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In the Weeds: A Foraging Food Show
Foraging for wild edibles has reached a level of near hysteria. The exciting hunt for fresh, local sustainable food that the earth offers up has captured the imagination of many. We are foragers by...
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Shopper's Diary: Portland Apothecary
Do you love the concept of herbal medicine but find yourself paralyzed in the Whole Foods wellness department trying to make sense of all the options? Maybe you even have a collection in your medicine...
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Week in Review: Straight From the Kitchen Garden
This week, stories of gardeners lucky enough to have fresh vegetables growing outside their kitchen doors made us hungry. Make that ravenous. Lindsey welcomed us into the world's prettiest kitchen...
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5 Beautiful Ways to Make Fresh Herbs Last Longer
Hiding a limp bundle of fresh rosemary or thyme in the back of the crisper drawer? I call this pure sacrilege. Herbs should be celebrated both for their culinary usefulness and for their beauty. With...
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Steal This Look: Irish Cottage Garden
When I was a girl and slept at my grandmother's house, we stayed up to watch John Wayne movies. This was how, at an impressionable age and a very late hour, I happened for the first time to see...
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This Week's Table of Contents: In the Clover
Do four-leaf clovers exist? Have you ever found one? We could use a little luck around here, so in honor of St. Patrick's Day we'll be looking. In the meantime, we are happy to report that this week...
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Architect Visit: An Irish Stone Stable on a Dramatic Landscape
For nearly 40 years, a retired couple from Dublin enjoyed a second home on the west coast of Ireland, about an hour's drive from Galway. As visiting children and grandchildren became a constant...
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Field Guide: Hornbeam
Hornbeam, Carpinus: "The Hedge of Dreams" “Build it, and they will come,” the voices told Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams, prompting him to make an entire baseball stadium from scratch on his Iowa...
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A Perfect Parasol from Sunbeam Jackie
The Brits accessorize their gardens like no one else and their latest garden must-have is a handcrafted, luxury Sunbeam Jackie Parasol, created by artist couple Charlie and Katy Napier in their 12th...
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Landscape Architect Visit: A Living Wall in London by Adam Shepherd
Behind a handsome Georgian townhouse in the bustling neighborhood of Islington in central London, garden designer Adam Shepherd transformed a damp, gloomy garden into a lush escape for a young couple...
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Steal This Look: A Black Backyard Backdrop at Library House
Some gardens stick with you. In the five months since I first came across the backyard of designer Jessica Helgerson's Library House in Portland, Oregon, in the New York Times, I've found myself...
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Order the World's Best Narcissi Online: But Please, Don't Call Them Daffodils
The best place to grow flowers in all of the UK is the Scillies (pronounced "sillies") and farmers there have been doing so for centuries. Today, florists still get their winter supply from these...
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5 Favorites: Garden-Friendly Thistles
Legend has it that the thorny thistle once saved Scotland from a marauding Norse army, a feat that earned this tenacious plant its status as a Scottish national symbol. But these days it's staging an...
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10 Easy Pieces: Galvanized Trough Planters
Can you name one potted plant that wouldn't look great peeking over the edge of a galvanized metal trough? Me either. And let us not forget this is the sort of planter that improves with age. Sturdy,...
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The Language of Flowers Workshop with Ginny Branch and Ashley Bailey
It's easy to wax romantic about flowers. But a two-day spring workshop with some of the most admired talents in the business really does sound dreamy. For two days in May, stylist-extraordinaire Ginny...
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Architects' Roundup: 10 Emerald Green Gardens
Though there's green in nearly every garden, we love it when the color gets a solo show. Here, we gathered ten gardens from members of the Remodelista + Gardenista Architect/Designer Directory...
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Garden Visit: Helen Dillon's Garden in Dublin
The closest thing to gardening experience that renowned plantswoman Helen Dillon had before starting her legendary garden was working as a junior staffer at Amateur Gardening magazine in England at age...
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Hardscaping 101: Artificial Grass
Artificial grass has come a long way since the first AstroTurf carpeted the Houston Astrodome in 1966. With a drought underway in California, it's no wonder I'm noticing more homes with fake turf in my...
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Palette & Paints: 10 Paint Picks for the Perfect Green Shutters
Bold green shutters against a neutral-colored house is a look that has stood the test of time. The combination varies widely, so we sourced ten of our favorites. If you're considering the color combo...
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Outbuilding of the Week: A Backyard Writer's Shed by Weston Surman & Deane
I think most of us will agree that there's no more pleasant spot to spend an afternoon working than in the garden. But for many of us, moving a desk, chair, and personal library into the garden would...
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