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Week in Review: Inching Toward Spring
This week we made a dated cut glass vase look good, fantasized about strolling through stately gardens, and learned the nitty-gritty about Pennsylvania bluestone. Next week we're working in the kitchen...
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DIY: Shade-Tolerant Herbs To Grow in Your Apartment
Buttermilk biscuits with chive butter, egg salad with ribbons of tarragon, iced tea with fresh mint. There are a lot of reasons to love warm weather, and the addition of fresh herbs to some of my...
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Let Twilight Linger: 10 Early Evening Gardens from the Gardenista Gallery
In many parts of the world today, we set our clocks forward an hour—bringing us closer to summer while robbing us of valuable sleep. But we do it for the twilight: starting today, our evenings will...
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Table of Contents: Issue Number 10 • Mr. McGregor's Garden
We try our best not to be as ornery as Mr. McGregor, but we do appreciate his reverence for the patch of carefully cultivated land known as the kitchen garden. What better place to expend your precious...
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Landscape Architect Visit: A Refined Kitchen Garden and Outdoor Dining Room...
I tend toward a fondness for kitchen gardens because they delight both sides of my brain. On one hand they can be wild and unruly and just a little bit scraggly, but they also tend be places where...
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Field Guide: Carrots
Carrots: "The Honey Underground" Carrots began, like so many vegetables, in the wild. Earlier cultures used the leaves and seeds as medicine. Through cultivation and selection, carrots evolved into the...
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Greenhouse as Restaurant
De Kas restaurant, the Dutch rendition of Chez Panisse-meets-the-French Laundry, occupies a top spot on our must-visit list. De Kas (the name is Dutch for greenhouse) is located on the outskirts of...
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Charles Dowding's No-Dig (And No Weed) Garden in Somerset
Why do people dig? I'm not at all sure after reading Charles Dowding's book Veg Journal. His ideas—mounds of beds with no edging, paths of soil instead of trimmed grass—involve less heavy toil and less...
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Gardenista Houseplant Guide on West Elm's Front + Main
If you ask us, a room just isn't complete without a little something green to pull it together. West Elm agrees. Embracing the idea of greenery in the home is the first step toward reaching home décor...
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Steal This Look: Dining Al Fresco in Daylesford
In my rich garden fantasy life, I not only have a well-appointed kitchen garden from which I can harvest delicious food on demand, I also have a perfect al fresco dining spot for enjoying the bounty....
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The Hanging Kitchen Garden by Boskke
It's a conundrum. With their refined palates, many urbanites would love nothing more than to grow fresh herbs for their own meals. But in tiny apartments where even a windowsill is considered prime...
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Shopper's Diary: Blueberry Café in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands of South Africa
Part country store, part café, and part wedding and reception venue, Blueberry Café in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands of South Africa was recently given a total overhaul by South African product and design...
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Garden Fixture Roundup: Outdoor Utility Sinks
An outdoor utility sink is a luxury we could get used to. Here, we've gathered a collection of favorites. Some are supremely simple basins with drainage holes, others are the grand, built-in fixtures...
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10 Easy Pieces: Herb Markers
Growing up I was often given the chore of snipping herbs for the evening's dinner. Usually the task was simple (rosemary, mint, thyme), but then there was lemon thyme and purple basil and shiso leaves...
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DIY: Blueberry Café's Hanging Planters
One of my favorite elements of this week's Shopper's Diary of Blueberry Café in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands of South Africa are the hanging plant baskets suspended from the glass atrium. They manage to...
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Garden Visit: Sarah Raven's Perch Hill
Sarah Raven, gardener, writer and TV personality, has it pretty good as far as I can tell. She lives in East Sussex, England, a mecca for gardeners, in a charming old dairy farm called Perch Hill where...
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Hardscaping 101: Asphalt Roof Shingles
As the framing of my new house neared completion and the roofers were about to arrive, I found myself staring at roofs in the area, wondering which type to choose. I like standing seam metal roofs, but...
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10 Easy Pieces: Trugs and Harvest Baskets
You've toiled to reap a bounty from your garden. Don't let it drop now. Equip yourself with a trug to collect and carry your harvest. We've rounded up our favorite wooden and woven garden trugs to do...
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Ask The Expert: Sarah Raven's 10 Tips for Growing a Kitchen Garden
British gardening and cookery writer Sarah Raven is fortunate in being scientific as well as artistic. She is also a busy person who likes to eat so her kitchen garden is organized in a way that gives...
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Outbuilding of the Week: All-in-One Henhouse, Toolshed, and Art Gallery
When contemporary art collectors Marlies and Jo Eyck purchased the 17th century Wijlre Castle in the Netherlands, they got sprawling formal gardens—and a dilapidated garden building. The structure,...
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