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10 Easy Pieces: Potting Benches
Is a potting bench a luxury or a necessity? We think both. It's a way to avoid an aching back from squatting to pot plants, a means to contain gardening mess, and provider of outdoor storage. We're...
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Privacy, Please: A Garden Where Trees and Shrubs Hide the Neighbors
Back in 1954, when a one-story house was built on a one-acre lot in Lake Oswego, Oregon, the property had plenty of privacy. No more. With three brand-new houses on the property's perimeter, the...
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A Clever Way to Collect Rainwater
One of our favorite ways to collect fresh water for the garden is with a wall-mounted rain tank: Above: A rust-resistant galvanized steel Water Butt with its own watering can can be attached to a...
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DIY: Plant a Fruit Tree That Blooms in the Spring
SPONSORED POST Let's say you don't have the world's biggest garden. Why should a little thing like that stop you from having an apple orchard? Ever since we discovered the existence of multi-graft...
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Beautiful Plant Pots from Putikmade
You can never have enough ceramic vessels. At least this is true in Sweden, where most every windowsill is covered in potted plants (we have wide sills due to thick house walls). Here is a nice...
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5 Favorites: Rambling Paths and Uneven Pavers
Really good paths are made with love. Created with a sense of optimism and enterprise. Hand-built by friends and family, their pleasant associations are as permanent as the hard core underfoot. If the...
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A Mediterranean Idyll on the Pacific Palisades
According to the Santa Monica-based landscape designer Art Luna, “Great gardens mean great structure. And great structure is longevity.” Luna first started creating gardens 15 years ago as a way to...
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Gardenista Gift Guide: For the House Plant Horticulturalist
Note to my family (and anyone else who wants to buy a holiday gift for an indoor gardener): The theme this year is splurge. Allow me to clarify. This does not mean you need to spend millions....
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Making the Most of the Fall Herb Garden
SPONSORED POST An herb is a plant which is useful, either for culinary, medicinal, or domestic purposes. As such it is fine about being snipped, and a pot of parsley with half its stalks cut is a very...
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Steal This Look: A Potting Shed Made of Scraps
Drive west across San Francisco as far as possible, nearly to the ocean; you can see the water from the end of the block. In the foggy Outer Sunset surfer district, restaurant owners Dave Muller and...
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Raised Garden Bed Round-Up
The geometry of raised beds in a garden is enough to win me over. Here's a collection of pre-made (for us hammer-shy types) raised garden beds, all crafted of long-wearing, mold-resistant cedar, that...
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Instant Taps for Your Raised Garden Beds
Here's a solution to the ongoing problem of having to drag hoses and sprinklers around your garden beds: Aquacorner, an instant tap for your raised garden bed. Pair it with a soaker hose that stays...
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DIY Video: Preparing Your Fall Garden
SPONSORED POST No matter whether you have an old, established garden or a brand-new backyard plan you installed this year, fall is the season to start preparing—for next spring. As you prune, mulch,...
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Pinspiration: Favorite Photos from Our 'Followers'
Some days the Internet feels like a big jumble of noise and confusion, like a traffic jam where everybody's horn is blaring for attention. How do you sort through it to find the good stuff? You get a...
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Secrets to Surviving a Hurricane: NYC's High Line Park
What does it take to weather proof a garden against the worst storm of the century? New York City's High Line Park, a tourist magnet built 30 feet above ground—and directly in Hurricane Sandy's...
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5 Quick Fixes: Collecting Rainwater with Style
Take note: the rainy season is well upon us in most parts of the Northern Hemisphere. To divert runoff and collect rainwater for irrigation and livestock, here are five attractive solutions: Above: A...
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DIY Video: How to Clone Herbs in Your Kitchen
Sometimes you can make the most serendipitous gardening discoveries indoors—in my case, in the kitchen. I keep herb cuttings in water, and one day I noticed roots. It turns out you can propagate herbs...
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Hornbeam: A Hedge for All Seasons
I count myself lucky to be the new owner of a stately 19th century New England home, complete with butler's pantry and winding stair. The only blight on its historic character? A nasty chain link...
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Holiday Gift Guide: For the Armchair Farmer
Here's a roundup of holiday gifts for the farmer in your life; to make sure we've got everyone on your list covered, see all of our gift guides to date in our House Gifts section. Above: Field Notes...
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Stacking Green House: An Urban Jungle in Vietnam
With his winning entry for the House Category in the 2012 World Architecture Festival, Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia gives us hope that the days of fooling Mother Nature may be over soon; it’s...
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