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Current Obsessions: Heading into Harvest
Take a look at a few things we've been loving lately: Above: Go for the romance (plus more tips for creating an alluring cottage garden). Photograph by Jan Johnsen. Gardenista is now on Hometalk....
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Before and After: 5 Favorite Garden Rehabs
We know the landscape architect and designer members of our Architect/Designer Directory are talented, but nothing drives the point home like a good before and after. Here are some amazing gardens...
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Garden-to-Table Recipe: Colorful Fresh Pasta
I'm not new to fresh pasta; my mom makes it, several Italian friends make it, and we have the process down well enough that we're reaching for flour just as we're starting to get hungry for dinner. But...
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Table of Contents: Harvest Moon
Do you hear that crunch of leaves underfoot? September is our favorite season. The air is tinged both with nostalgia for our school days and anticipation of the holidays. This week we'll be picking...
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Architect Visit: A Stylish Garden Shed with a Secret
Seattle-based SHED (members of our architect and designer directory) designed an unassuming backyard shed with barn doors that roll open on two sides, allowing it to double as a well-appointed...
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$450 Gardenista Giveaway: True Nature Botanicals
Here at Gardenista, we strive to take a natural approach to our skin care and beauty regimens. Erin showed us how to make a face mask with flowers and Dalilah demonstrated how easy it is to ditch...
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Field Guide: Apple Trees
Apples (Aplicus Rosacea): "Love-Struck" Have you ever just known that your blind date has some shadowy past behind his chiseled cheekbones? Well, meet apple trees, the plant equivalent of dating...
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DIY Natural Remedy: Calendula Oil from Obercreek Farm
At Obercreek Farm in Hughsonville, New York (near Poughkeepsie), owners Sam Wildfong and husband Tim Heuer (who happens to be my cousin) have been growing more than 200 varieties of vegetables and...
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11 Ways to Add Curb Appeal for Under $100
Too many people ignore curb appeal until it's time to move. Then they spruce up the place for the next residents. How does this make sense? Every time you come home, the sight of your front door should...
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The Dinner Party Project: Easy Weeknight Recipes
Dinner parties shouldn't be hard to throw. To prove it, I invited friends over—and then fed them an easy-to-make menu based on what's in season right now at the farmers' market. Best night ever. (Hint:...
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10 Easy Pieces: Concrete Outdoor Furniture
Maybe you're as sick as I am of outdoor furniture that warps, rots, stains, splinters, sags, or falls apart if you forget to bring it indoors in bad weather? If so, consider concrete. Here's a material...
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Garden Visit: At Home with Philippa Burrough at Ulting Wick
Having trouble adjusting to the Autumn Equinox? This eight-acre English garden in Essex makes the seasonal transition rather effortlessly. Or at least that's the effect intended by Ulting Wick's...
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DIY: Dried Vegetables, Colonial Style
An autumn tradition in my family, our annual walk on the "Battlefield Road" retraces the footsteps of Paul Revere from Lexington to Concord. Here, in addition to autumn splendor, we enjoy presentations...
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Recipe Contest: We'll Feature Winners at our Next Dinner Party
Over the weekend, we hosted a dinner party to welcome the fall, featured in The Dinner Party Project: Easy Weeknight Recipes. We built the menu using our favorites from Gardenista's trove of...
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Garden Roundup: 10 Reasons Not to Rake Autumn Leaves
Why are you spending your Saturdays raking? Think of autumn's colorful leaves as jewelry for the garden. To inspire you, here are 10 gardens that look particularly good draped in fall's colors—all from...
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Required Reading: Green Kitchen Travels
Following the success of their first book, Vegetarian Everyday, David Frenkiel and Luise Vindahl, founders of the popular vegetarian food blog Green Kitchen Stories, have just come out with a new book:...
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Hardscaping 101: Best Window Boxes
Name a construction material—wood, zinc, copper, iron, tin, ceramic, terra cotta, wire—and no doubt someone somewhere has made a window box from it (I once saw beautiful window boxes made out of rubber...
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Domestic Dispatches: 7 Secrets to Make a Perfect Bed
If you count all the hours we allot to plumping pillows, smoothing sheets, straightening shams, and fussing over how the whole thing looks, we spend as much time on our beds as in them. Yet the results...
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Garden-to-Table Recipe: 10-Minute Pasta Sauce with Radicchio and Cheese
I made this recipe for three reasons. One, I wanted to try a recipe from the cookbook we recently reviewed, Bitter. Two, I had just made fresh red pasta, colored with beets, and was seeking a sauce...
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Orchard Visit: Apple Picking in New England at Sweet Berry Farm
It always throws me for a loop to see the first fall apples appear among the last of the summer stone fruits at our farmers' market in Rhode Island. Apples and peaches belong to two distinctly...
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