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Ikea Ingenuity: A Two-in-One Kitchen and Mini Herb Garden
Spotted, via Italian designers Teste di Legno, an ingenious way to combine off-the-shelf Ikea components to make a custom compact kitchen, complete with a built-in herb garden: Above: The Unacucina...
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10 Easy Pieces: Springlike Canvas Totes
Farmers' market? Check. Baguette pickup? Check. On-the-go diaper bag? Check. This season it's easy to find stylish canvas tote bags fully capable of doing double (or triple) duty. Here is a roundup of...
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DIY: Lavender Soda
Lavender is a perfect plant. It's fragrant, it's beautiful, bees and hummingbirds love it, it's drought tolerant, and best of all, it's edible. Or, in this case, drinkable. Every summer I harvest a...
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Heirloom Seeds: Grow the Same Food Your Grandparents Ate
"Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food" is one of author Michael Pollan's rules. He means stay away from processed junk, of course, but it's also possible to follow his...
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A Chef's Secret Fifth Floor Garden
The windows of the Fifth Floor Restaurant at the Hotel Palomar in San Francisco look onto a gravel “Zen” garden where planters with an array of flowers are cultivated for culinary uses. Chef de cuisine...
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DIY: Grow Lily of the Valley on a Windowsill
When I'm talking about getting plants to flower indoors, I prefer the word "coax" over "force." It sounds kinder, doesn't it? Well, coaxing Lily of the Valley to bloom indoors is a very good thing to...
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High/Low: Which Chippendale Would You Choose?
There's nothing like neoclassical romance in the garden; an artfully placed bench under a tree or against a wall is an irresistible invitation. Given a choice, which Chippendale-inspired outdoor garden...
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DIY: Create a Fantasy Flower Garden
Let's take a minute to envision your fantasy flower garden. Tall, breeze-blown blossoms sway like synchronized swimmers. The clouds of color remind you (again) that you've always wanted to visit...
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A Refrigerator-Free Kitchen?
A design student shows us how to ditch the fridge; read on to discover her secrets. I would do anything to install a pantry in my house with plenty of room for vegetables. Due to lack of space,...
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DIY: Pickled Cherry Blossoms
When our forager friend Louesa Roebuck (see her flower shop here) mentioned she might be pickling cherry blossoms, we asked her to report in detail. Here's what she had to say: "My friend Sylvan...
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10 Easy Pieces: Kitchen Compost Pails
The average American family throws away 20 pounds of food a month. And by "average," I mean me. This is the equivalent of stumbling upon a buried pirate's chest full of jewels and gold doubloons—and...
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The Only Two Secret Ingredients You Need to Make a Refrigerator Smell Fresh
When I was 20, I lived for five months with a woman named Fabienne and her two young daughters in the southern French city of Toulouse. Beyond my utter delight at speaking French all day and indulging...
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The Ultimate Kitchen Garden, Courtesy of a California Master
The steps to creating a kitchen garden sound deceptively easy: build some raised beds, plant vegetables, harvest. Recently when we featured LA garden designer Art Luna's work, he revealed his secrets...
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Bouquet of the Week: Posies of Lily of the Valley
To celebrate the first of May, the French exchange small posies of Lily of the Valley. The delicate stems usually aren't ready for plucking on May 1 in New York, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't make...
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Woodland Plants That Bloom in Dappled Light Under Trees
Pale starry anemones were busy cheering up the roadsides in East Sussex the other day, along with cowslips and bluebells. Pale lilac cuckooflower colonized banks and ditches. These volunteers are all...
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Mini Mushroom Farms
After a childhood spent being warned against wild and possibly poisonous mushrooms, it's no wonder I still have an arm's-length relationship with fungi. But mini mushroom farms could change that:...
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DIY: A Tiny Tabletop Garden for Mother's Day
How cute are tiny succulents? They're more like pets than plants, with their eager expressions and those pillowy leaves you can't resist touching. On Wednesday, Gardenista partnered with the folks at...
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The Great Garbage Disposal Debate
When we packed up and moved to London, I was thrilled with our new kitchen. It was perfectly equipped. The stainless sink partnered with a lovely Vola faucet. It wasn't until my inaugural meal...
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DIY: Rose Petal Honey
On my last day in India, I had my first taste of rose petal honey, swirled into the yogurt I ate for breakfast as I sat on a balcony watching the Taj Mahal shimmer through a haze of humidity. Back...
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The Landscape Designer Is In: Playing Matchmaker Between a House and its Site
Modern houses plunked down in dramatic, often inhospitable settings are the eye candy of countless architecture blogs and books. But all that craggy drama doesn’t leave much room for outdoor living—or...
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