All week, we’re resurfacing the most popular posts published on Gardenista this year. If this story is new to you, enjoy! And if you’ve already read this before, we hope you’ll like it just as much as the first time around. [This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to […]
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Greatest Hits 2024: Experts’ Favorite Native Plant Combinations
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Greatest Hits 2024: A Garden from Scratch—How to Start Designing Your Outdoor Space
All week, we’re resurfacing the most popular posts published on Gardenista this year. If this story is new to you, enjoy! And if you’ve already read this before, we hope you’ll like it just as much as the first time around. ‘But what shall I do with the garden?’ As an avid gardener with friends […]
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Greatest Hits 2024: Move Over, Monstera—The Year’s New Houseplant Trends
All week, we’re resurfacing the most popular posts published on Gardenista this year. If this story is new to you, enjoy! And if you’ve already read this before, we hope you’ll like it just as much as the first time around. Houseplants have been having something of a renaissance in the last decade–and not just […]
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The Editors’ Cut: 15 Accessories for the Doting Houseplant Parent
Welcome to The Editors’ Cut, our recently launched column dedicated to all things beautiful and useful for the garden, patio, porch, and terrace. Each month, we’ll do an obsessive dive into the latest and best products for outdoor living and surface our finds here—from heirloom-quality soon-to-be classics to of-the-moment must-haves. In this installment, we’ve unearthed tools […]
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Quick Takes Special Edition: The Best Gardening Hacks, According to Our Experts
If you’re not a paid subscriber to Gardenista and Remodelista, you’re in for a treat this month. Every Sunday until the end of the year, we’re opening up Quick Takes content—normally reserved for subscribers—to everyone. (You can learn more about Quick Takes here. And sign up for a paid subscription by clicking “Join” in the upper […]
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Cheers! Two New Cocktails for New Year’s Eve
While classic cocktails are timeless for a reason (they’re good!), a fresh year inspires a fresh approach, and newly-paired flavors on the tongue. Here are two festive New Year’s Eve cocktails to welcome a new year—as well as every challenge, promise, and heartache that it may bring. Tasting the season in a glass is a […]
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Through the Bar and Up the Stairs: A Medicinal Rooftop Garden Above Honey’s in Brooklyn
A mead refresher: This alcoholic bracer made from fermented honey has ancient cultural associations. Paired in the fermenting process with any combination of botanicals, unusual fruit and wild yeasts, modern mead can be sparkling, frizzante, dry, sweet, or a star performer in cocktails. Mead in its many forms can be sampled at Honey’s Bar, the […]
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Happy New Year from Gardenista
Happy New Year, and thanks for joining us for another year of design and garden inspiration. We’re grateful to every subscriber, commenter, longtime reader, and new follower. As we head into 2025, wishing you and yours a home filled with peace and small joys. — The Remodelista and Gardenista Team
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Object of Desire: Alitex Victorian Greenhouses
If you are lucky enough to have some surplus space in your garden or on your property, the idea of adding a greenhouse has likely crossed your mind. And if you are familiar with Alitex‘s collection of extremely charming Victorian-inspired greenhouses, the idea has probably crossed your mind multiple times. Founded in 1952, U.K.-based Alitex […]
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Lawn Begone: 8 Ideas for Front Garden Landscapes
They say you are what you wear. This is also true of your house. Your front yard makes a strong first impression. Here are seven of our favorite landscaping ideas to dress up the place: 1. Flower Garden My next-door neighbor in Mill Valley, California tore up the grass first thing when she moved into […]
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Trending on Remodelista: Personality-Filled Homes
Just like us, Remodelista last week republished the most popular posts of 2024. And just like us, its readers seem to gravitate most toward stories that showcase the real, lived-in homes of regular people (as opposed to professionally decorated projects). Plus: Editors’ Picks: 7 Little Treats for Keeping Warm in Winter Kitchen of the Week: […]
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Quick Takes With: Junior Schouten
We are such unabashed fans of Brooklyn Grange and what they do: promoting, designing, building, and maintaining sustainable urban green spaces. If you want to visit their projects, you’ll likely have to look up, though—their forte is creating thriving rooftop gardens. Founded in 2010, the firm has since grown in both influence (they’re responsible for […]
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Candied Citrus Peel: A Fun and Delicious Winter Project
A recent search for ready-made candied citrus peel to include in a recipe for Stollen, a sweet German Christmas loaf, ended in frustration. All I could find were syrupy strips of candied orange peel at Sahadi’s, a legendary Brooklyn grocery whose year-end menu of candied peels used to include hefty slices of translucent citron. The […]
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Ask the Experts: Landscape Designers Share 14 Predictions and Trends for 2025
Gardens don’t follow trends quite like fashion does, but styles, favored plants, and maintenance routines are always evolving. So, we asked eight garden pros to share their predictions for the year ahead. Themes of ecologically-minded gardening dominated their forecasts, but we also heard about garden tourism, mash-up aesthetics, and the return of the romantic landscape. […]
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5 Clues Winter Reveals About Your Garden
January generally doesn’t top anyone’s list of ideal times to take a stroll around the garden—but it should. Beyond the quiet stillness and simple grace of winter, there is information to be learned from a sleeping garden. Here’s what the dormant season—and all the elements it can bring (snow storms, frigid temps, high winds)—can you […]
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Garden Visit: San Francisco’s Historic Conservatory of Flowers
As soon as it gets cold and wintry outside, I act like a moth to a flame and instantly gravitate to greenhouses, garden stores, and humid conservatories. One historic indoor spot that I have been visiting since childhood, especially in winter, is the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Established in 1879, […]
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11 Ways to Keep Houseplants Happy this Winter
Whether your potted plants live indoors year round or have sought temporary shelter from freezing temperatures, they may be looking a little sad these days. Are you doing something wrong? Or have they just gone dormant? We asked horticulturalist David Clark (who is coddling his own houseplants through the winter in upstate New York) for advice about […]
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Current Obsessions: LA on Our Minds
This week we are reminded that home is not just a structure but a collection of memories, a connection to what we love, a safe space to retreat to, where years of planning and life savings take the tangible form of walls and floors and rooms. Our hearts are in California and with all who […]
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Quick Takes With: Jennifer Jewell
With a floral designer and a wildlife biologist as parents, is it any wonder that Jennifer Jewell would grow up to be an avid gardener? She’s the creator, executive producer, and primary host of Cultivating Place, an award-winning public radio program and podcast that features weekly conversations with growers, horticulturalists, and other plant obsessives to […]
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Pistachio Fir Cookies: A Green Gluten-Free Treat
One winter, around the time I was tinkering again with recipes for fragrant fir needles, I received a gift of beautifully packaged pistachios. The pistachios were tiny and perfect, grown in Afghanistan. The nut trees—Pistacia vera—are native to the Middle East, Asia Minor, and Central Asia, and they are related to mastic, sumac, and cashews. […]
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Freshen Up With Luxe, Eco-Friendly Florals From Diane James Home
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Required Reading: ‘Your Natural Garden’ by Kelly D. Norris
After horticulturalist Kelly D. Norris finished writing New Naturalism (the award-winning 2021 book now in its sixth printing), he didn’t have to think hard about what his next book project would be. Norris knew that he needed to follow it up with a how-to book of sorts. “It was clear that the conversation wasn’t over,” […]
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Gardening 101: Bluestar
Blue is a magical and rare color in nature. Yes, the sky is blue, and so are some seas (under the right conditions), but not many flowers are blue. In centuries past, painters made the color from crushing the semi-precious stone lapis lazuli and reserved it for only the most important works. Is it any […]
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Landscape Architect Visit: Scott Lewis Turns A Small SF Backyard Into an Urban Oasis
“We had this idea of making a green cube in the back of the garden,” says San Francisco-based landscape architect Scott Lewis. And as you can see, it was an excellent idea. In a small city backyard, Lewis of Scott Lewis Landscape Architecture created a spacious feeling in a space that’s barely 25 feet wide […]
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A Room of One’s Own: 15 Inspired Garage Conversions
I’ve been noticing quite a few garage renovations on my daily get-me-away-from-my-kids-before-I-implode walks. Makes sense. As remote learning and working continue to be the norm for many families, homeowners are increasingly desperate to carve out more private space. An unused garage, with the help of a contractor and architect, can become a stand-alone yoga room, […]
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Current Obsessions: Peace and Quiet
For your weekend to-do list: send seeds to LA, read the book on plants that made multiple best-of-year lists, DIY a lamp from a found object, and more. Help re-seed Altadena. (And if you’re in NYC, drop off seeds here or here.) New product drop: “My friend at Waltzing Matilija concocted a new slow-release fertilizer […]
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Quick Takes With: Kelly D. Norris
Some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Kelly D. Norris was born “with a trowel in his hands,” wrote Gardenista contributor Melissa Ozawa, in her story about his “New Naturalism” gardening philosophy. This may sound like hyperbole, but it isn’t so far from the truth: He planted his first garden at […]
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Yuzu Syrup: It’s a Tea, a Marmalade, and a Tonic
Floral and bright, the scent of yuzu, a small citrus fruit with aromatic skin and little juice, is unique. If you could inhale the uplifting aroma released by an opened jar of the yuzu syrup that I make every winter, you might agree that preserving this seasonal citrus to enjoy through the year is a […]
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10 Easy Pieces: Wind Chimes
Years back, I learned about the lesser-known sonambient work of Italian-American designer Harry Bertoia. Bertoia, celebrated for his now-iconic wire mesh seating, created a series of sound sculptures in the 1960s with sonic and kinetic properties. Discovering his sound art led me to reconsider the aural pleasantries of the wind chime. I’ve found that I […]
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How to Find the Best Online Gardening Classes to Suit Your Needs
The depths of winter are a time for gardeners to take a much-deserved break, but it is also a great opportunity to sharpen your skills and explore new ideas—or just daydream about garden possibilities. Today there is a profusion of online gardening classes, webinars, and lectures, ranging from beginner lessons to advanced niche topics. But […]
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Ground Rules: 3 Smart Gardening Chores to Do in the Winter
This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to toxic-free, nature-based gardening, on how you can be more sustainable in your landscapes at home. Not far from the Brooklyn waterfront, the Naval Cemetery Landscape (NCL) is both a memorial to the dead and a haven for the living, teeming with […]
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‘Night Gardens’: Floral Dreams by Artist Mary Mattingly
Anyone traveling into New York City from one of the nearby airports can see that here is a natural wetland—one that happens to support millions of people. Rivers and waterways define the lay of the land, feeding into the very close Atlantic Ocean. So photographer Mary Mattingly’s Night Gardens (now showing at Robert Mann Gallery […]
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Current Obsessions: Quiet, Please
Here’s to a restorative weekend! Below, things that have tickled us, moved us, distracted us from the news. Marie writes in: A “corpse flower” has started blooming in Brooklyn! Head to the BBG this weekend to see the rare occurrence and smell its distinctive scent. Never thought string lights could stir our soul, but here […]
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Quick Takes With: Jarema Osofsky and Adam Bertulli
Seven years ago, artist and horticulturalist Jarema Osofsky started growing and selling houseplants out of her Brooklyn apartment by appointment only. The secret shop, which she likened to a “plant speakeasy,” took off, garnering attention from style bibles like T Magazine and Elle Decor. Today she and partner Adam Bertulli have expanded into garden design […]
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Healthy Candy: Dried Naked Citrus Is an Addictive, Sugar-Free Snack
What happens when you are gifted 10 pounds of tiny, sweet, Kishu mandarins? After the unboxing excitement subsides, the culinary wheels begin turning. Slightly larger than walnuts, these petite mandarins arrived at my door this winter. I was already in citrus mode, soaking long strips of pomelo peel in syrup before drying them gently in […]
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Garden Visit: A Front-Yard Food Forest in Alameda, CA
We’ve often swooned for Bay Area landscape design/build firm Pine House Edible Gardens‘ lush and productive landscapes, but this project caught our eye because it is particularly relatable: a postage stamp-sized yard in front of a classic bungalow. The garden proves that even the smallest front yard can be a productive food forest and a […]
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‘Not Really a Garden at All’: Artist John-Paul Philippe’s Lightly Edited Landscape in Connecticut
The gardeners featured in Pastoral Gardens, a weighty new compendium that has been self-published by photographer Andrew Montgomery and garden editor Clare Foster, are mainly British. But when the pair crossed the Atlantic to document several East Coast landscapes designed by European superstars, they also took in White Hollow, a five-acre property in Litchfield County, […]
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Small Gardens, Big Ideas: Lessons From This Year’s Society of Garden Designers Awards Finalists
Small gardens need clever and innovative design, from judicious lighting to plant-led solutions for making spaces more cohesive and, in town and cities, more private. Here are a few of our favorite ideas to steal from the compact gardens nominated for prizes at the annual Society of Garden Designers Awards, held in London in early […]
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The Editors’ Cut: 13 Ways to Add a Jolt of Red to Your Outdoor Space
Welcome to The Editors’ Cut, our monthly column dedicated to all things beautiful and useful for the garden, patio, porch, and terrace. In this installment: We’re rethinking red. There’s no denying that a pop of crimson can energize a room (see Unexpected Red Theory), and this is true for your outdoor space as well, particularly […]
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Current Obsessions: Color Therapy
Got any weekend plans? You do now. Below, happenings for Cy Twombly fans, Brooklyn birders, Lunar New Year celebrants, and more. And for those who don’t want to stray too far from the sofa, ideas for adding a little mid-winter color to your home. You may already have a bird house and an insect hotel in […]
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