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Table of Contents: Lessons from Japan
Who could use some Zen right now? This week, we channel Kyoto, where they invented gardens to be stress-busting paths towards enlightenment. With pebble gravel underfoot, we'll contemplate a few tenets...
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Designer Visit: A Mad Man's $800K Hollywood Hideaway
After putting his 580-square-foot Hollywood hideaway on the market for $808,000 recently, Mad Men actor Vincent Kartheiser has sold the mini-compound (courtyard garden included) that LA designer Funn...
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Small Space DIY: Kokedama Planters
Everyone loves a self-sufficient houseplant. And a houseplant that doesn't require a planter? Even better. In the tradition of Japanese kokedama—which uses moss to retain moisture instead of a pot—here...
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Field Guide: Persimmons
Persimmon (Diospyros): "Better Bletted" A persimmon tree has all the visual requirements of autumn: the leaves turn red before they drop off to reveal a network of black branches festooned with bright...
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Tools of the Trade: Japanese Garden Tools
The tool kit of Japanese master gardeners is the object of envy. Luckily for amateurs, beautifully made and durable Japanese garden tools are within easy reach. Here's a collection of our favorites....
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Ask the Expert: 7 Tips for Making a Moss Checkerboard
In 1939, Japanese designer Mirei Shigemori was the bad boy of Zen gardens. His use of Western geometry in an ancient temple outraged the public, but it was his l'enfant terrible attitude that gave him...
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10 Easy Pieces: Noguchi Style Sculpture and Rocks
No offense to gnomes or pagodas, but for something more profound in your garden, consider an abstract sculpture in the style of Isamu Noguchi. The midcentury artist, perhaps most famous for designing...
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Shopper's Diary: Jessica Wickham and the Art of Woodworking
Jessica Wickham is a scavenger. Dedicated to sustainable, artisanal use of natural resources, the upstate NY-based woodworker and furniture designer has been retrieving “dead and down” logs from Hudson...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Japan
It's no coincidence if Japanese gardens remind you of those scene-in-a-shoebox dioramas you made in grade school. A Japanese garden is a miniature world full of abstract shapes—rocks, gravel, and...
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Zen and the Art of Bathing: 12 Serene Soaking Tubs
Sitting in a hot bath with a forest view and a light breeze is pretty close to our idea of heaven, and we have the soaking tub to thank for it. We've collected 12 of our favorite Japanese-inspired...
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Gardening 101: Sea Kelp for Healthy Houseplants
Sea kelp is a superfood for humans and plants too. It's packed with 70 micronutrients and among them is cytokinin, a growth hormone that promotes healthy roots. As a gardener with an indoor living...
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Hardscaping 101: Outdoor Wall Lights
Wall-mounted outdoor fixtures are the chameleons of landscape lighting. They can be used virtually anywhere in your garden that offers a flat vertical surface. N.B.: This is the fourth in our series...
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DIY: No-Fuss Bonsai for Beginners
While there is no such thing as an effortless bonsai, we are making progress. The rules have changed since bonsai revolutionary Kenji Koyahashi invented keshiki bonsai. Tokyo-based Koyahashi, who...
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Lit Up: Readers' Spooky Halloween Curb Appeal
Move over, Martha. Gardenista readers know how to decorate for Halloween. We asked—you answered. Thanks for sending us photos of your Halloween Pumpkins. After sifting through scores of pictures (and...
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Ask the Expert: Bonsai Basics with Eric Schrader
Tiny, tortured bonsai trees, wise beyond their years, fascinate me. What separates them from their shopping mall cousins—shelves of identical plants, each with a tiny clay Confucius at its roots? To...
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Outbuilding of the Week: A Teahouse Shaped Like a Hat
There is something intentionally quirky about a tiny hat-shaped teahouse in a backyard in Ostrava, a Czech city near the Polish border. Built to accommodate three for tea, the steep-roofed structure...
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Garden-to-Table: Spiced Squash for Two
The funny thing about growing your own produce is that suddenly the October-November obsession with pumpkins and squash makes sense. North America is overflowing with them. How best to eat squash?...
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DIY: A Desktop Zen Garden
Sometimes working in a creative field can feel like living in a Tom Cruise spy film. Like when you open an email from your editor inquiring if you might be willing to create a desktop Zen garden of the...
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Trending on Remodelista: Right Now in Japan
We've been students of Japanese design all week, and so have the Remodelista editors. From their Lessons of Japan, we admired a Zen makeover of an LA bungalow, met a kitchen designer who says "smart...
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Current Obsessions: Supper Time
Take a look at what's on our radar this week: Above: The folks at Sunday Suppers make salt roasted vegetables look so easy. Currently Craving: Autumn body oil from Marble & Milkweed. Above: How...
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