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Tools of the Trade: Japanese Garden Tools
The tool kit of Japanese master gardeners is the object of envy. Luckily for amateurs, beautifully made and durable Japanese garden tools are within easy reach. Here's a collection of our favorites....
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Ask the Expert: 7 Tips for Making a Moss Checkerboard
In 1939, Japanese designer Mirei Shigemori was the bad boy of Zen gardens. His use of Western geometry in an ancient temple outraged the public, but it was his l'enfant terrible attitude that gave him...
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10 Easy Pieces: Noguchi Style Sculpture and Rocks
No offense to gnomes or pagodas, but for something more profound in your garden, consider an abstract sculpture in the style of Isamu Noguchi. The midcentury artist, perhaps most famous for designing...
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Shopper's Diary: Jessica Wickham and the Art of Woodworking
Jessica Wickham is a scavenger. Dedicated to sustainable, artisanal use of natural resources, the upstate NY-based woodworker and furniture designer has been retrieving “dead and down” logs from Hudson...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Japan
It's no coincidence if Japanese gardens remind you of those scene-in-a-shoebox dioramas you made in grade school. A Japanese garden is a miniature world full of abstract shapes—rocks, gravel, and...
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Zen and the Art of Bathing: 12 Serene Soaking Tubs
Sitting in a hot bath with a forest view and a light breeze is pretty close to our idea of heaven, and we have the soaking tub to thank for it. We've collected 12 of our favorite Japanese-inspired...
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Gardening 101: Sea Kelp for Healthy Houseplants
Sea kelp is a superfood for humans and plants too. It's packed with 70 micronutrients and among them is cytokinin, a growth hormone that promotes healthy roots. As a gardener with an indoor living...
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Hardscaping 101: Outdoor Wall Lights
Wall-mounted outdoor fixtures are the chameleons of landscape lighting. They can be used virtually anywhere in your garden that offers a flat vertical surface. N.B.: This is the fourth in our series...
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DIY: No-Fuss Bonsai for Beginners
While there is no such thing as an effortless bonsai, we are making progress. The rules have changed since bonsai revolutionary Kenji Koyahashi invented keshiki bonsai. Tokyo-based Koyahashi, who...
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Lit Up: Readers' Spooky Halloween Curb Appeal
Move over, Martha. Gardenista readers know how to decorate for Halloween. We asked—you answered. Thanks for sending us photos of your Halloween Pumpkins. After sifting through scores of pictures (and...
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Ask the Expert: Bonsai Basics with Eric Schrader
Tiny, tortured bonsai trees, wise beyond their years, fascinate me. What separates them from their shopping mall cousins—shelves of identical plants, each with a tiny clay Confucius at its roots? To...
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Outbuilding of the Week: A Teahouse Shaped Like a Hat
There is something intentionally quirky about a tiny hat-shaped teahouse in a backyard in Ostrava, a Czech city near the Polish border. Built to accommodate three for tea, the steep-roofed structure...
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Garden-to-Table: Spiced Squash for Two
The funny thing about growing your own produce is that suddenly the October-November obsession with pumpkins and squash makes sense. North America is overflowing with them. How best to eat squash?...
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DIY: A Desktop Zen Garden
Sometimes working in a creative field can feel like living in a Tom Cruise spy film. Like when you open an email from your editor inquiring if you might be willing to create a desktop Zen garden of the...
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Trending on Remodelista: Right Now in Japan
We've been students of Japanese design all week, and so have the Remodelista editors. From their Lessons of Japan, we admired a Zen makeover of an LA bungalow, met a kitchen designer who says "smart...
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Current Obsessions: Supper Time
Take a look at what's on our radar this week: Above: The folks at Sunday Suppers make salt roasted vegetables look so easy. Currently Craving: Autumn body oil from Marble & Milkweed. Above: How...
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Required Reading: Decorating With Plants By Satoshi Kawamoto
It would be churlish to resist the playful charm of Satoshi Kawamoto, so we have fallen for him hook, line, and sinker. In his book Decorating with Plants the Tokyo-based floral stylist shows that his...
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Table of Contents: Holiday Prep
The secret to making any holiday season look easy is mindful planning. With make-ahead wreaths, garages transformed into guest quarters, and easy ideas for instant parties, we're here to help (we're...
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Landscape Architect Visit: Nelson Byrd Woltz and a Wild Virginia Meadow
In the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, the owner of a property with 22 acres of open grazing land had a strong conservation ethic. She asked Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBW)...
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DIY on a Budget: A Silvery Holiday Wreath for $20
When I set out to make a wreath that could hold its own over the changing seasons and multiple holidays that we’ll see in the coming two months, my first thought was to forage. I imagined twists of...
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