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Garden Visit: The Swiss Cottage Garden, Alpine Views Included
On a recent European vacation, I spotted this petite cottage garden in Samedan, Switzerland (pop. circa 3,000), just a few towns over from the wintertime jet-set capital of St. Moritz. If there are any...
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Trending on Remodelista: Summer Cottages
Over at Remodelista, the editors started this week with a vow to wring every last moment out of summer (and we haven't seen some of them around the office since). Maybe you ran across Margot hanging...
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Current Obsessions: Valley Visits and Beyond
Here's a look at what we're loving lately: Above: Weekend snack: crème fraîche crostini with purple cabbage. Photograph courtesy of Sunday Suppers. Above: We're admiring the photos of Sydney...
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DIY: How to Clean and Care for Garden Pruners
Like most things in your garden, tools need a little loving care to keep them happy. Before you start cutting back summer's spent blooms, here are a few tips for cleaning and caring for your pruners....
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Table of Contents: Chasing Fireflies
Last week of August: Can we fit an entire summer into seven days? Watch us try. We'll be chasing fireflies, planting a sunset garden, and recycling water troughs into stylish raised garden beds....
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Landscape Architect Visit: A Historic Farm on Rhode Island, Ocean Views Included
Seventy-acre Goosewing Farm, in Little Compton, is bounded by three bodies of water: Quicksand Pond, Tunipus Pond, and the Atlantic Ocean. For Michael Vergason Landscape Architects, the challenge was...
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Best Garden Shed or Outbuilding Winner: Maggie Anthony Design
The winner of the Gardenista Considered Design Awards Best Garden Shed or Outbuilding is Maggie Anthony Design of Nashville, Tennessee. Her project was chosen as a finalist by Gardenista...
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Field Guide: Pear Trees
Pear trees come by their gnarled branches honestly. They date back to pre-historic times, and have spread across Asia, Europe, and beyond. Pear trees compete with apple trees for their prominence in...
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Garden Visit: Vita's Sunset Garden
The Cottage Garden at Sissinghurst contains no white. It faces west and is full of opulent color and rich scent: a place to sit at the end of the day, while watching the sun go down. Sissinghurst...
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Steal This Look: DIY Scandinavian Outdoor Dining Space
The last days of summer have us thinking about the ideal ad-hoc dining space. This set-up in Sweden, with a mix of inexpensive DIY tables and benches and a spare palette, has lots of good ideas to...
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7 Things You Should Do to Protect Fireflies
Compared to photographing them, catching fireflies is about the easiest thing to do. And in the summertime, spending at least one evening running around a field, mason jar in hand, should be a priority...
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Geometric Fire Pit: Do the Math
The Geometric Fire Pit, designed by architect John Paul Plauché of Houston's Plodes Studio, gets my nomination for best portable fire pit ever. A versatile piece that can also be used as a grill and,...
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Design Sleuth: The Camp Stove for Home and Wilderness
Who isn't transfixed by flames? The winner of the Best Amateur-Designed Office Space in this year's Remodelista Considered Design Awards has a fixture that intrigued readers: a wood-burning camp stove...
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DIY: How to Save Seeds for Next Year
I'm the first to remind friends that we've still got a few weeks of summer left. But in the garden, there are signs of a shift in the season as plants start to wither. Rather than yanking spent plants...
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Recipe Roundup: 10 Shrub Recipes for Summer Fruit
What to do with a bushel of nearly gone fruit? Thrifty American colonists added sugar and vinegar to make a sweet and sour syrup that would last the winter. What did they call it? Shrub. Don't worry,...
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Drink Up: PVC-Free Garden Hoses
Your seemingly innocuous garden hose may be brewing up a dangerous cocktail. Before taking another drink, consider investing in a chemical-free, drinking-water-safe option. The vast majority of garden...
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Steal This Look: Water Troughs as Raised Garden Beds
The typical rectangular raised bed is a space hog that tends to dominate a garden. The other day I ran across a stylish alternative—painted livestock water troughs. Here's how to get the same look:...
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Hardscaping 101: Pet-Proofing Your Home
Enrique had only been with us a few days when we blithely left him home alone for a couple of hours. The shredded curtain and broken windowpane that we returned to clued us in that our rescued 15-pound...
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DIY: Beach Glass Becomes Wall Art
We've all been there. Enticed by the natural beauty of pebbles, shells, and other treasures tumbled by the sea, we spend our beach vacations collecting to our hearts' content. Then we get home. Now...
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Garden Visit: Dutch Master Piet Oudolf in Yorkshire
The sheer scale of the place is difficult to grapple with. The kitchen garden alone at Scampston Hall, in Yorkshire, in the north of England, contains four acres within its brick walls. But in the end,...
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