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A Gothic Garden Visit, Courtesy of the Mitfords
With a name like Batsford, the gothic pile situated near the town of Moreton-in-Marsh in Gloucestershire promises much and does not disappoint. Batsford has an arboretum, and a tantalizing pedigree,...
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10 Easy Pieces: Wardian Cases
A precursor to the terrarium, Wardian cases were developed in the mid-1800s to transport rare plant specimens. Today, they are useful for protecting your prized plants. Here's a roundup of our...
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Halloween Decor: The Evolution
It's not like I need to decorate my garden for Halloween, at least not with the same fervor as when my three girls were little and we considered it a wholesome family bonding experience to style the...
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An Arsenal for the Pumpkin Carver
Last week, while attempting to depict a Sol LeWitt-inspired carving on a pumpkin with a cheap drugstore knife, I discovered the importance of quality pumpkin carving tools. So when I spotted these...
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The Plant Portraits of Mieke Verbjilen
Celebrating the reciprocal relationship between plants and their humans, a Belgian photographer captures the joy that even the smallest succulent can bring. Belgian artist Mieke Verbijlen "can't...
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A Green Vitrine for Your Balcony
I've been haunted by the vision of this charming compact greenhouse ever since I spotted it in a blurry Pinterest image a few months back. Was it a product I could get my hands on...or a one-of-a-kind...
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DIY: Secrets of Growing Your Own Wedding Flowers
If you are planning a spring or summer wedding, you can grow your own artfully unstudied bouquets—if you start planning now with military precision. "If you're doing the home-grown look, there is a...
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Pin to Win: Beauty in the Fall
While we turn our attention toward warm layers and indoor house plants, we'd like to know: What inspires you during autumn? In celebration of fall beauty, we're inviting all readers to enter our...
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5 Quick Fixes: Unexpected Planters
There are a million budget-friendly, inventive ways to display plants in the home aside from the usual terra cotta pot; here are five of my favorites, spotted recently around the web: Above: A white...
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Design Sleuth: Galvanized Steel Kitchen Garden
Swedish interior designer Susan Larsson plants her balcony garden each summer in Malmo. In the past Larsson has planted mostly fig and olive trees, but this time focused on kitchen herbs. We...
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Gift for the Gardener: Instant Indoor Herbs
The latest addition to my list of go-to gardening gifts (and my host/hostess gift arsenal): bamboo pots that contain everything necessary to grow a windowsill herb perfect for culinary clipping. A...
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DIY: Planning and Planting the Spring Garden
SPONSORED POST Among the autumn rituals dear to the gardener’s heart is planning ahead: plant new trees and bulbs. They're insurance that you will have a beautiful, floriferous spring. Normally, you do...
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Required Reading: Plans for Small Gardens
Ann-Marie Powell is no stranger to the hard hat. Unlike many people who love flowers, the garden designer and occasional tv presenter loves holding walls as well. This can be the key to a successful...
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The Landscape Designer Is In: Creating and Maintaining a Thriving Kitchen Garden
If you're like us, you dream of having a garden outside your door, from which you can pick fresh herbs and vegetables. This week, Art Luna, the Santa Monica-based landscape designer, walks us through...
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DIY: It's the Great Watermelon, Charlie Brown
File this under "Projects to Impress Trick or Treaters." You'll attract hordes to your stoop, craning to see the only watermelon on the block that's wearing a pumpkin costume. We are quite taken with...
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A Custom Mailbox with Style to Spare
An attractive and hard-wearing mailbox is weirdly hard to find. We recently spotted this appealing streamlined mailbox with address plaque from Austin-based Steel House Manufacturing. Steel House...
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Steal This Look: Miss Havisham's House Plants
"Once, I had been taken to one of our old marsh churches to see a skeleton in the ashes of a rich dress, that had been dug out of a vault under the church pavement.” You know and I know (because I...
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Design Sleuth: Dried Bouquets for the Winter Months
Spotted (and admired) at a recent Kinfolk dinner in Los Angeles: dried bouquets, suspended from the ceiling with twine. Here's a selection of long-stemmed dried flowers suitable for making similar...
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10 Easy Pieces: Best Pumpkins to Plant for Next Year's Halloween
Perusing the pumpkin selections this fall is a perfect time to gather ideas and seeds (if, that is, you can resist roasting and eating them) to plant in your own pumpkin patch next year. Purchase your...
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Calke Abbey in Aspic
A desire for seclusion was a great preoccupation among the heirs to Calke Abbey in Derbyshire. Solitude from the outside world as well as a passion for taxidermy. From the 1880s until the 1980s when...
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