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...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Sally Kohn
You’ve probably seen Sally Kohn on the news—through her work as a political commentator, community organizer, writer, and communications strategist, that is. Or, perhaps, maybe, you’ve seen her work...
View ArticleCherimoya Season: A Granita Recipe for the Ice Cream of Fruits
On the East Coast, winter gardens and growing spaces are asleep, locked in cold, and bleakly grey, with bare-branched brown relief. Botanical life has been halted by frost. The only local fare around...
View ArticlePlant-O-Rama 2025: 7 Big (And Small) Ideas to Steal From Metro Hort’s Annual...
Last Tuesday morning, hundreds of horticultural professionals gathered at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for the 29th annual Plant-O-Rama, a symposium, trade show, and career fair hosted by Metro Hort...
View ArticleGardening 101: Lepechinia
Pitcher Sage, Lepechinia When I first learned about these plants, I thought they were simply unfamiliar salvias, and as a true salvia fan I felt a wee bit remiss. Turns out, salvias and lepechinias are...
View ArticleThe Language of Flowers: Sending the Right Message With Your Valentine’s Day...
The default Valentine’s gift most people reach for is a clutch of blooms. And while that might seem a bit unoriginal, you can elevate it to new levels with a bouquet that holds a secret message. Turns...
View Article10 Great Valentine’s Day Gifts for the Gardener
For the gardener, Valentine’s Day is more about fine tools and botanicals than jewelry and chocolate. We’ve gathered a selection of our favorite gardening-themed and garden-adjacent gift ideas to...
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: Apricity
Apricity is defined by Merriam Webster as “the warmth of the sun in winter.” We hope you’re able to experience it this weekend—even if it’s just a sliver, for just a minute. Below, some recommendations...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Priscilla Woolworth
If you find yourself perusing Priscilla Woolworth’s Instagram account, chances are very, very good that you’ll stumble upon something that will make your inner child squeal with delight. It’s peppered...
View ArticleGuavas: Wildly Aromatic—And Perfect for Dessert
If you live where guavas grow, you are a lucky, lucky person. Also lucky, in a time of global (for now?) trade, is the fruit shopper’s proximity to guavas farmed south of the border, as well as...
View ArticleRethinking Native Gardens: Beyond Wildflower Meadows
My cheeks still flush just thinking about it. I was touring one of those big, fancy British gardens you see on TV, staring at a bed covered in America’s native mayapple, and the first thing out of my...
View ArticleSave Elizabeth Street Garden: Awaiting the Fate of the Lower East Side’s Most...
It’s a crucial moment in the fight to save Elizabeth Street Garden. A hearing for the appeal against a decision to allow the city to evict and close the garden was heard last week, and the jury is...
View ArticleGarden Visit: Colm Joseph’s SGD Award-Winning Walled Garden
The Society of Garden Designers, a professional association founded in 1981 for garden designers in the U.K., has been handing out awards to gardeners for the past twelve 12 years. They presented their...
View Article5 Favorites: Heart-shaped Plants
Sure, you can be predictable and buy flowers or chocolates for Valentine’s Day, but there are better, more enduring, more sustainable options out there. This year, give your significant other a small...
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: Love Letters
Happy Valentine’s Day, a little bit late—though we plan to keep it going all weekend and beyond. Ahead, some good news, goings-on, and inspiration that crossed our screens this week. We’re all into...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Ethan Kauffman
Since the launch of Quick Takes last year, we’ve noted quite a few of our featured experts have lamented the ubiquity of wildflower meadows. Not that there’s anything wrong with them, they say, but...
View ArticleCitrus Peels: How to Waste Nothing and Taste Everything
This winter, while transforming an unexpected windfall of tiny Kishu mandarins into dried, marmalade-rich snacks, I generated an impressive mountain of citrus peels. It seemed criminal to consign these...
View ArticleBefore & After: Removing a Pool to Unlock a Garden’s Potential
When Molly Sedlacek, the principal designer and founder of landscape design firm ORCA initially toured her clients’ Long Beach property, the Cliff May house had been lovingly renovated, but there...
View ArticleAsk the Experts: 5 Actionable Tips for a Fire-wise Landscape
When fires ripped through Los Angeles in January, killing at least 29 people and destroying more than 12,000 homes, some trees remained relatively unscathed in the affected areas. Others, like...
View ArticleAll About Invasives: How to Identify Them and What to Do to Help Curb Their...
This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to toxic-free, ecological gardening, on how you can be more sustainable in your landscapes at home. Step outside for a nature...
View ArticleWhat to Do with the Slope in Your Garden? 6 Attractive Solutions
The degree of difficulty indisputably rises when you’re gardening on a slope (pardon the word play here). There are ways, fortunately, to deal with uneven landscapes that don’t involve just leaving it...
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: Dreaming of Spring
Do you follow Good News Movement on Instagram? (It’s worth a look, if you need a little levity.) In that spirit, here’s this week’s Good News Roundup, Design Edition: sweet handmade lights! Free...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Rozae Nichols
Gardeners in general are not particularly fashion-forward. We may think we’re hip enough with our uniforms of linen button-downs and worn-in jeans and Blundstone boots, but can these outfits go from...
View Article17 Favorites: Shrubs With White Flowers
It’s good to dream about flowers to come. Breathe in to a count of four, exhale to a count of five, six…17 white-flowering shrubs. Repeat. Gardeners have an advantage when it comes to managing the...
View ArticleRequired Reading: Our Favorite Garden Newsletters
We are living in a golden age of newsletters. Thanks to a proliferation of publishing platforms, putting out a newsletter is easier than ever—and gardeners have heeded the call. Today everyone from the...
View ArticleDear Reader: We Want to Hear From You! (Plus, a Giveaway)
Calling all Remodelista and Gardenista readers far and wide: Have a column you want to see more of? A suggestion for our newsletters? Something else you want us to know? We’d love to hear from you....
View ArticleBetter Basics: Buckets and Watering Cans by Hachiman of Japan
If you had told us a plastic pail was about to steal our hearts, we never would have believed you. We first spotted the object in question en masse in the Chilewich booth at Shoppe Object’s recent...
View ArticleGardening 101: Mahonia ‘Soft Caress’
Mahonia eurybracteata ‘Soft Caress’ This year I promised myself that I would incorporate more plants that can multitask and require less work and stress. One such plant that I have added to my...
View ArticleBefore & After: A Two-Faced Victorian Garden With a Secret
Seen from the street, a gingerbread Victorian cottage near Melbourne, Australia hides its secret: a streamlined rear extension with a sleekly modern silhouette. The challenge for landscape architect...
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: Bright Spot
Happy weekend, dear reader! Of note today: a new Paris design salon, a floral tour, a basket-weaving workshop, and more. P.S. Please write back! Fill out our survey to send feedback to our editors and...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Sanne Hop
Sanne Hop is in “the busting out phase of her life,” Margot wrote when we toured Sanne’s live-work atelier in Amsterdam last month. Sanne’s shared her day-to-day creative life with thousands of...
View ArticleBitter Melon: Like a Cucumber With Attitude
Bitter melons may resemble cucumbers and may be called melons, but they are neither. Certainly, these long green fruits are bitter. Despite that, one bite soon leads to another: I find myself chewing a...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Outdoor Saunas
I’ve long held the misconception that an excess of outdoor space was a requirement for a personal sauna. Then while visiting a friend’s condo, I was amazed to find a cedar sauna wedged among the...
View ArticleGarden Visit: Le Jardin Plume, a Modern Impressionist Masterpiece in Normandy
For anyone hankering after European formality—only a touch, we’re not talking Versailles—Le Jardin Plume in Upper Normandy is just the ticket. Influenced by more recent movements involving perennials...
View ArticleAsk the Expert: Photographer James Ingram on How to Shoot Gardens Like a Pro
Jason Ingram shoots some of the world’s most beautiful gardens, including those belonging to King Charles III at his private residence, Highgrove near Tetbury in the Cotswolds. He works for garden...
View ArticleThe Editors’ Cut: 12 Next-Level Tool Upgrades for the Garden
Welcome to The Editors’ Cut, our monthly newsletter dedicated to all things beautiful and useful for the garden, patio, porch, and terrace. Raring to get your hands dirty and start planting? We are,...
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: New Views
On our radar: A spring equinox celebration at Lotusland, Merci’s new shop in Paris, and more. Also, March is Sleep Awareness Month, so may we recommend a good nap? Read on: Gardenista friend and...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Judy Kameon
“I founded Elysian Landscapes in 1996 with a truck and a shovel, spending as much time in the field as at the drafting table,” says Judy Kameon, a former judge for Gardenista’s Considered Design...
View ArticleShatta: A Taste of the Eastern Mediterranean
Shatta is a vivid, chile-hot condiment—a fermented hot sauce—rooted in the Eastern Mediterranean: Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt. It can be either red or green, and in its simplest iteration...
View ArticleGardening 101: Flowering Currant
Flowering currant is a classic example of a serviceable American plant that, when transported to different continents, takes on a personality that is unrecognizable. In the UK, Ribes sanguineum has an...
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