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Wild Beauty: Fowlers Flowers in Melbourne, Australia
Shop owners Lauren Bieber and Tom Crowe find it easy to keep an eye on what's happening at Fowlers Flowers in Melbourne, Australia, because they also own the coffee shop next door. In fact, it was...
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Best Indoor Garden Winner: Liz Tan
The Best Indoor Garden winner in our Considered Design Awards is Liz Tan, a digital designer with a keen eye for styling and a knack for indoor gardening. Tan's adventures in gardening began when her...
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Calling All Instagrammers: We Want to See Your Handpicked Flowers
One of our favorite things about Instagram is getting to peek at what other people are growing—and picking, often by the fistful. Lately, we've been particularly inspired by the ubiquitous shots of...
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Steal This Look: A Rustic Porch and Summerhouse in Australia
Yesterday, on Remodelista we posted on the interiors of Ellis House, a historic guesthouse in Kyneton, Australia. Today, we're dissecting the outdoor style of the house's wraparound porch and original...
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10 Easy Pieces: Dog Food Bowls
We have a few basic requirements for tableware (make that floorware) for our dogs: Food bowls should be easy to clean, nice to look at, and they should stay put during dinnertime (or at least put up a...
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Demystifying Sunscreen: 5 Things You Need to Know
When it comes to sunscreen, I admit to being a little bit cranky. First there's the way it makes me feel: sticky and grimy—and that's before I've spent the day in the garden. Then there are all of the...
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Best Urban Garden Winner: Alexandra Tasker Marx Landscape Architect
The Best Urban Garden winner in our Considered Design Awards is Alexander Tasker Marx, a landscape architect with her own firm who spent a decade renovating her garden to suit her family's outdoor...
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Stop the Itch: Natural Mosquito Bite Remedies
I'm a romantic at heart, and so at the risk of facing commenter-wrath, I'm going to go out on a limb and say it: the season's first mosquito bite isn't such a bad thing. In a strange way, it's kind of...
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Off Hours: How Chelsea Flower Show Star Cleve West Survives His Day Job
What does a top garden designer do to relax? He gardens, of course—but not exactly where you'd expect. Cleve West, winner of two consecutive Best in Shows at Chelsea last year and the year before,...
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Instant Taps for Your Raised Garden Beds
Here's a solution to the ongoing problem of having to drag hoses and sprinklers around your garden beds: Aquacorner, an instant tap for your raised garden bed. Pair it with a soaker hose that stays put...
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Uli Lorimer, Native Plant Whisperer
What's well behaved, and what's a takeover artist? If you're looking to add native plants to your garden, you'd be well served to spend some time with Uli Lorimer, curator of the Brooklyn Botanic...
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Summer Goddess Sun Tea with Chamomile Syrup
Making sun tea is kind of like cheating. In the best way. It sounds fancy and tastes delicious, but requires less effort than you'd think. Our Summer Goddess Sun Tea recipe is from this week's resident...
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Best Edible Garden Winner: BaDesign
The Best Edible Garden winner in our Considered Design Awards is Jennifer Ivanovich and Branden Adams of BaDesign, a multi-disciplinary design studio in Oakland, California. The pair combined their...
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How to Turn a Brooklyn Loft into an Urban Oasis
Summer Rayne Oakes may be the only fashion model in New York who spends much of her time tending to house plants. But that's far from all she does. Summer grew up in rural Pennsylvania and has a degree...
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Show Us Your Handpicked Flowers
A few weeks ago, when I was in the throes of my Flower Arranging 101 class, Gardenista contributor Justine Hand suggested that we run a little contest challenging folks to build beautiful bouquets from...
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5 Favorites: Classic Fly Swatters
Some technologies have been improved in the 21st century. Others haven't. Personally, we'll take an old-fashioned, long-handled fly swatter: Above: A Leather Fly Swatter with a handle of white ash is...
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In the News: The Top 5 Posts of the Week
While Michelle is off exploring this week, Margot and I have been holding down the fort back home. And don't let the mosquito bites or sunscreen woes fool you, we're doing just fine. With a few tricks...
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The Beekeeper Diaries: Rob Keller Does Not Get Stung (Today)
"I have all that protective stuff, but I really hate to wear it," Rob Keller said as he gently lifted the lid of a hive to peer inside at its 20,000 or so occupants. I took a step back. "Gorgeous,...
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The Ultimate Open-Air Dinner Party: A Floating Pallet Under the Stars
On a recent July evening, 20 dinner guests gathered for a lamplit mid-summer feast on floating pallets tethered to a riverbank in the middle of Oslo. They felt as if they'd won a lottery—and in a way,...
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Chelsea Miller Knives
A good knife is hard to come by. Ideally a knife is functional foremost, but I hope you can forgive me when I say that I also want my knives to be pretty. We can't have ugly knives marring our...
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