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Salvias: Late-Season Saviors in the Garden
Long-blooming salvias are saviors in the autumn garden. So when Gravetye Manor’s head gardener Tom Coward met me in a pair of shorts in October, I might have twigged to the semi-tropical splendor in...
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Before & After: A Welcoming Walkway for a Front Garden in North Salem, NY
When Judy and Jeff Wert asked designer Lindsey Taylor to come and look at their garden in Westchester County about 50 miles north of New York City, they were planning to focus on a redesign for the...
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What to Do with the Slope in Your Garden? 6 Attractive Solutions
The degree of difficulty indisputably rises when you’re gardening on a slope (pardon my word play here). There are ways, fortunately, to deal with uneven landscapes that don’t involve just leaving it...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from the Modernists
The Modernists of the past century were optimists. They believed that better gardens meant better living. They helped invent the idea of the friendly garden: a place to live in instead of to work. In...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Household Quandaries, Solved
We love good, smart advice, and our editors at Remodelista and The Organized Home delivered this week with some great recommendations for everything from finding the perfect house painter to sourcing...
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10 Things Your Landscape Architect Wishes You Knew (But Is Too Polite to Tell...
By all accounts, landscape architects Gretchen Whittier and Kate Stickley are courteous people. They must be: after all, along with partner Vera Gates they have created hundreds of happy clients since...
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Gardening 101: Calendula
Pot Marigold, Calendula officinalis: “Faithful Companion” I really want to be that type of gardener who plants by scattering seeds, but I struggle with getting them to successfully germinate. Except...
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10 Easy Pieces: Waterproof Chelsea Boots
The Chelsea boot has been a popular choice for footwear ever since Queen Victoria’s shoemaker patented the design for the new-fangled ankle boots in 1851. (Her majesty wore them daily, it was said.)...
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Garden Visit: Starry Nights and String Lights in Northern California
When Marni Leis moved to Northern California 30 years ago, she experienced culture shock, at least when it came to the local architecture. Mill Valley, where she settled, was known for being “that...
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Putting the Garden to Bed: Your Autumn Check List
Leaves are falling. Days are shrinking, nights are stretching. Autumn is not the end of gardening, but a good time to make plans, prepare, and put to bed. And perhaps grow a salad or three. Read on for...
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Trending on Remodelista: Kitchens and Sustainability, 3 Smart Ideas
The editors at Remodelista and The Organized Home have some great ideas for how to be sustainable when it comes to kitchen design. Here, some examples from this week’s posts: The Forever Kitchen...
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Gardening 101: Kangaroo Paw
Kangaroo Paw, Anigozanthos: “Bizarre Beauty” If you’re not familiar with this unique looking plant, then consider this your lucky day. This relatively recent major-hit is popping up in gardens...
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10 Easy Pieces: Downlights
Downlights in a landscape will focus attention exactly where you need it at night, with minimal light pollution from glare and excessive brightness. By pointing toward your feet, downlights make it...
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Gatehouse Garden: A Dramatic Black Backdrop for a White Wildflower Meadow
In London’s Stoke Common Nature Reserve, a gatehouse built in the early 1990s sits on three bucolic acres, surrounded by woodlands of ferns, pines, and rhododendrons. Extensively remodeled, the...
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Your Garden’s Best Friend: The Life and Times of a Ladybug
Ladybugs feed on thousands of aphids in their lifetime, even laying their eggs on the underside of leaves that are under attack. This way, the larvae that hatch a week later, do not have to look for...
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Gardening 101: How to Plant a Bulb
October is the month to plant spring-blooming bulbs. Which end goes up and how deep should you plant a tulip? We explain the basics: Photography by John Merkl for Gardenista. Q: When should I plant...
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Trending on Remodelista: Beautiful Basics
It was “Practical Matters” week over on Remodelista, which means posts devoted to the less glamorous parts of home life—from how to organize your closet to why you should get an under-sink water...
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Dream Landscapes: 10 Perennial Gardens Inspired by Piet Oudolf
Considered “the most influential garden designer of the past 25 years,” Dutch plantsman Piet Oudolf has done for perennial gardening what artist Leonard Koren did for the concept of wabi-sabi:...
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10 Easy Pieces: Stylish Kitchen Compost Pails
The average American family throws away 20 pounds of food a month. This is the equivalent of stumbling upon a buried pirate’s chest full of jewels and gold doubloons–and then leaving it there to rot....
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Before & After: A Jet Black Garden with White Jasmine Perfume
For a fashion designer in Fulham with a small townhouse backyard about 16 feet wide and 42 feet deep, London-based garden designer Charlotte Rowe came up with a plan to connect the garden visually with...
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