11 Iconic Mid-century Outdoor Chair Designs You Should Know
Design classics aren’t just for interiors. In fact, a crop of notable mid-century designers made dining and lounge chairs for the outdoors (and/or their designs were later reworked for outdoor use)....
View ArticleThe Ultimate Secret Garden: A New Era for Benton End
About 40 years ago, the gate was closed on a garden in Suffolk that had been a magnet for a certain kind of person: if you were an artist, poet, flaneur, composer, or freewheeling gardener or cook, you...
View Article5 Favorites: Flowers to Sow in June for an Autumn Bloom
Even though Memorial Day is behind us, we’re still technically in the midst of spring (summer solstice falls on June 20 this year). This means you still have time to direct-sow seeds in your garden to...
View ArticleGardening 101: How to Grow Bistort, a Buckwheat Relative
In the early summer garden of Tinder Hearth, the bakery and restaurant set amid green fields outside Brooksville, Maine, I waited recently with my husband for two very good pizzas to arrive (when they...
View ArticlePsst…What We Loved in May
Welcome to Psst, where each month the Remodelista and Gardenista editors share an inside look at what we’ve been reading, watching, coveting, pinning, visiting, and otherwise loving lately. Without...
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: Weekend Lull
Ahead this weekend: a St. Tropez exhibit, meandering paths through spring’s greenery, and a smart hack for a wheel-away TV. Read on: Annie’s in the market for an outdoor table and came across this...
View ArticleBeyond ‘Thriller, Filler, Spiller’: 5 Creative Summer Outdoor Planter Ideas...
If you’re as uninspired as we are by the pre-planted container gardens for sale at many nurseries and big-box garden centers, you may want to get your hands on a copy of Terrain: The Container Garden...
View ArticleThe Editors’ Cut: 9 Finds for a Portable Summer
Welcome to The Editors’ Cut, our monthly column dedicated to beautiful and useful finds for all over the house. In this installment: In summer, we’re big proponents of keeping a beach chair in the...
View ArticleAsk the Experts: What Are Your Moments of Joy in the Garden?
This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to ecological gardening, on how you can be more sustainable in your landscapes at home. There are so many benefits to...
View ArticleThe Secret Edible Garden: How to Integrate Fruits and Veggies into Your...
British garden designer Harry Holding first caught our eye in 2023 when he debuted his School Food Matters Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show, which won the People’s Choice award. This year, Holding is...
View ArticleLandscape Architect Visit: A Dreamy Property in the Suburbs that “Invites the...
Unlike so many homeowners who aim to tame and tamp down the wilderness around them, landscape architect Michelle Crowley’s clients wanted to welcome it in. Originally, their property in Concord, MA,...
View ArticleGarden Therapy: 13 Gardening Tasks to Quiet the Mind
“I heard the news today, oh boy.” Where is John Lennon when we need him? I watched television recently. I don’t own a television. It was a wall-spanning flatscreen mounted in a waiting room, where...
View ArticleExtra, Extra: Two Exclusive Discounts from Brands We Love, May Edition
Yes, there are a slew of Memorial Day sales going on this weekend, with discounts that are tough to beat. Unless, of course, you use these two codes from two R/G favorites, the Quiet Botanist and...
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: Long, Long Weekend
For your unofficial-start-of-summer perusing pleasure: Here are 19 things we’ve bookmarked lately: Can every storefront look like this, please? The Gardener Store in Berkeley just unpacked a bunch of...
View ArticleSummer Is Served: 23 of the Best Memorial Day Sales Going On Now
We can hardly believe it, but Memorial Day is here, and with it a slew of unbeatable sales. If you’ve been waiting—as we have—to freshen up the bedroom or treat yourself to a truly serene outdoor space...
View ArticleGardens Are For People (And Bats): A Memorable Chelsea Flower Show Garden
At the Chelsea Flower Show a few years ago, the top prize went to an installation called “A Rewilding Britain Landscape.” The word “landscape” was telling: judges were impressed with the meticulous...
View ArticleA Steep Woodland Garden in San Francisco Reimagined by Talc Studio
Before beginning work on a steep site above San Francisco’s Glen Park, Anastasia Sonkin and Taylor Palmer of Talc Studio encountered a space that felt closer to a neglected woodland than a city garden....
View ArticleThe Beauty of Imperfection: A Favorite Garden at this Year’s Chelsea Flower Show
There’s a lot to be distracted by at the Chelsea Flower Show. From driftwood gorillas to the unveiling of this year’s rose from David Austin, it can be difficult to fully digest all the show gardens...
View ArticleGarden Visit: Jefferson Market Garden in Greenwich Village
Nestled at the foot of a Victorian-Gothic confection designed by Frederick Clarke Withers and enclosed by an ornate wrought iron fence dedicated by Brooke Astor, the Jefferson Market Garden appears to...
View Article“This Beauty Will Cost Us Nothing”: The Flowering of Kettle’s Yard
I recently went on a magazine assignment covering a British landowner whose large, private walled garden provided flowers for the local inn, which he also owned. Having heard all about the virtues of...
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