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Everything You Need to Know About Roses
Is there any flower more abundant in sensory overload than a rose? Good looks, delicious scent, wonderful for cutting, easy to grow (so long as you give them a good mulch every winter, for they are...
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Gardening 101: Penstemon
Penstemon, Penstemon: “Beardtongue” Whenever I teach schoolchildren about the symbiotic relationship between plants and pollinators, I show penstemons as the perfect example of a flower hummingbirds...
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10 Easy Pieces: Lighted House Numbers
Entryway lighting, meet your new best friend: house numbers. Whether they’re powered by LED or incandescent bulbs, lighted address plaques will beckon visitors into a warm glow at night. Here are 10...
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Gardening 101: Flax Lily
Flax Lily, Dianella tasmanica When your sister politely asks you what to plant in front of her partly shaded fence where deer mingle too frequently in an area where cars drive too close–and she says...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Australia
Autumn in April is business as usual in Australia. Why have it any other way? As these gardens show, there is a liberation from being closer to the east than the north. Here are 10 modern ideas to...
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Your First Garden: 5 Rookie Mistakes to Avoid This Spring
For me, gardening (before I actually had a garden) was all about the outfit. I gave much thought to the accessories I’d wear—a wide-brimmed sun hat, a bandana around my neck, a pair of galoshes,...
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Everything You Need to Know About Flowering Trees
Thank you flowering trees, for alerting us to the fact that it is definitely spring. We might have missed that development if not for the sudden, glorious explosion of pink and white and purply-tinged...
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10 Ideas to Steal from Midcentury Modern Gardens
Midcentury modern garden design evolved alongside the breathless optimism of America’s suburbs. In the decades following World War II, greater prosperity and more leisure time seemed as inevitable as...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 DIY Interior Design Ideas to Steal
This week the Remodelista editors got out their glue guns and tested their DIY skills. Here are five of their favorite stylish and thrifty interior design projects to try at home: Salvaged Slab...
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Current Obsessions: First Signs of Spring
Here’s what we’ve been pinning, noting, and talking about on Gardenista this week: Above: Photograph by Chikae Howland from How to Arrange Flowers Like a Frenchwoman: 8 Chic Techniques. On our reading...
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Swimming Pool of the Week: A Pool House with Vineyard Views in Sonoma
Originally conceived of as just a 500-square-foot box, a modest Northern California pool house in Sonoma got bigger after architect and owner Neal Schwartz started thinking about how to block views of...
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African Violets: Rethinking ‘America’s Favorite House Plant’ for Modern Times
The African violets discovered in Africa in 1892 by a colonial plantation owner named Baron Walter von Saint Paul-Illaire had clusters of velvety blue flowers. So did all the plants grown from the...
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Gardening 101: Dyckia
Dyckia, Dyckia Looking and playing the part of succulents, Dyckias are actually a genus of the bromeliad family. Their love of sun, drought tolerance, and unique appearance often make people think they...
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10 Easy Pieces: Classic Outdoor Chair Designs
Design classics aren’t just for interiors. In fact, a crop of notable 20th-century designers made dining and lounge chairs for the outdoors (and/or their designs were later reworked for outdoor use)....
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The Garden Decoder: What Are Hybrid, Heirloom, and Open-Pollinated Seeds?
A seed is a seed is a seed, right? Not quite. If you’re in the market for, say, tomato seeds, you’ll likely encounter a dizzying variety of options at the nursery. You’ll also notice a few key terms...
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Landscaping: 8 Ideas to Add Antiques Artfully to Any Garden
You don’t need to inherit an ancestral estate to make antiques look at home in a garden. Beautiful vintage stone urns, columns, and planters—or even new ones masquerading as old—can be used in almost...
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DIY Dye: A Sunshine-Yellow Turmeric Tablecloth
Native to Southern India and identifiable by its show-stopping yellow, turmeric has been a staple in cooking and medicine for thousands of years. The spice, a member of the ginger family and a key...
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Required Reading: Three Generations of Women Gardeners in the Cotswolds
Some gardens are nurtured over a lifetime but Kiftsgate Court Gardens, on the northern edge of the Cotswolds Hills, has been carefully created over three lifetimes, and by three generations of...
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Garden Designer Visit: A Manhattan Terrace with Panoramic Central Park Views
The Scenario: The clients have a pied-à-terre on Manhattan’s Upper East Side (near the Frick Museum) with astonishing, postcard-perfect views of Central Park. The Challenge: To design a terrace—on a...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Interior Design Ideas to Steal from the UK
Brass Backsplashes Above: Pre-aged with a hand-applied splatter pattern, a brass backsplash (also shown in the top photograph) “is lacquered with a ‘non-porous coating to protect from continued...
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