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A Low-Maintenance Container for Summer
Danny, the newest member of our staff, wanted a no-maintenance container garden to fill an empty corner of his San Francisco deck. On a Memorial Day that was happily rainy (California is in a severe...
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Trending on Remodelista: Small Space Lessons from Houseboats
Spend a night on a houseboat and you'll learn all kinds of lessons about compact, stylish design. Julie and the Remodelista team were on the waterfront all week, taking notes. Above: Christine spends...
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Current Obsessions: Modern Landscapes
Read on to find out what caught our attention this week. Above: A Brooklyn backyard has no life before it's transformed by its new owners. How to grow dahlias. Above: Sip on summer. Photograph by...
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Table of Contents: DIY Landscaping
Own it. It's your outdoor space and you can do whatever you want with it—all summer long. This week, we'll share a few of our favorite DIY landscaping hacks, including ideas to steal from New York City...
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Rhode Island Roses: A Seaside Summer Garden in New England
Built in 1930, a shingled seaside cottage and its sprawling gardens in Little Compton, Rhode Island had seen better days by the time Dara and Dan Brewster bought the property in 2000. But then, isn't...
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Announcing the 2015 Gardenista Considered Design Awards
Today we're thrilled to launch the third annual Gardenista Considered Design Awards, in which we honor our readers' design skills and admire their home gardens and outdoor spaces. Read on to learn more...
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Landscape on a Budget: 10 Quick Fixes to Add Personality to the Average Garden
Giving the average backyard the full treatment is a serious commitment, requiring time, adrenal stress, and a sturdy dip into the finances. Instead, here's a blueprint for taking it on yourself, one...
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Mobile Me: A Landscape Design App That Gets Personal
The problem with many landscape design apps is they really are not interested in your garden. Instead, they expect outdoor spaces to conform to their idea of what a garden should be: a perfect, empty...
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Brass Wall Planters from Rowen & Wren in the UK
These brass wall planters from UK retailer Rowen & Wren remind us of giant brass bin pulls—in a good way. For more about the shop, see Refined Rural: Housewares from Rowen & Wren, and shop...
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Apartment Therapy: 11 Garden Ideas to Steal from New York City
Gardeners in New York City are a little different. They have to be. There are not many apple trees in the Big Apple, and the "concrete jungle" is pure heat-radiating irony. Cities need plants, and just...
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20 Under $20: Best Summer Garden Tools and Accessories
It's June so of course you want to be outdoors: It's a chemical thing. Resistance is futile. Get out there and dig, or plant some flowers, or putter around labeling the basil. And take one of these 20...
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Shopper's Diary: Flowers From Miss Pickering
In the heart of Middle England is Stamford, an outrageously pretty town. Miss Pickering's flower business is just off the High Street, in a low-ceilinged shop, serviced by a single window. It is...
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DIY: Instant Painter's Drop Cloth Pergola
Spotted on the blog Anything Pretty: A genius idea for adding a bit of shade to a simple wood pergola. All that's required: A couple of painter's drop cloths and a batch of grommets. Above: Photo via...
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Edible Garden: A Veg-Wedge on Legs
Call it the weekend renter's edible garden. The clever design of a wooden Veg-Wedge raised bed allows you to grow herbs and cherry tomatoes at your summer share (put it in a sunny spot on the deck if...
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Walk on the Wild Side: A New England Woodland Garden
Founded in 1900, the New England Wild Flower Society is the nation’s oldest organization dedicated to the conservation of native plants. Today the society manages eight sanctuaries in four New England...
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Tiny Footprint: A Prefab Home for Two, in 183 Square Feet
How simply do you want to live? The question prompted South Africa-based architect Clara da Cruz Almeida to design a 183-square-foot prefab house—for two people to share. "You can learn to live without...
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Gardening 101: How to Prune Roses
Mrs. Hart was my next-door neighbor on Long Island. She was what we called "an original owner," having moved into her brand-new house in a brand-new subdivision in the post-war exuberance of the 1940s....
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Trending on Remodelista: Summer Refresh
This week the Remodelista editors issued a summer manifesto: "Time to throw open the windows, air out the house, put away the winter woolens." Here are their budget-friendly secrets for how to fix up a...
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Current Obsessions: Summer Disposition
Here's a look at what we loved this week: Above: Garden designer Umberto Pasti shares advice for cultivating your own piece of earth (plus, a tour of his own garden in Tangier). Photograph by Ngoc...
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Table of Contents: Modern Landscaping
What makes a landscape design feel modern? This week we look for answers: in gardens devoted exclusively to native plants, in a solar-paneled pool house on the eastern tip of Long Island, and at home...
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