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Current Obsessions: London Town
Take a look at what's on our radar. Spoiler: We can't help it, we're having a London moment. Above: Spending the summer in London? This sounds like something out of a dream: a roving gin garden....
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The Garden Designer Is In: A Deer-Proof Edible Garden, East Coast Edition
When garden designer Andrea Filippone was studying architecture at Harvard, she focused on modern style: She loved clean lines and rectangular shapes, and lots of steel, concrete, and glass. She fully...
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2014 Considered Design Awards Prize, FAQ, and Official Rules
Table of Contents: Prize Frequently Asked Questions Official Rules Back to Gardenista Awards Page Prize Winning projects will be covered with full posts on Remodelista or Gardenista, and winning...
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Table of Contents: Scandi Midsummer
As summer solstice approaches, we'll spend the week preparing for Midsummer. We'll be exploring Scandinavian gardens, summer homes, and cocktails. Elderflower cordial, anyone? Monday Above: In this...
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Architect Visit: A Modular Danish Summer House—Ready To Go in Six Months
The Danish architectural firm Lykke + Nielsen has launched a side business building modular summer cottages. Created from a simple modular template, the houses can be in place within six months of...
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Field Guide: Pelargonium
Pelargonium: "The Stork's Head" Please don't call them "geraniums." We have to get past that. They're actually pelargoniums, flowering plants indigenous to South Africa. In Sweden, where gardeners have...
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Announcing the Gardenista 2014 Considered Design Awards
We're thrilled to announce the second annual Gardenista Considered Design Awards, which give us the chance to honor our readers' gardens and outdoor spaces. Read on to learn more about the contest—and...
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Garden Visit: An Enchanted Garden in Sweden
One would expect to find lavish gardens surrounding the stone castle-turned-hotel called Häringe Slott, near Stockholm. And one would not be disappointed: Photography via Ingalls Photography. Above:...
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Steal This Look: A Danish Summer House with Outdoor Shower
When you live in a climate where winter is the longest season, you have to cram a lot of outdoor living into the rest of the year. Just north of Copenhagen, we discovered a summer house that's designed...
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Guest Judges of the 2014 Considered Design Awards
We're thrilled to announce a new addition to our awards program this year: a roster of garden- and design-world luminaries as guest judges. Each judge will review one contest category alongside the...
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Flower Arranging 101: A Crown Fit for a Faerie Queen
If there's one day a year when a person should be permitted to parade around like a faerie queen, it's your birthday. But let's not discriminate. Like watermelon and marshmallows, flower crowns belong...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Scandinavia
Consider that in the northernmost parts of Scandinavia the growing season is 60 days long. The rest of the year is basically a prelude to or recovery from winter. This is all you need to know to...
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Trend Alert: Floral Confetti
A wedding is a great excuse to walk around the garden in the loaming, basket and scissors in hand, collecting fresh flowers for confetti. But why wait for such a big occasion? If you enjoy deadheading,...
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10 Easy Pieces: Outdoor Folding Chairs
What I love about warm weather: Guests show up at a moment's notice. Sometimes it's easier to feed them than to seat them, though, unless you have a secret stash of folding chairs—the weather-resistant...
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Technical Difficulties: Gardenista Awards Submissions
Dear Readers: Nobody's perfect, especially us. We were so thrilled to hit the launch button on this year's Considered Design Awards that we failed to notice a fatal flaw: our apologies, but projects...
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Winner's Prize: 2014 Gardenista Considered Design Awards
In addition to receiving a full project profile on our site, all seven winners of the 2014 Gardenista Considered Design Awards will be given a limited-edition Jieldé SI333 Signal Desk Lamp in Bronze (a...
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Hardscaping 101: Hog Wire
What I've noticed more and more lately (and admired) are hog wire panels: used for fences, gates, and trellises. A mainstay on ranches for decades, hog wire panels been discovered by homeowners and...
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GROW London: A New Contemporary Garden Fair on Hampstead Heath
A new kind of garden event is coming to town this week. It's called GROW London, The Contemporary Garden Fair, and it's exactly what we've been waiting for. Yes, the Chelsea Flower Show just finished...
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A Family Recipe for Elderflower Cordial via Dublin
Our friends at Makers & Brothers, the dashing purveyors of Irish design Jonathan and Mark Legge, like to keep things in the family. But they've generously shared their mother's recipe for...
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Outbuilding of the Week: The 186-Square-Foot Guest Cottage
Raise your hand if you have space to sleep all your houseguests. Thought not. Basically, no one has enough guest rooms. But as I learned from living in New York (where for two years I operated a de...
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