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Landscape Designer Visit: A "Showstopper" Backyard in Brooklyn
When Sarah and Mike Hudnall bought a renovated townhouse in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill neighborhood, they were thrilled to finally have a backyard. But they knew it needed lots of work. They wanted the...
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Recipe Roundup: The Perfect Picnic Menu
I can't remember the last time I had dinner indoors. March? January? It seems like a distant memory. I hope summer lasts forever. Meanwhile, the only challenge is to not run out of ideas for delicious...
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Field Guide: Spinach
Spinach, Spinacea oleracea: "Mr. Workhorse" I'd like to express my gratitude to the Arab traders who brought spinach to China, where it eventually spread with the help of travelers and farmers right to...
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Celia's Garden: At Home with an English Artist and Her Chickens
Celia Hart is an illustrator and printmaker whose blog, Purple Podded Peas, keeps readers up to date on developments in both her garden and her work (oh, and her chickens, too). The old walled garden...
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Steal This Look: An Anglo-Inspired Indoor/Outdoor Kitchen in Sweden
French doors? Check. Floor-to-ceiling windows? Check. A flower from the garden next to the kitchen sink? Must be summer. We recently took note of the indoor/outdoor kitchen of Swedish blogger Catarina...
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DIY: Two Secret Ingredients to Make a Refrigerator Smell Fresh
When I was 20, I lived for five months with a woman named Fabienne and her two young daughters in the city of Toulouse, in southern France. Beyond my delight at speaking French all day and indulging in...
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Vote for the Best Hardscape Project
Our judges have selected the finalists, and now you get to choose the winners. Vote in each of the 17 Considered Design Awards categories, on both Gardenista and Remodelista. You can cast your vote...
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Garden Visit: Secrets of Another Century at Colonial Williamsburg
The historic site of Colonial Williamsburg, the restored 18th-century capital of Virginia, has many stunning landscapes, such as the formal Dutch-Renaissance-style garden at Governor's Palace. But...
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10 Easy Pieces: Onion and Garlic Baskets
Question: What is the modern equivalent of a root cellar? Answer: A root cellar, of course. Unfortunately, most of us don't have one these days (I imagine that even my grandmother's has been turned...
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Bouquet of the Week: Hydrangeas Gone Wild
When I was offered the assignment to make a hydrangea bouquet, I was skeptical. It's well known that Gardenista harbors pro-pom-pom sympathies. But why did Michelle choose to ask me if I wanted to...
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Garden Visit: A Cook's Garden in Upstate New York
There is something deeply satisfying about eating directly from the garden. The fruit of one’s own labor really does taste sweeter. As my husband, George, and I finish our fifth year of living...
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Hardscaping 101: The Ins and Outs of Dutch Doors
Here's a door with a split personality. Open and welcoming on the one hand, private and protective on the other. We're talking, of course, about the Dutch door. A precursor to the screen door, it keeps...
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Recipe Roundup: 5 Favorite Summer Salads
Summer is a season of contradictions: so much delicious fresh food, so little desire to cook. For me, the perfect summer kitchen is one I barely see. Cold drinks and colder salads are the answer. Plus...
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Vote for the Best Amateur Small Garden
Our judges have selected the finalists, now you choose the winners. Vote for the finalists in each of 17 Considered Design Awards categories, on both Gardenista and Remodelista. You can vote once a day...
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Outbuilding of the Week: A Tiny Summerhouse in South London
In the South London backyard of a grand brick house sits a shingled one-room cottage. It feels like a secret clubhouse, peeping out from behind the flower beds. The summerhouse, not far from Wandsworth...
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Recipe Roundup: 5 Easy Summer Desserts
Some days it's too hot to think about food. By all means, skip dinner. But dessert? Never. Here are five of our favorite recipes for garden-to-table summer desserts. Second helpings will make you feel...
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Trending on Remodelista: Summery Kitchens
This week, the editors of Remodelista were happy to hang out in the kitchen—the easy, breezy, summer season kitchen that feels like an oasis, that is. Take a look at what they uncovered: foraged...
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Current Obsessions: Water Lilies in Bloom
Here's a look at what's on our radar this week: Above: On our wish list: limited-edition cork vases, handmade in Oakland, California. Photograph courtesy of Of a Kind. Design Milk founder and editor in...
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A Starlit Greenhouse Dinner, Martha's Vineyard Edition
Spotted on Lizzie Garrett's Tomboy Style, a communal dinner in a greenhouse at Beetlebung Farm, on the southwestern edge of Martha's Vineyard. Beetlebung Farm, a five-acre property in Chilmark,...
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Table of Contents: Patterns and Prints
The more time we spend gardening, the more we appreciate the sculptural shapes and subtle patterns and colors we see everywhere we go, not just in gardens and plantings and hardscapes, but in natural...
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