Roots in the Sand: Winter Vegetable Storage
This week's harvest moon has us thinking about ways to store up the last of the season's bounty. Last week, we explored ways to keep vegetables fresh longer and Sarah reminded us of a trick she learned...
View ArticleA Secret Sanctuary, 30 Miles South of Boston
Growing up in a small New England town, I yearned for what most of my peers did: escape. As a teenager, sometimes I needed a place to go to daydream about having a different life, in a city. On those...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Garden Gloves
I have a friend who is the Imelda Marcos of gardening gloves. She has a pair for every occasion: pruning, planting, hot-days, and cold. Truth be told, I can't be bothered with storing or selecting from...
View ArticleDIY: A Chandelier of Fresh Flowers
Call it the ultimate dinner party centerpiece: a chandelier of fresh flowers hanging above the table. And it's easier than it looks. We spotted the project via Paper and Stitch, where blogger Brittni...
View ArticleTrending Today on Remodelista: 5 Reasons to Love London
This week, we let Remodelista's editors loose in London for some design sleuthing. The results: Above: Photograph by Simon Bevan. Christine plus Julie plus popup restaurant: What was on the lunch menu...
View ArticleAn Alpine Hut That Bends the Rules
When a modern-design fan purchased a plot of land approved for construction of a traditional Slovenian hut, his architects created a very modern cabin that still technically follows the rules. The...
View Article5 Favorites: Mini House Plants for Apartment Living
I am a huge nature lover. I love my garden; I love to take long walks in the wilderness. But I have only recently come to embrace the concept of the house plant. I actually think that for a long time...
View ArticleExperts' Favorite Houseplants, Loved with Ease
When we asked landscape designers and gardeners about their favorite houseplants, or the plants they thought were easiest to grow indoors, we quickly realized they were one in the same. (Nobody needs a...
View ArticleTop 5: Trending Today on Remodelista
This week Remodelista's editors slept in. Sarah tested white sheets all over town, Julie bounced on beds in four cities in 10 days (book tour!), and Alexa folded herself up in a Murphy bed. And they...
View ArticleA Reader's Secret Garden: Enchanted Burchetts Wood
On the edge of a large heath land in the county of Surrey in the South of England lives painter and best-selling author Celia Lewis with her chickens and turkeys and sheep—and the occasional pig....
View ArticleSome Like It Variegated: A Pilgrimage to Broken Arrow Nursery
All great gardeners will tell you the same thing: don't select plants for flowers alone. The striking blooms that entice you at the nursery are fleeting. Foliage is really king (and structure) when it...
View ArticleAn Instant Garden Walkway, Courtesy of a Swedish Pergola
From Stockholm-based Nordfjell Collection: a simple steel archway that is all you need to create a freestanding room in the garden. Let vines climb and encase a single Summer Snow Pergola or use...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Landscape Up-Lights
Put your garden's best features into focus with landscape up-lighting. We've rounded up a collection of pole and surface mount up-lights perfect for illuminating trees, garden walls, and other garden...
View ArticleHoliday Glow with Lights from Terrain
We've always been fond of Terrain for its garden staples that are pretty enough to leave on view—copper pitchforks, linen-wrapped clay planters, rain boots handmade in France. But we're especially...
View Article5 Favorites: Gutter Guards
From where I sit perched on my couch, I can see the roof of the garage in the back of my building. At this time of year, and for most of the summer, the crinkled aluminum gutter that runs along the...
View ArticleA River of Stone at Tiger Glen Garden
When the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY built a new wing, architect Pei Cobb Freed & Partners was hired to expand on the classic I.M. Pei design from 1973. A...
View ArticleGardenista Giveaway: Leather Handled French Pruners and Last-a-Lifetime Loppers
We think every gardener should experience the joy of owning—and taking care of—good tools. And by "good," we mean last-a-lifetime tools. The folks at Garrett Wade, sellers of fine tools since 1975,...
View ArticleA Concrete Bench With a Side of Greenery
Tao Concrete is a design and fabrication shop based in Tempe, Arizona. The company's concrete and wood planter bench recently caught our eye, and now we're thinking that every piece of furniture should...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Freestanding Wood Stoves
Not your grandmother's wood stove. A new generation of wood stoves offers high fuel efficiency, high combustion temperatures, and lower emissions to be environmentally responsible powerful heaters for...
View ArticleDIY Outdoor Planter: Rich Fall Hues
I was born in New York, and when we moved to almost-always-warm California during my childhood, one of the things I missed most was fall, and all the sensory delights that I associated with living in a...
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