Indoors
Longer days, longer shafts of sunlight: spring is upon and the Remodelista editors spent the week compiling a list of clever interior design ideas to bring the outdoors in. Here are five design ideas...
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Current Obsessions: Into Spring
Bookmarked this week: maple tree tappings, celebrations of honeysuckles, and more signs of spring. Above: A carpet of hellebores, as seen in this week’s Garden Visit: A Carpet of Color in the...
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10 Ideas for Designing a Japanese-Inspired Garden, with Marc Keane
Maybe you love the look of a Japanese garden, but you’re thinking, “I already have a garden. How can I make what I have look more Japanese without starting from scratch?” Fear not. We have some great...
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Gardening 101: Catmint
Catmint, Nepeta As the name suggests, catmint is a member of the mint family, but please don’t immediately dismiss this beautiful perennial if you’ve had trouble with invasive mint before. Flowering...
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Steal This Look: A Stylishly Deconstructed Outdoor Kitchen
San Francisco tastemaker Sam Hamilton’s shop, March, is known for its beautiful collection of kitchen wares and textiles. When we were scouting stylish locations to shoot for our Gardenista book, top...
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10 Easy Pieces: Wooden Plant Pedestals
If you’ve reached the point of your houseplant collection where pots just sort of mush together in an expanding blob on the floor, might we suggest introducing levels? A few strategically placed...
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Landscaping: What’s the Best Soil Conditioner for Your Garden?
Is this the year you get serious about improving your soil? There are good reasons to put in the work. Adding a soil conditioner can make garden soil lighter, fluffier, more fertile, and generally...
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Required Reading: Plantopia by Camille Soulayrol
You only need to scroll through Instagram or Pinterest—or visit any number of suddenly stylish plant shops from Los Angeles to London to Paris—to see that the houseplant scene shows no signs of slowing...
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The Garden Decoder: What Are ‘Native Plants’?
Last month, I wrote about “organic gardening” and what that really entails. A term that kept popping up while reporting that column: “native plants.” What are they, how are they important, and why are...
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Gardening 101: Agapanthus
African Lily, Agapanthus Flowering in summer with showy globes of blue, purple, pink, or white, perennial Agapanthus is native to warm climates in Africa (which explains one common nickname: African...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Interior Design Ideas to Steal from Japan
This week the Remodelista editors looked east to Japan for interior design inspiration. Here are five of their favorite ideas to steal: Floral Tablecloths Above: A fringed Makoto Kagoshima Tablecloth...
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Life After Life: The Unexpected Resurrection of Mrs. Boer’s Garden
After 54-year-old plantswoman Dirkje Boer died of cancer in 2002, her garden sank into grief along with her husband and three sons. The two and a half acres of flowers she had cultivated against the...
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Current Obsessions: Out Like a Lamb
Garden rants, how to store strawberries, and eight other things to know about this weekend: Above: The DIY project the Gardenista editors are eager to try? A simple dried-flower wall hanging for all...
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Moving On: A New Home for Helen Dillon, Ireland’s ‘Undisputed Queen of...
A garden is no place for sentimentality, Helen Dillon once said: “Good gardening is a constant process of editing. Really what it boils down to is not what you put in, it’s what you take out.” Maybe it...
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