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San Cristobal Stables by Luis Barragán
When I was introduced to the work of Mexican architect Luis Barragán, I couldn’t understand why anyone would think of modern architecture as a cold discipline. Looking back on my architecture training,...
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Chelsea's Great Pavilion and What Goes on Within
For many visitors to this week's 100th Chelsea Flower Show—during member days at least—the Great Pavilion is the main event. The Show Gardens might as well be called Show Business and are a mere...
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A Disappearing Act: The Sigma Focus Wall-Mounted Barbecue
While I love food cooked on the barbecue, I have to confess that I'm not a fan of giant industrial strength barbecues. For one, they hog too much real estate. And, my patio is too small to house its...
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DIY: Alliums, Three Ways
Brightly colored and shaped like something from another planet, these cousins to chives and garlic and onions are cropping up in gardens throughout New York at this time of year. But more than being...
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Design Sleuth: The Red Bench
We spotted this red bench in the gift shop at Stockholm's Rosendals Trädgård via Elle Interior, but it would be equally at home in your garden (or ours), especially in a shady spot that could use a...
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Show Us Your Garden for a Chance to Win a Casamidy Lantern
When we were dreaming up prizes for our very first Gardenista Considered Design Awards, we thought immediately of the Symi lantern from Casamidy. Why? Its shape is vaguely houselike (it even has a...
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The Latest Trends in English Gardening, Brought to You from the Chelsea...
The parks of London are waist deep in cow parsley right now. Swathes of long grass and wildflowers, where once there was only very short turf, reflect a wider trend. It is no surprise to find the...
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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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Steal This Look: A Backyard Barbecue for Memorial Day Weekend
How do you celebrate Memorial Day? This weekend, we'll invite friends over, break out the grill for the season's inaugural backyard barbecue, and serve plenty of chilled lemonade (and white wine). To...
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A Trip on the Wild Side: Anahuac Wildlife Refuge in Texas
To the casual tourist arriving at the visitors' center of the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge east of Houston, Texas on Galveston Bay, everything seems quite serene and natural. You might notice that...
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A Glass Decanter for Outdoor Parties
Spotted at Terrain, this stoppered glass jug exudes a certain sturdy elegance; we're not a bit afraid it won't survive a picnic. Above: A Lost River Decanter has a cork stopper and holds 25.4 ounces...
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10 Ways We've Been Preparing for Summer
Our favorite three-day weekend of the year is officially underway. For the next three months? It'll be picnics, beach parties, natural absorption of vitamin D. Here's how we're preparing for summer:...
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Los Poblanos in New Mexico
Off the beaten path in Los Ranchos (a small town near Albuquerque), Los Poblanos Historic Inn was designed by John Gaw Meem, long considered New Mexico's most important architect and now recognized...
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World's Best Barbecue Grills
My husband is so devoted to the art of grilling that even during electrical storms he used to refuse to abandon the kabob—until the time lightning struck 20 feet away, incinerating our car. Since then,...
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Out of the Closet: The Essential Minimal Wardrobe, Revisited
A month ago when I cleaned out my closet and vowed to wear only ten pieces of clothing, I had no idea my wardrobe choices were controversial. But by Day Three, people at work were looking at me...
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DIY: Easy Art Leaf Prints
One of the things I love most about being a parent? Getting to feel like a kid again as I join my children in experimenting with nature. Normally on a gorgeous spring day, the kids and I disappear into...
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5 Favorites: Backyard Play Structures
When we were little, the distance you could "fly" across the backyard after jumping from a swing was the measure of your superhero powers. It still is. I cannot even begin to calculate how many hours...
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Kids' Garden Tools from Burgon & Ball
There should be a "lovable quality about the actual tools" you use in the garden, Gertrude Jekyll believed, and it's a rule that also should apply to child-sized equipment. A tool that feels good in...
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To Lawn or Not to Lawn? With Kids, That is the Question
To lawn or not to lawn? With kids, it's a tough question. Lawns are ideal as a soft place for children to play, but they can also be visually uninteresting and a pain to mow. We love this solution from...
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A Kitchen Garden You Can Sprout on a Countertop
A tiny, compact system for growing just the right amount of herbs and sprouts on your kitchen windowsill? That's the idea behind a new Kitchen Farming line of ingeniously sized terracotta planters from...
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