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Required Reading: The Wildlife Gardener
"Imagine a world in which blades of grass tower above you," writes Kate Bradbury in The Wildlife Gardener. "Where trees are giants and flowers big plates of food." Crawling through the undergrowth,...
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What's the Point of Wasps?
The picnic is ready. The weather has been kind and dietary requirements taken into consideration. The drinks are being poured. And then? A wasp looms into view, followed by another. "They're worse than...
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10 Easy Pieces: U-Pick Orchards
The chill that creeps into the air signals the arrival of apple and pear season. Bushel baskets of pink, green, and red apples will appear at farmers' markets. But to get your hands on the freshest...
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A Rooftop Garden for All Seasons in Rotterdam
In 2002, landscape architect Astrid Hölzer and her husband bought a two-story apartment in a typical Dutch "herenhuis" (circa 1909) in Rotterdam. The apartment, on the top two floors of the townhouse,...
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The Perfect Potting Shed Bin
Leave it to the Swiss to develop a waste bin that's as functional as it is nice to look at. If I had a potting shed to speak of, I'd be tempted to outfit it with the whole catalog of lidded receptacles...
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You Pin It, We ID It: A Stylish Collection of Houseplants
Love at first sight is a daily occurrence around here. Pinterest doles out plenty houseplant inspiration (and envy). Every time we refresh our stream, there are new houseplants to ogle. We spot a photo...
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Gardenista Giveaway Winner: 66 Square Feet Cookbook
Ready to create menus from food you grow yourself? Our randomly selected winner of a copy of the cookbook 66 Square Feet: A Delicious Life by Marie Viljoen is our reader Adriana, a new subscriber to...
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Rugged Garden Style by Artifact Bag Co.
Here at Gardenista we relish garden garb that's both rugged enough to stand up to our active lifestyles, yet sophisticated enough to tote down town. Hence the artisanal goods of Artifact Bag Co....
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A Manhattan Nursery School Where Gardening is in the Curriculum
In Manhattan's Greenwich Village where space is tight and gardens rare, the First Presbyterian Church Nursery School recently transformed a "baking hot" rooftop playground into an edible garden. And...
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Spruced Up: A New Apothecary in Portland, Oregon
In 2005, when Craig Olson and Sean Igo opened Canoe in Portland, OR, their interiors and design shop proved well ahead of the curve and helped put Portland on the design map. The pair recently added...
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Roundup: Our Favorite Garden Gates
Hardly a garden feature comes to mind more charming than the garden gate. A personal favorite is the too-low-to-be-useful white picket fence with a gate that opens to a blowsy summer garden. But maybe...
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A Luxury Step Ladder in Pink Washed Oak from Iacoli & McAllister
Did you just finish hanging a hard-to-reach houseplant? Worried about how you'll reach it for weekly waterings? Don't fret. We've found just the thing you're after. A new piece from a design favorite,...
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10 Easy Pieces: Architects' White Exterior Paint Picks
At the risk of stating the obvious, it's hard to find the best outdoor paint for your house. White is a classic, but choose the wrong shade and you'll end up with a very expensive mistake. We wanted...
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The New English Garden, by Tim Richardson
Tim Richardson is Britain's leading garden thinker, contributing to every garden journal of note and directing the Chelsea Fringe Festival when not thus engaged. His latest book, The New English...
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At Home With Prince Charles: A Garden Ramble
On arriving at Highgrove, home of the Prince of Wales, you can't help feeling a little excited. Tickets are not easy to come by and a passport is required on the day. A sign declares "Warning: You Are...
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An Ounce of Prevention: A Natural Remedy for Cold and Flu Season
The back-to-school season should be about freshly sharpened pencils, uncreased notebooks, and squeaky clean new sneakers—not worrying about coming down with a cold. Fortify your germ-fighting abilities...
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Design Sleuth: A Very Sophisticated Growlight
I spotted no fewer than ten fancy grooming supplies to add to my wishlist after reading Sarah's post yesterday on the new Spruce Apothecary in Portland. But it was the brass and handblown glass...
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Nesting Garden Boxes from Peg and Awl
Made from reclaimed wood that's more than a century old, a set of three nesting garden boxes from Peg and Awl would be just as happy on a kitchen shelf. But remember that with winter coming, you'll...
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Pack It To Go: Apple Coconut Crisp
Olivia Rae James of Everyday Musings sees apples and her mind skips directly over pie to rustic, buttery crisps. We like the way her mind works. When we asked her to devise a very-September recipe us,...
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A Cloth Sack to Swaddle Tiny Houseplants
I'm a big fan of the cachepot. First, it's an excuse to practice my French—that's ˈkaSH(ə)ˌpō for you anglophones—and then there's the fact it prevents me from turning my apartment into a potting shed....
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