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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Scandinavia
Consider that in the northernmost parts of Scandinavia the growing season is 60 days long. The rest of the year is basically a prelude to or recovery from winter. This is all you need to know to...
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Trend Alert: Floral Confetti
A wedding is a great excuse to walk around the garden in the loaming, basket and scissors in hand, collecting fresh flowers for confetti. But why wait for such a big occasion? If you enjoy deadheading,...
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10 Easy Pieces: Outdoor Folding Chairs
What I love about warm weather: Guests show up at a moment's notice. Sometimes it's easier to feed them than to seat them, though, unless you have a secret stash of folding chairs—the weather-resistant...
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Technical Difficulties: Gardenista Awards Submissions
Dear Readers: Nobody's perfect, especially us. We were so thrilled to hit the launch button on this year's Considered Design Awards that we failed to notice a fatal flaw: our apologies, but projects...
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Winner's Prize: 2014 Gardenista Considered Design Awards
In addition to receiving a full project profile on our site, all seven winners of the 2014 Gardenista Considered Design Awards will be given a limited-edition Jieldé SI333 Signal Desk Lamp in Bronze (a...
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Hardscaping 101: Hog Wire
What I've noticed more and more lately (and admired) are hog wire panels: used for fences, gates, and trellises. A mainstay on ranches for decades, hog wire panels been discovered by homeowners and...
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GROW London: A New Contemporary Garden Fair on Hampstead Heath
A new kind of garden event is coming to town this week. It's called GROW London, The Contemporary Garden Fair, and it's exactly what we've been waiting for. Yes, the Chelsea Flower Show just finished...
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A Family Recipe for Elderflower Cordial via Dublin
Our friends at Makers & Brothers, the dashing purveyors of Irish design Jonathan and Mark Legge, like to keep things in the family. But they've generously shared their mother's recipe for...
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Outbuilding of the Week: The 186-Square-Foot Guest Cottage
Raise your hand if you have space to sleep all your houseguests. Thought not. Basically, no one has enough guest rooms. But as I learned from living in New York (where for two years I operated a de...
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DIY: Foraging for a Midsummer Botanical Tabletop
As a born-and-bred do-it-yourselfer, I like to rely on Mother Nature for summertime entertaining. On a visit to my Connecticut hometown, I gathered Queen Anne's Lace from a fallow field and clipped...
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Trending on Remodelista: Scandi Midsummer
The longest day of the year is Saturday, June 21. To celebrate the solstice, the editors over at Remodelista took their cue from the Nordic countries, who know how to greet summer in style: They...
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Current Obsessions: Summer Solstice
Really, summer just got here? We've been celebrating for weeks now, but this is the first official day. And here are a few summery things that caught our eye this week: Above: Inspired tabletops with...
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Garden Visit: Tage Andersen, Renaissance Man at Gunillaberg
In the forest highlands of southern Sweden's Smaland province, you'll find the garden and manor house of renowned Danish florist and artist Tage Andersen. Andersen is a polymath: sculptor, chef,...
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Composting: Are You Obsessed?
Is an obsession with composting a peculiarly male trait? I can't imagine a woman thinking, "I must go out and cover the compost" when it starts to rain. Nor can I imagine pulling over during the school...
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Table of Contents: Life Aquatic
They say every garden should have a water feature. Ponds count. So does a beach, if it's visible from at least one window. Join us this week as we explore the benefits of the life aquatic: the crunch...
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Landscape Architect Visit: La Noria in the South of France
The creativity of French landscape designers Arnaud Maurières and Eric Ossart is almost overwhelming. They were already ahead of the game when they gave us the style called le nouveau fleurissement...
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The Countdown Is On: Submit Your Projects to the Considered Design Awards
There are two full weeks left to submit your projects to the second annual Remodelista + Gardenista Considered Design Awards. Be sure to get your entries in by Monday, July 7, for a chance to win a...
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Field Guide: Nettles
Nettles, Urtica dioica: "The Generous Gardener" A traditional nickname for the stinging nettle is "devil's plaything." It's easy to demonize this wild plant as the scourge of country walks, since it...
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Garden Visit: Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage at Dungeness
The space around this modest cottage in Dungeness, Kent, the former home of the multitalented filmmaker Derek Jarman (1942-1994), could be considered one of England's best-loved gardens. The property...
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Steal This Look: Beach Cottage on the Dutch Coast
Located 34 miles southwest of Amsterdam is Katwijk aan Zee, a beach town on the North Sea where Dutch firm Kust Architects has placed 10 stylishly simple beach cabanas on the white sand. The cabanas...
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