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,...
View ArticleObject 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...
View ArticleLawn 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...
View ArticleTrending 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...
View ArticleQuick 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...
View ArticleCandied 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...
View ArticleAsk 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...
View Article5 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...
View ArticleGarden 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...
View Article11 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...
View ArticleCurrent 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...
View ArticleQuick 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...
View ArticlePistachio 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...
View ArticleRequired 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....
View ArticleGardening 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...
View ArticleLandscape Architect Visit: Scott Lewis Turns A Small SF Backyard Into an...
“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,...
View ArticleA 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,...
View ArticleCurrent 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,...
View ArticleQuick 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”...
View ArticleYuzu 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...
View Article10 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...
View ArticleHow 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....
View ArticleGround 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...
View Article‘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...
View ArticleCurrent 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...
View ArticleQuick 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...
View ArticleHealthy 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...
View ArticleGarden 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...
View Article‘Not Really a Garden at All’: Artist John-Paul Philippe’s Lightly Edited...
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...
View ArticleSmall Gardens, Big Ideas: Lessons From This Year’s Society of Garden...
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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleCurrent 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...
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