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Your First Garden: The Only 5 Tools You Need to Get Started
I’m big on activities that require very little equipment. Like running: just a pair of running shoes and you’re good to go. Like roasting: just a pan and your ingredients, no machinery or extra...
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Gardening 101: Lily-of-the-Valley Shrub
Lily-of-the-Valley Shrub, Pieris japonica Is your garden challenged with limiting shade and marauding deer? And do you like plants that are low-maintenance, evergreen, colorful, and won’t be devoured...
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Outermost Chair: The Original Adirondack Reborn
Do you have one? That one piece of furniture that you just had to own. That you painstakingly saved for. That, after all these years, continues to inspire. For Chris Nagle, owner of Outermost Home in...
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Landscaping Ideas: Mid-century Minimalism in Christchurch, New Zealand
“The garden is a very important part of the living environment of the home,” says Kristina Pickford, architectural historian and owner of the Ballantyne House, a midcentury modern house in...
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Trending on Remodelista: California Dreaming
We love it when Remodelista turns their collective attention to the Golden State and its distinctive coastal bohemian style. Here are some highlights from their week of California dreaming: Above:...
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Rental Garden Makeovers: 10 Best Budget Ideas for an Outdoor Space
Most renters, especially if they’re not planning a long stay, prefer not to spend too much time or money fixing up someone else’s property. But what if they still want a nice outdoor space? We asked...
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Design Trend: 15 Wooden Decks That Disappear Into the Landscape
The best wooden deck is one you don’t notice: It creates outdoor living space without distracting you from the outdoors. Here are 15 of our favorite wood decks—built of cedar, redwood, or tropical...
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Gardening 101: Camellia
Camellia: “Old-Fashioned Favorite” On my street growing up there was one shrub that every house had planted on the north side near the front door: a camellia. My neighborhood was built as low-cost,...
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Black Beauties: 8 Favorite Dark Colored Plants
Feeling a tad moody and dark lately? Me too. And while darkness as an emotion isn’t totally desirable, in the world of plants it’s a completely different thing. When you add dark beauties to your...
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Garden Designer Visit: Annika Zetterman’s Ode to the Swedish Coast
Swedish garden designer Annika Zetterman, author of New Nordic Gardens, brings to life gardens that seamlessly extend the natural Swedish landscape. For clients on the island of Värmdö in the Stockholm...
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Trending on Remodelista: Natural Therapy
We could all do with a little more fresh air these days, but with shelter-at-home laws in place in so many areas, it may be a challenge to actually get outdoors. Remodelista’s “Back to Nature” week...
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Everything You Need to Know About Rambler Roses
Rambler roses often get overlooked for their more showy relatives, but they deserve better. Although many ramblers bloom only once per season (there are some exceptions), they continue from June and...
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Pull Up a Seat: Our Favorite Folding Metal Bistro Chairs (Starting from $25)
What I love about warm weather: Guests show up at a moment’s notice. Sometimes it’s easier to feed them than to seat them, though, unless you have a secret stash of folding chairs—the weather-resistant...
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Gardening 101: Pincushion Flower
Pincushion flower, Scabiosa atropurpurea Poor flower. Scabiosa, pronounced “skay-bee-OH-suh” is not a very appealing name. The genus refers to the Latin word “scabius,” meaning itch, a reference to the...
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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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You’re Invited: A Virtual Screening of ‘Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet...
Two years ago, we were entranced by filmmaker Thomas Piper’s Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf. “For gardeners everywhere, the film is a tantalizing 75 minutes in which to lose yourself in one...
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Trending on Remodelista: Small Space Smarts
A trove of ideas for living smart in small spaces over on Remodelista: Above: Designer Glenn Bann’s bright, charming home belies its tiny 600-square-foot size. Photograph by Weston Wells for Laura...
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Garden Visit: Spanish Colonial-Style Made Modern in LA
Nothing against the Golden State, but there aren’t many things that make me want to pack up my things and move to California. (I’m an East Coaster, through and through.) But I have to admit that...
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Gardening 101: How to Add Epsom Salts to Soil
Here in Half Moon Bay on the Northern California coast where I live and design gardens, I have to admit my garden—and my clients’—all stay pretty happy without much help. Well, they did anyway. Then...
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5 Favorites: Wooden Elevated Planters
Bring your gardening to new heights with an elevated planter box. “Why,” you ask, “a garden box on legs?” There are several benefits to an elevated planter: Offers “no-bend” gardening, reducing strain...
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