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DIY: A 5 Ingredient Holiday Cocktail Party
'Tis the season for last minute shopping, frantic card writing, and launching headlong into ambitious holiday DIYs. Feeling like you'd rather hole up in your coziest pajamas and watch Love Actually on...
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Gift Guide: For the Armchair Gardener
Of course every gardener you know is going to spend the winter pruning shrubs, raking leaves, and sharpening tools. But this is also the season for curling up indoors and planning ahead for spring. Is...
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Rose Hip Wreaths From The Hedgerow
Wreath suppliers can be talked into selling just the basic spruce or—be prepared to fight—moss, wired on to a metal frame. With a circle of willow, anything can be added. All the better to add what...
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DIY: Gilded Holiday Decor
Creating holiday greenery with foraged plants and a little gold paint is easy and fun. The true beauty of this project lies not only in the results, but in the fact that the outcome—depending on where...
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Christmas Tree in a Bottle?
I love the fresh smell of a Christmas tree as much as Amanda, but I have to admit that her mention of dousing a fake Christmas tree with a spritz of artificial Christmas tree fragrance didn't appeal....
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An English Gardener in the Tropics: 7 Seashell Ornaments, 5 Painted Coconuts,...
The story so far: A few weeks ago, I upended everyone, took the children out of school, put the dog in a crate, packed up all our t-shirts, shorts, and swimmers, rented out my house, and rented another...
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Landscape Architect Visit: A Historic Farm, Ocean Views Included
On the coast of Rhode Island, 70-acre Goosewing Farm in Little Compton has been farmed for 200 years, bounded by three bodies of water: Quicksand Pond, Tunipus Pond, and the Atlantic Ocean. For Michael...
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Shopper's Diary: Liberty of London's Floral Fabrics
Liberty fabric is easy to spot. Dissecting this is less easy, but you know it when you see it. With colors that are joyous even when somber and designs that always sing, the quality of the weave is...
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Christmas Miracle: 5 Poinsettias That Aren't Tacky
Pity the poinsettia. After becoming the butt of so many jokes that the jokes themselves are the cliché, this hard-working holiday plant deserves better. Look at these pale beauties and then tell me you...
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Pots and Planters Iced With a White Glaze
Los Angeles artist Sara Petersen's line of Nantucket Pottery is a play on the interaction of fog and beach. Like fog, the white glaze blankets the sand colored and textured vessels. They're equally at...
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Holidays at Home: Best Photos from the Gardenista Gallery
All year we've been collecting holiday photos that inspire us: our favorite DIY ideas for bringing nature indoors to trim trees, deck halls, and make everything generally merry. We've pulled together a...
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Shopper's Diary: Weekly Flowers to Your Doorstep, from Wild Folk Studio
Take a look at the floral arrangements coming out of Wild Folk Studio and you might not guess that they'd all been made by a single florist, working in a studio tucked into the eaves of her home in...
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House Call: Christmas Decor by Loppelilla in Norway
Spotted on Decor8: inspiring imagery from Irene Finne's Loppelilla, a chronicle of her life in the pristine Norwegian town of Evanger. Along with two friends, Finne runs Patina, a café, store, and...
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Modern Metal from Urban Mettle: House Numbers and Planters
In this season of decorating doors and mailboxes with as much winter greenery as humanly possible, we're already thinking about the rest of the year when houses get stripped back to their bare bones,...
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A White Christmas, with Potted Cyclamen
You can make it snow indoors, you know, with pots of white cyclamen. There are quite a few kinds of cyclamen—nearly two dozen species—and no, we are not supposed to venerate the common, large-flowered...
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MIX Garden, Healdsburg's Well Considered Shop with a Mission
When we first began Remodelista, it was in the early days of online shops and we came across a fantastic nursery and garden store in Austin called Gardens owned by award winning landscape designers...
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Designer Visit: Arne Maynard at Home in Wales
Garden designer Arne Maynard, based in London and Wales, has been a longtime favorite of mine. Having grown up in the Dorset countryside, he knows his plants. That knowledge married with an architect's...
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Gift Guide: For the Herbalist
If you're still searching for the perfect gift for me—oops, I mean an herbalist in your life—here are six special presents that I can guarantee would not only be loved, but actually used: Above: Take a...
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Giveaway Winner: Garrett Wade Digging Tools (and More)
We have a winner. Congratulations and thanks to everyone who entered our latest Gardenista Giveaway of a $224 collection of last-a-lifetime digging tools from Garrett Wade (and accessories to sharpen...
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DIY: A Woodland Holiday Party (Indoors)
There is nothing more magical than an open-air party in a forest clearing. There's a festive smell of pines, ferny green undergrowth, and clear bright moonlight. The only trouble is that in December...
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