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Current Obsessions: Busy in the Garden
Here's a look at what's on our radar this week: Above: A San Francisco-based baker, Cake Bloom, dyes desert fillings and buttercream with plants from the garden. The Brooklyn Botanical Garden...
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Table of Contents: Style on a Budget
Stylish comfort: is that so much to expect? This week we offer our favorite low-budget tips and tricks for kitting out your outdoor space. We'll be making our own DIY concrete planters, recycling...
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Garden Designer Visit: A Study in Green by Franchesca Watson
It's one thing to create a garden that looks beautiful when you see it at ground level, but Franchesca Watson, a landscape designer in South Africa, has taken things further. Â She has designed a garden...
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DIY on a Budget: $30 Mini Concrete Planters
File this one under trial and error: I started the project with high hopes of making a 2-gallon cement planter that I could stock with a variety of succulents. But while struggling to free the large...
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Field Guide: Kale
Kale (Brassica oleracea): "Faddy for a Reason" While it's easy to roll your eyes at the fad of kale—the foodie darling, nutritionist's dream, hipster-approved fad—I have a feeling that kale will become...
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Gray Gardens: A Visit to San Francisco's Foggiest Backyard
In the years since the General Store SF opened near a surfer's beach in San Francisco's foggy Outer Sunset neighborhood, it has been notable for its ability to lure shoppers to a remote outpost of...
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Steal This Look: Mattress Springs as DIY Wall Art
We immediately decided to recycle in style after we spotted a unique garden feature—rusted bedsprings attached to a brick wall—in the suburban Melbourne garden of designer Andrew Plymin. As Plymin...
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10 Easy Pieces: Budget-Friendly Unfinished Wood Furniture
There is no way to sugarcoat this: When you buy outdoor furniture, you are spending money on something that will sooner or later be destroyed by wind, rain, soot, dust, bird droppings, pollen, dried...
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Required Reading: Gardens in Detail
In the biographical notes about Emma Reuss in her new book, Gardens in Detail, her achievements are listed: diploma from the Royal Horticulture Society, Best Trade Journalist in the Garden Media Guild...
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Shopper's Diary: Cluck! Urban Farm Supply in Rhode Island
Providence is a city teeming with urban farmers, but for a long time there was no locally owned nursery or feed store. I had to drive at least 20 minutes just to find chicken feed (and in a state as...
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Small Space DIY: Countertop Herb Garden
One of life’s chief pleasures is the simple act of plucking one’s own herbs from a kitchen garden. For city folk without outdoor space, it can be easy to feel left out. But here’s good news for...
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Required Reading: Bitter
I picked up Bitter after spotting its dark, eerie cover. I scanned the subhead—"A taste of the world's most dangerous flavor"—and knew I couldn't ignore a book like that. Australian-born, Toronto-based...
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10 Genius Garden Hacks with Concrete Blocks
Is there a more versatile hardscaping material than the humble concrete block? In the garden, you can use it to make: a wall, a privacy screen, a breeze block window, a planter for succulents, a raised...
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Garden Visit: Local Flowers from Robin Hollow Farm in Rhode Island
As I arrived at Polly and Mike Hutchison's flower farm in Saunderstown, Rhode Island the other day, I was met with a flurry of activity. Buckets of dahlias and sunflowers were being loaded into the...
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Hardscaping 101: Window Boxes
There is much to recommend the humble window box. Â As a low-tech home beautifier, it is unparalleled. Fill it with a few bright flowering plants and maybe a vine or two from the local nursery and,...
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9 Secrets to Growing Succulents Indoors
I've killed every succulent I've ever attempted to grow. Things start off well enough, but a few weeks after I bring succulents into my home, they start to look spindly and sad before they give up and...
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A Balcony-Style Planter for Indoors from MAKR
I've had my eye on this plant ring from MAKR for what feels like years. It's simple and classic but still a little bit unusual. I'm not sure what the policy is on drilling into the wall, but I'm...
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Outbuilding of the Week: A Study in Black by LA Designer Alexandra Angle
Los Angeles-based designer Alexandra Angle worked in event design and wrote an entertaining guide with her husband, Eliot, called Cocktail Parties with a Twist, before setting up her interior design...
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Basil's Last Stand: A Garden-to-Table Frozen Cocktail Recipe
My yard is filled with the rich scent of plants making their last stand. Lettuces allowed to go to seed are leafy columns waving small flowers like flags of surrender. The last of the summer sun fuels...
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Trending on Remodelista: Style on a Budget
Sometimes our eyes are bigger than our pocketbooks. It's easy to remodel if you have a million dollars to spend. But when you don't? This week Remodelista's editors came up with 101 ways to create...
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