Landscape Designer Visit: Spirals in Stone on the Cornish Coast by Mary Reynolds
Take a remote, untamed place on the Cornish coast and select the perfect person to design a garden there…someone who cherishes wildness in the land, is maybe even a little wild herself. Such is the...
View ArticleGardenista Giveaway: Pre-Order Our New Book to Win
In case you missed it, we’re celebrating the upcoming release of our new book by giving away a pair of dip-dye garden tools featured in the book’s DIY chapter. (Pre-order the book and fill out the form...
View Article10 Best Garden Design Trends for Fall 2016
After a summer spent traveling, we’re back with a report on the best trends in garden design—indoors and out—for fall 2016. From stylish Parisian compost bins to dining rooms wallpapered with climbing...
View ArticleLandscape Architect Visit: A Modern Makeover for a San Francisco Grande Dame,...
Even before a renovation, a San Francisco property with a Dutch Colonial Revival-style house built in 1912 had significant assets: 5,000 square feet of garden space on a double-wide lot, and a 25-foot...
View ArticleShopper’s Diary: Garden Objects in Auckland
We’ve happy to see one of our favorite online shops, New Zealand-based Garden Objects, expand into a new bricks-and-mortar store in Kohimarama, Auckland, (where co-owners Lisa Davis and Jared Lockhart...
View ArticleOutbuilding of the Week: A Woodshed Transformed, by StudioErrante in Italy
Behind a house in a village in northwestern Italy, designers Sarah Becchio and Paolo Borghino of StudioErrante Architetture discovered a tiny, ramshackle shed with a useful purpose and a long history....
View ArticleSteal This Look: Built-In Brick Seating for a Tuscan Terrace
When Heidi and Christopher Mueller purchased Lupaia, a 17th-century estate-turned-hotel in Italy’s Tuscany region, one of their goals was to tone down the palette, which was “the opposite of calming,”...
View ArticleArchitect Visit: An Irish Stone Stable in a Dramatic Landscape
For nearly 40 years, a retired couple from Dublin enjoyed a second home on the west coast of Ireland, about an hour’s drive from Galway. As visiting children and grandchildren became a constant...
View ArticleWeeds You Can Eat: Raw Purslane, 10 Ways
“I have made a satisfactory dinner, satisfactory on several accounts, simply off a dish of purslane (Portulaca oleracea) which I gathered in my cornfield, boiled and salted. I give the Latin on account...
View ArticleTrending on Remodelista: New Design Ideas to Steal
What’s new for fall? What are the best design trends on the Remodelista editors’ radar? Read on: Above: Justine discovers Sustainable Style (and Food) at Native Restaurant in Antwerp. Above: So hard to...
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: Nature and Nurture
Is it already fall? While lamenting the end of summer, we couldn’t be more excited about this season holds, including the launch of our new book. Read on to learn how we’re celebrating and what we’ve...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Best Succulents
Are you sick of hearing that succulents are “easy” when the only thing yours do reliably is die? The solution is to get the right succulent for the job. For instance. If you are trying to grow...
View ArticleGardening 101: Japanese Anemones
Japanese Anemone, A. hupehensis: “Daughter of the Wind” There’s a nondescript, partially shaded corner of my garden which is frankly rather dull until finally it comes into its own in September. That’s...
View ArticleAnthuriums: Rethinking a Hotel Lobby Flower
When the wife of shipping magnate Charles Morgan suddenly died in the summer of 1885 and left her heirs 2,000 exotic plants to sell at auction in New York City, her flaming red anthuriums drew bids of...
View ArticleArchitects’ 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 some of Gardenista’s favorite architects and landscape designers, many of whom...
View ArticleHardscaping 101: Brick Patios
We learned this young: 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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