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Ask the Expert: 10 Tips for a Zero Waste Garden
My neighbor Bea has persuaded her family (including her husband, Scott, her two sons and a tiny dog) to live with less stuff than the average monk—and to produce no garbage. She's a high priestess of...
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5 Favorites: Stylish Rain Barrels
A drought in California has us carefully considering the ways that we're planning to approach our gardening this spring and summer. In addition to planting Drought Tolerant Perennials, we're hoping to...
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Drink Up: A Good-Looking Water Filter
Ready to trade your plastic Brita pitcher for something a little more presentable? This new glass design from Soma just might fit the bill. Its creation story goes something like this: at a dinner...
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The Dark Mirror: A Backyard Reflecting Pool in Eastern Europe
From the street, you would never know. A tall hedge of clipped yew hides a backyard reflecting pool whose surface is "a dark mirror," designed to reflect the sky and clouds above Brno in the Czech...
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Steal This Look: A Seaside Beauty in Marin
If we had a seaside vacation home, we'd want ours to be architecturally refined, eco-friendly, and ultimately casual, just like the Seadrift House by San Francisco-based CCS Architecture. Located a...
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Shopper's Diary: Natural Flower Dyes and Silk Scarves, from Cara Marie Piazza
As a florist and flower lover, I like to see flowers put to good use. The downside of working in the world of floral design is that there's a considerable amount of floral waste. Leftover flower scraps...
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Design Sleuth: Vertical Garden of Terra Cotta Pots
In Australia, where drought is nothing new, we often spot clever ideas for creating eco-friendly, low-water gardens. In this case, interior designer Claire Larritt-Evans used a custom version of an...
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Ask the Expert: 11 Tips for Designing a Water-Conscious Garden
With offices in Phoenix, Arizona and Austin, Texas, landscape architect Christine Ten Eyck knows a thing or two about designing in arid landscapes. Lest you think the solution to designing a...
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10 Easy Pieces: Rain Chains
Downspouts are one of those items that homeowners like to ignore. And who can blame us? Downspouts are not very attractive. They can be loud when they are effective, and troublesome when they aren't...
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Dry Garden Roundup: Best Drought-Tolerant Designs from the Gardenista Gallery
The water crisis here in California has us thinking about gardens and plants that can thrive with minimal water needs. We browsed our Image Gallery—a collection of more than 3,800 photos—for...
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DIY: Indigo Dye with Cara Marie Piazza
Indigo is an ancient color, a natural dye extracted from a plant of the same name, and the only true blue dye in nature. It's been found in ancient Egyptian mummy wrappings and was so valued by the...
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Ask the Expert: 7 Ways to Save Water in the Garden, from a Graywater Crusader
I don't know anybody who's not worried about water. There's either too much of it or too little. In California, where I live, we're experiencing the worst drought in a century. In New York, where my...
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Shopper's Diary: Caffé Spina in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Before opening Caffé Spina in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Vanessa Chinga-Haven was busy crunching numbers behind the scenes as financial adviser to floral designer and event planner Paul Diaz of Spina NYC....
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Hardscaping 101: Rain Gutters
Often little noticed, rain gutters occupy a prominent place on many homes. They're frequently perched at the end of a slanted roof, where they are not only a critical part of a building's...
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5 Quick Fixes: Garden Hose Management
Beyond the standard issue hose hanger; five practical and innovative ideas to detangle the garden hose and keep it off the ground. Above: The galvanized Steel Hose Hanger from Swiss company Alba Krapf...
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Outbuilding of the Week: An Old Barn Becomes an Energy-Efficient Guesthouse
At night, an old barn glows like a full moon, thanks to its new translucent skin. Architects Carver + Schicketanz transformed the hand hewn oak skeleton, transporting it from New Hampshire to become an...
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Fields of Green: 5 Favorite Lawn Substitutes
Ah, the scent of freshly mowed grass. And... lawn mower noise, grass allergies, proliferation of chemical fertilizers, obscene water consumption, and continual war with lawn intruders (of the "weed"...
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5 Favorites: Rain Gauges
Growing up in Seattle, I was always looking for ways to turn rainy weather into entertainment. Rain gauges might not be the first thing to jump to mind. But, at the risk of sounding like my elementary...
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Week in Review: The Rain Dance
This week has been a watery one on Gardenista. We've measured water, stored water, and stopped ourselves from diving straight off the deep end. Maybe our rain dances have helped, because it poured in...
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A Garden You Water Four Times a Year
Australia is the driest inhabited continent, a fact that might scare off some gardeners. Not David Glenn. Two decades ago Glenn, a nurseryman from England for whom the word "garden" conjured images of...
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