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Field Guide: Chives
Chives, Allium schoenoprasum: "Friendly Wanderer" Are you craving an herb that looks like fairies planted it? How about one that tastes divine, repels bad insects, attracts bees, and grows in shade? Or...
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10 Easy Pieces: Garden Gloves
I have a friend who is the Imelda Marcos of gardening gloves. She has a pair for every occasion: pruning, planting, hot-days, and cold. Truth be told, I can't be bothered with storing or selecting from...
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Architect Visit: A Kitchen Garden on Cape Cod
For my aunt—architect Sheila Bonnell—designing a house for herself and husband Mon Cochran (see page 108 in Remodelista: A Manual for the Considered Home) meant creating a dwelling that felt integrated...
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Steal This Look: Starry Night Outdoor Dining
A twinkly outdoor dining room in Los Angeles gets points in our book for not being fussy. Major elements include a rustic table and benches, white string lights, and a low-key table scape. We've done...
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Required Reading: Decorate With Flowers
When Holly Becker, author of Decorate, teamed up with stylist Leslie Shewring to write a book about floral arranging, the pair knew theirs would be a spontaneous approach to bringing flowers into the...
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DIY Home Spa, Mother's Day Edition
A pampered mom is a happy mom. Or at least that's true of my own mother. But I think that's safe to say about most people; we all like a little rest and relaxation. At a young age my mother imparted...
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DIY: How to Make a Vase of Flowers Last a Week
Never a one-hit wonder, a good garden is always in flux, introducing new colors, and textures throughout the season. The same can be said for the best bouquets. But while we celebrate the vicissitudes...
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10 Easy Pieces: Metal Plant Stands
It's official: we're ready to live outdoors for the next four months. And that means we're also ready to spruce up our outdoor spaces with stylish metal plant stands that will look just as good when we...
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Architects' Roundup: 10 Garden Stairways
Our favorite stairs are the ones that are part of the garden, nestled right in to something green. We found ten we like by members of the Remodelista + Gardenista Architect/Designer Directory—some are...
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The HERShovel: For Women, By Women, Pink Not Included
Until I stumbled upon Green Heron Tools, I thought all gardening tools were created equal. Gardening tools marketed to women just meant shades of pink and mint and plenty of florals. Not so, say Ann...
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Shopper's Diary: Ancient Remedies From a Modern Apothecary
Inside a tiny shed studio at the back of a sprawling artists’ compound in East Austin, Texas, Tamara Becerra Valdez is surrounded by nature. Dried and drying herbs and wildflowers are...
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Hardscaping 101: Brick Patios
We learned this early: When the third little pig chose brick, he knew what he was doing. As a building material, brick has stood the test of time. It's hardworking, aesthetically versatile, easily...
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Garden Tech: Botany and Plant ID Apps for Citizen Scientists
Ever since writing about the impact that Thoreau's carefully curated notebooks have made on modern day phenology research, I've been preoccupied with the idea of folks putting their general enthusiasm...
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Outbuilding of the Week: Artemis Russell's Tiny Garden Shed
Until I convince my landlord to allow me to build a tiny workshop on the roof of my building in Brooklyn, I'm satisfied to ogle photographs of other people's garden work spaces and cultivate a perfect...
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A Texas Quilter Cooks Up Plant-Based Colors for an Age-Old Craft
It may seem old-fashioned to use onion skins to dye a hand-stitched quilt that's meant to be handed down for generations. But Texas-based quilter Maura Grace Ambrose wouldn't agree. Ambrose makes...
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Trending on Remodelista: Handywomen
While we've been admiring resourceful women in the gardening and outdoor world, the team at Remodelista has been featuring women contributing to the world of architecture and interiors (while also...
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Current Obsessions: New in the Garden
We're wrapping up a week dedicated to the women in our lives with a few things that recently caught our eye: Above: A Hollywood actress restores eight NYC gardens. Photograph courtesy of New York...
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A Writer's Garden: Eudora Welty in Mississippi
Eudora Welty's parents built a house in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1925, when she was a girl, and until her death in 2001 she wrote there, sitting at a bedroom window with a view of life on Pinehurst...
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Table of Contents: Outdoors In
Now that the weather has finally warmed up, we've thrown open our doors and are spending as many hours outside as we possibly can. If we have go indoors, we still want to feel like we're living in a...
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Indoor/Outdoor Living, Napa Style
I had admired my friend Renee's Napa Valley house from afar long before I got to know her. Hidden behind a wooden gate, the house itself was hard to see, but the low front fence and graveled outer...
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