Trending on Remodelista: Just the Basics, Kitchen Edition
We continue to be enthralled by the de-kitchening of kitchens. Over on Remodelista this week, we spied some especially appealing examples of pared-down, humble cook spaces. Plus: Giveaway: Enter to Win...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Sandeep Salter
Sandeep Salter was one of the many New Yorkers who escaped crowded city life during the COVID pandemic and decamped to the country. She wrote about that year-long experience living on a farm for...
View ArticleBermuda Buttercup: Neither Bermudan Nor a Buttercup
Bermuda buttercup is one of the best-known names for a plant that evolved nowhere near Bermuda, and that is in no way related to buttercups. But it is yellow, and it does grow in Bermuda. And...
View ArticleLandscape Design Visit: A Rejuvenated Outdoor Living Space for a Landmark...
A couple months ago, I wrote a story for Remodelista about a modernist landmark Brooklyn Heights townhouse restored by Starling Architecture. The post focused on the sophisticated midcentury-style...
View ArticleTime to Bring Them In? Top Tips for Transitioning Your Potted Plants From...
Fall is officially here—according to both the calendar and the influx of “sweater weather” clips on social media. And even though the temperature doesn’t feel autumn-like yet where I live in the Bay...
View ArticleFall Gardening 101: How to Ripen Green Tomatoes Off the Vine
Many home gardeners associate tomatoes only with summer. And after Labor Day, many move on to fall things, like apple picking and leaf peeping. But the weather is still warm and there are many green...
View Article10 Things Your Landscape Designer Wishes You Knew About Gravel (But Is Too...
My clients are often in love with gravel, or at least with the idea of gravel. But as a landscape designer, I have a love-hate relationship with the paving material. The other day I visited a clients’...
View ArticleTrending on Remodelista: Color Code
When the days get shorter, we start dreaming of brighter colors. Below, some palette inspiration courtesy of Remodelista this week. N.B.: And in Gardenista news, we launched a monthly shoppable...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Patrick Bernatz Ward
Beth Chatto’s “right plant, right place” motto? Turns out it can be applied to home design, too. Los Angeles architect Patrick Bernatz Ward is guided by the same location-first ethos, taking pains to...
View ArticleFall Flowers: 16 Annuals and Perennials That Are Not Chrysanthemums
We don’t hate chrysanthemums. Let’s just get that out of the way. There is a lot to be said for their instant, impulse-buy autumnal cheer. A pot on the stoop (with a pumpkin or two), as the clock ticks...
View ArticleSpooky and Sustainable: 10 DIY Halloween Decoration Ideas From Our Archives,...
When it comes to Halloween, we are pro-DIY, pro-using-what-you-have. We’re not going to judge you if have some plastic skeletons in your closet, but wouldn’t it be better if you simply shopped your...
View ArticleGardening 101: Red Bunny Tails
I usually think about bunnies around Easter time, but they also hop into my head in the fall, when I need a grass that will reliably perform in the garden—and I inevitably reach for red bunny tails....
View ArticleYour First Garden: What You Need to Know Before You Plant Bulbs
I’ve always known in theory that if you plant spring-flowering bulbs (such as tulips, daffodils, crocuses, and alliums) you can fill your garden with successive waves of color for three months while...
View ArticleGarden Visit: At Home with Designer Julie Weiss in Manhattan
After years of living with a shared rooftop garden in lower Manhattan, designer Julie Weiss decided to let the plants win. “I love the wild, overgrown feel,” says Weiss, who was Vanity Fair’s art...
View ArticleTrending on Remodelista: Basics With a Twist
Over on Remodelista, a focus on reimagined basics. Here are some highlights from their week covering the beautiful and useful. The Humble Seagrass Rug The Headboard-less Mattress The China Cabinet...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Tama Matsuoka Wong
We’ve been writing about Tama Matsuoka Wong for more than a decade—first in 2013 when we joined her for a foraging (and eating) adventure on her 28-acre property in Hunterdon County, NJ, then again in...
View ArticleChrysanthemum Greens: A Fragrant Leafy Vegetable
Chrysanthemum greens are not what you might think. (Unless you know.) While fall brings the instantly familiar colors of chrysanthemum flowers to windows and front stoops, gardens and public plantings,...
View ArticleGardening 101: Get to Know Native Irises
“Irises were my first love,” says horticulturalist Kelly D. Norris, the garden author and designer known for his “new naturalism” garden style. He started out managing his family’s iris farm and...
View ArticleAsk the Experts: The NYC Biodiversity Task Force on 5 Ways to Help Support...
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. “New York City has a...
View ArticleMy Autumn Chores: Finding Balance Between Nature and Order
With its beautiful light, artfully fading flowers, and subtle shifts in color as the leaves turn, autumn is a magical time of the year. It’s a season for slowing down, and appreciating this golden...
View Article10 Ideas to Borrow From Japanese-Inspired Gardens
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...
View ArticleTrending on Remodelista: In Praise of the Plain
Basic. Plain. Austere. These adjectives may not jump off the page and titillate, but when used to describe interiors, we are completely captivated. From Remodelista this week, a few simple but chic...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Emily Thompson
If Wednesday Addams were a floral designer, her arrangements would look like Emily Thompson’s: dripping, clambering, creeping, amorphous, and alive despite being very much dead. We’ve covered Emily’s...
View ArticleTepache: An Easy, Fizzy Probiotic Drink to Make at Home
When my husband developed a daily tepache habit, it was only a matter of time before I became intrigued. And then alarmed. Tepache is a fermented drink with a pineapple base, and has deep roots in...
View ArticleRequired Reading: ‘The Food Forward Garden,’ A Manual on How to Have Your...
Flipping through The Food Forward Garden, the first thing you notice isn’t the fruits and vegetables—and that’s intentional. Landscape designer Christian Douglas has been creating backyard kitchen...
View ArticleAsk the Experts: The Best Bulbs to Naturalize in Spring
The new book A Year in Bloom has a great premise: Ask some of the world’s top garden people to talk about their favorite bulbs, thus solving one of gardeners’ biggest dilemmas—which of the many, many...
View ArticleA Secret Garden—and Glass Extension—in London’s Tufnell Park
We’ve long admired the work of New York architects Messana O’Rorke. When we inquired about the glass wall extension and surrounding landscaping of their impressive project in London’s Tufnell Park, we...
View ArticleTea Time: 8 Beginner-Friendly Medicinal Plants to Grow In Your Garden
Truthfully, I drink no less than five cups of tea a day. I rotate between different blends, depending on the season and my health needs. So when I learned that my favorite organic tea company,...
View ArticleTrending on Remodelista: City-Slick Kitchens
There’s nothing suburban (or pedestrian) about this latest batch of kitchens from Remodelista this week. Have a peek. Plus: Kitchen of the Week: An Indoor/Outdoor Space for a Pair of Naturalists in...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Butter Wakefield
Let us count the many reasons we love Butter Wakefield, the Maryland-born, London-based garden designer who has won numerous prestigious awards for her exuberant projects (twice at the Chelsea Flower...
View ArticleMugwort Chips: Crisp, Savory, and Seasonal
In the waning days of fall, a weed that happens to be a wild herb is still growing with enough vigor to defy the season. Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) is a perennial that is usually leggy and...
View ArticleFall Gardening: 15 Ideas For What to Do With All Those Leaves
Many gardeners may be sick of hearing the advice to “leave the leaves.” We know it’s a good idea, but to be honest? It can be hard to figure out how. Clearly, many people don’t know what to do with all...
View ArticleBrooklyn Backyard Visit: A Fruitful Collab Between an Architect and Landscape...
A half a dozen Cor-ten steel planters filled with naturalistic plantings on Brooklyn’s Court Street inspired a homeowner to track down their creator, Verru Design, to work on her townhouse’s backyard....
View Article5 Favorites: Dark and Spooky Houseplants for Halloween and Beyond
In honor of Halloween: houseplants that show off twisty tendrils, scary leaves, and macabre colors that can lend your home a moody ambiance. Here are five favorites that celebrate the dark side....
View ArticleThe 4 Ps: What to Do in the Garden in November
Happy November! True, most tender annuals are done by now, and some tender perennials are showing signs of cold damage. But even if the more joyful aspects of gardening are past, there is still work to...
View ArticleTrending on Remodelista: Keeping Calm
PSA: Layabouts and sleep enthusiasts, rejoice! It’s time to turn back the clocks (we officially return to Standard Time at 2 AM). In honor of that extra hour of sleep we’re gaining, here are some cozy...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Corwin Green and Damon Arrington
In this week’s installment of Quick Takes, we present a pair of Brooklyn academics with a flair for garden design, Corwin Green and Damon Arrington, partners in life and business. Corwin teaches...
View ArticleBulb Season: 14 Reasons to Plant Alliums Now
We’re heading into late autumn, and that means peak bulb-planting time. As long as the soil is not frozen, you can plant for next spring and summer. Alliums are one of the most rewarding, and least...
View ArticleElection Day: V Is for Voting
It’s Election Day, and we’re pausing our regularly scheduled programming to go to the polls. Please join us: You can find your polling location and hours (or check on the status of your ballot) at...
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