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Garden Visit: La Formentera in Garrison, NY
In the early 1980s Juan Montoya, an interior designer based in New York, had tired of Manhattan's concrete jungle and the disconnect he felt from the subtleties of the seasons. So he went looking for a...
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Week in Review: Chasing Four-Leaf Clovers
In honor of St. Patrick's Day this past Monday, we spent the week chasing rainbows and four-leaf clovers. Green took center stage, we took a tour of the queen of Irish gardening's Dublin retreat,...
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Trending on Remodelista: The British Isles
While we've been ambling in clover patches and generally relishing all things green, the editors over at Remodelista have spent the week bopping around the British Isles. Here's how they caught our...
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Required Reading: Close: Landscape Design and Land Art in Scotland
The other day, celebrating a rare and much longed for day of warmth and sunshine here in Brooklyn, I treated myself to a trip to the Bronx, to the New York Botanical Garden. While most people go this...
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Table of Contents: Spring Forward
"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming" is how Pablo Neruda put it. And for that thought alone, he deserved his Nobel Prize for Literature. This week we welcome spring's...
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Landscape Architect Visit: A Classic Lake Michigan Summer House by Kettelkamp...
It's the classic Midwestern summerhouse. And spring house. And winter house, come to think of it. For clients who wanted a yearround family retreat in southwestern Michigan's Berrien county (which hugs...
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Trend Alert: 10 Essential Gardening Apps to Download Now
With spring's arrival comes a nagging realization that we should be outdoors weeding, digging, fertilizing, staking, and generally cleaning up the debris from winter. So our thoughts naturally turn to...
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Field Guide: Narcissus
Narcissus: "The Sure Thing" The Greek pretty boy Narcissus was universally considered beautiful, and in today’s terms might be the equivalent of People’s Sexiest Man Alive. Passing a pool, he spotted...
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Trend Alert: Stained Raised Beds
While using untreated lumber to construct raised beds is still the gold standard of edible gardening health and environmentalism, we've noticed stained and painted raised beds in gardens lately—and we...
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Steal This Look: A House With Slate Shingle Siding
Spotted in a project by London architecture firm Gundry & Ducker, this slate facade takes a conventional material in a traditional shape and makes it look fresh by keeping the rest of the look...
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Shopper's Diary: The FloraCultural Society in SF's East Bay
When Anna Campbell moved to Oakland, she had dreams of opening a floral shop that would help her reconnect customers to nature. Happily, she found a small triangle of undeveloped land under a busy...
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Garden Roundup: 10 Signs of Spring from the Gardenista Gallery
Is your spring garden blooming yet? How about your spring fire escape? We've rounded up ten of our favorite spring gardens—in the city, in the country, and in between—from our Gardenista Gallery. Let...
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10 Easy Pieces: Garden Kneelers
Getting out in the garden for spring cleaning and planting is tough on a gardener's knees. Garden kneeling pads to the rescue. Here's a round up of three kinds—knee pads, kneelers, and foldable...
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Refreshing Neglected Garden Tools
Some of us at Gardenista are guilty of being a little careless with our garden tools; we've left them out to soak in the rain, scorch in the sun, and decay in buckets of weeds. We love our tools but...
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DIY: Ode to Spring Bouquet
Even for the most hardy, hibernal enthusiasts among us, this winter in New England has gone on way too long. We're still awaiting the first buds, the emergence of tiny green shoots from the frozen...
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Hardscaping 101: Picket Fences
The idea of a house with a picket fence is iconically American. Sturdy, attractive, and ingeniously thrifty with evenly spaced vertical boards that allow daylight to peak through, picket fences...
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Palette & Paints: 5 Favorite Eco-Friendly Stains
On Tuesday, Erin called our attention to the beauty of the color-stained garden bed in Trend Alert: Stained Raised Beds. She noted that untreated lumber is still the gold standard for building raised...
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Required Reading: The Cut Flower Patch
We know that growing our own cut flowers is easy, with clear benefits: thrift, bounty, show-off value. But we don't always get around to doing it, despite the encouragement of small, friendly seed...
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Tips & Tools: Sow Seeds While They're Fresh
When you sow seed that fails, do you blame yourself? It's a little known fact that the seeds of some of our favorite plants need to be sown fresh. On tearing open your carefully chosen seed packets in...
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Outbuilding of the Week: A Garden Shed Made from Reclaimed Redwood
Old redwood fencing takes on a new life as a thoroughly modern shed. The designer, Joseph Sandy, transforms simple materials—corrugated metal roofing, plastic sheeting, reclaimed wood and pegboard—into...
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