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Gardening 101: Yuccas
Yucca: “Striking Sword” With more than 50 different species of Yucca, these shrubs hold their own as distinctive and striking evergreen landscape elements. Native to the southwestern United States,...
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10 Easy Pieces: Grass Block Pavers
If you would like to avoid paving paradise to put up a parking lot, as Joni Mitchell put it, grass block pavers can be a greener choice to surface a driveway, patio, or path. Grass block pavers create...
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Required Reading: Botanical by Samuel Zeller
One spring evening in 2015, graphic designer Samuel Zeller got off a train one stop early after a bad day at work in Geneva and visited a botanical garden with a camera. He was not a keen...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Design Ideas for a Mini-Remodel
No need undertake a gut renovation to refresh your home. From small-scale remodel projects (such as adding a screened porch or installing crown molding) to micro-upgrades as simple as adding a colorful...
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Flowering Magnolias: 7 Favorite Trees to Plant
After visiting a place where magnolias grow luxuriantly (like Cornwall in England), it is natural that on arriving home, the idea of growing one takes hold. Not the usual saucer magnolia (M. x...
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Current Obsessions: April Showers, May Flowers
This weekend, as we head into May: flower arranging workshops and a gin distilled from Edinburgh’s botanical garden, plus Brooklyn’s big event. Here’s your weekend reading. Above: Photograph from...
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Everything You Need to Know About Flowering Trees
Thank you flowering trees, for alerting us to the fact that it is definitely spring. We might have missed that development if not for the sudden, glorious explosion of pink and white and purply-tinged...
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Ask The Expert: How to Plant a Meadow Garden, with James Hitchmough
It’s impossible not to be seduced by the drama and scale of meadow and prairie planting and James Hitchmough, professor at Sheffield University in the UK, has worked on some of the most magical...
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10 Ideas to Steal from Midcentury Modern Gardens
Midcentury modern garden design evolved alongside the breathless optimism of America’s suburbs. In those post-war decades, the prospects of having greater prosperity and more leisure time seemed as...
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Object of Desire: Elegant Ceramic Planters from Hasami Porcelain
New from Hasami Porcelain, one of our favorite purveyors of Japanese ceramics: planters in two sizes and three colors, each made in Japan of a mix of porcelain and earth-colored clay. Hasami has been...
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Gardening 101: Trilliums
Trillium, Trillium: “Jewels of the Spring” With their exotic-looking blooms, it is easy to see why trilliums are one of America’s most prized wildflowers. Alas, due to habitat destruction and poaching,...
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Ikea Summer 2018: 10 Best Products for Outdoor Living on a Budget
As if the soft serve ice cream cones ($1) weren’t enough to lure me into braving the crowds at my nearest Ikea store? Ikea’s newest collection of outdoor furnishings, plant pots, and accessories for...
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10 Easy Pieces: Illuminated Pavers
Illuminated pavers sit flush with the surface of a driveway or path, discreetly hiding their powers until the sun goes down. Unlike bollards or landscape lights on poles, illuminated pavers light up...
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Thinking of embarking on a remodel this spring (or anytime for that matter?). We want to help. Our mission has always been to provide remodeling inspiration, ideas, and advice, and now we’ve partnered...
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Light It Up: 7 Elegant Ways to Illuminate a Landscape
Outdoor lighting should be dramatic without being overly theatrical. To create elegant illumination in a landscape, consider all the tools at your disposal—from stairway riser lights to underwater...
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Garden Visit: A Hanging Orchid Garden in San Isidro, Buenos Aires
The San Isidro neighborhood of Buenos Aires is filled with old stone houses, neo-Gothic churches, cobblestone streets, and lush greenery. Huge magnolia and jacaranda trees live happily next to tropical...
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Gardening 101: Cherry Laurel
Cherry Laurel, Prunus laurocerasus: Common Laurel Cherry laurel is a handsome evergreen shrub that will tolerate shade and produces dainty white sweet-smelling flowers in spring. It is fast-growing and...
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10 Ideas to Steal from the World’s Biggest Botanical Garden
As the world’s most famous botanical garden, Kew is an awe-inspiring place to visit with vast glasshouses (the newly restored Temperate House which was originally built over four decades, opening in...
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Gardening 101: Tree Heather
Tree Heather, Erica arborea: “The Heather Giant” If heather makes you think of rockeries from the 1970s, tree heather is a revelation. It is graceful, mysterious, show-stopping: all the things that...
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Rethinking Poppies: How to Make a Fragile Flower Last Longer
The wild red poppies of Europe (Papaver rhoeas) have symbolized remembrance for soldiers since World War I when poet John McCrae wrote In Flanders Field, describing a landscape where “the poppies blow,...
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