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5 Quick Fixes: Last-Minute Mother's Day Flowers
It's Mother's Day and -- relax, because you still have a couple of hours before it's time for brunch (or breakfast in bed). Plenty of time to make a simple (and heartfelt) last-minute bouquet or floral...
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Announcing the Gardenista Considered Design Awards
We'll be handing out awards in five categories (see below) in our first annual Gardenista Considered Design Awards contest. The competition is open to anyone with an indoor or outdoor garden, and...
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11 Ways to Look Younger Instantly (Hint: Light a Candle)
Half light is your best friend. This is an epiphany I had about candlelight years ago, when we started to light up for special events—dinner parties, birthdays, holiday meals. As soon as the...
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DIY: Glamorous Lilacs Inspired by Daisy Buchanan
Given the chance to dream up what the flowers might have looked at one of Jay Gatsby's parties, I see lilacs. Lots of them. Spring is lumbering forward on the East Coast and with it, some of my very...
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Required Reading: The Forager's Kitchen
Describe your life in a tweet, I say. The answer comes back without hesitation: "Six kids, living on an island on a wing and a prayer with occasional dabs of donated Jo Malone to combat seaweed and...
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Grandeur in the Hamptons: A Sprawling Estate Garden in Watermill
Landscape architect Quincy Hammond's gardens owe their graciousness to her grandfathers' genteel Southern flowers, grown in a family nursery in Georgia. On a Hamptons estate in Watermill near the...
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5 Favorites: Outdoor Bar Carts
Is there a happier sound than the jangly approach of a bar cart on wheels? Here are five of our favorite outdoor bar carts for summer entertaining: Above: A teak Jeeves Drink Trolley has two removable...
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A Great Gatsby Garden: The Lavish Long Island Estate That Inspired The...
There was a girl who grew up in the Phipps mansion on Long Island's Gold Coast and she was named Margaret but she went by Peggie, and she married young and divorced. Her second marriage lasted longer...
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Contest: Enter to Win a Moravian Star Pendant to Light Up Outdoor Parties
Do you like warm nights and candlelight at outdoor parties? We're in the throes of a warm spell here in Northern California, which means both. To celebrate, we're sponsoring a Kick Off Summer Contest...
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DIY: Simple Tips for Growing Your Own Vegetable Garden
Growing your own vegetables and herbs is easier than you think—and the result is absolute luxury. The essentials: a simple plan, plenty of sunlight, proper nutrition, and ample water. Inspired? Here...
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Considering the Fiddle Leaf Fig
You've seen them. They're everywhere. They're lush and sculptural and they make for excellent eye candy in photographs of some of the most beautiful apartments you see floating around the Internet. The...
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A Secret Garden in the Middle of Regent's Park in London
Usually secrets don't stay secret for very long. Which was why I was genuinely worried that my "secret garden" in central London would be gone, ruined, or not secret any more, if I went back after an...
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10 Easy Pieces: Metal Window Boxes
Last month, after we posted a story about some of our favorite wooden window boxes, a reader named Chris asked us to suggest some metal window boxes, as well: "It's hard to find simple, attractive...
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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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5 Favorites: Glamorous Ring Door Knockers
Door knockers have been around for centuries, created for the pragmatic purpose of announcing the arrival of guests and, later, to make a visual statement. Some were even designed to ward off evil...
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Read Gardenista and Remodelista on Flipboard
Do you sometimes feel nostalgic for the look and the feel of a glossy paper magazine, where you could flip through gorgeous photos and beautifully laid out stories? Us too. We remember—and yes, yearn...
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The Inside Scoop on the 100th Annual Chelsea Flower Show
The Chelsea Flower Show is coming to town. This year more than ever we've been able to see that it doesn't just land, like a perfectly formed spaceship, on the banks of the River Thames. Everyone with...
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10 Easy Pieces: Cafe-Style Outdoor String Lights
I speak from experience when I say that if one of your jobs as a child was to follow your mother around the backyard, slowly unfurling garlands of glowing bulbs for her to wrap around the trunk of the...
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DIY: Add Edible Flowers to Your Salad
Nasturtium petals in salad, borage in ice cubes, a cake strewn with roses and dianthus: We've been eating flowers in our house since author Sarah Raven suggested it in her book The Great Vegetable...
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Texas Treasure: Where to Find the Bluebonnets
Texans are looking for quantity, for bluebonnets en masse. They want hundreds, maybe thousands of them, carpeting the roadsides. That’s why this time of the year so many people in the Texas Hill...
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