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10 Easy Pieces: Lighted House Numbers
Entryway lighting, meet your new best friend: house numbers. Whether they’re powered by LED or incandescent bulbs, lighted address plaques will beckon visitors into a warm glow at night. Here are 10...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Elegant Design Ideas, on a Budget
At Remodelista, “spring refresh” is an oxymoron. See five of the editors’ favorite stylish (and budget-friendly) ideas to refresh the interior design of a home: Stylish Hardware Hooks Above: A zinc...
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Everything You Need to Know About Building a Patio
A new patio project can be daunting. If you’re thinking of adding a patio to your backyard or garden, you probably have a few questions. To get some answers, we talked to landscape architect Bay...
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Current Obsessions: The Cutting Garden
Among the items on our (increasingly busy) spring garden calendars: a New York plant pop-up, a California succulents sale, and a festival dedicated to trilliums. Here’s a glimpse. Above: The newest in...
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Gardening 101: String of Pearls
String of Pearls: Senecio rowleyanus The succulent string of pearls, with its small green bubbles along a slender stem, recalls the plastic pop-apart beads of childhood dress-up bins. It can’t help its...
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Landscaping: 10 Classic Layouts for Townhouse Gardens
Small space, infinite possibilities. Behind every city townhouse lies a garden. Some are long and narrow, others short and squat. No matter the size, a well-designed garden is an oasis in a city...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from New Orleans
One morning in 1854, after “thundering into New Orleans” on a riverboat, Frederick Law Olmsted had a bath and breakfast at his hotel and then wandered onto an intoxicating scene: “I was delighted when...
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Object of Desire: A Revolutionary Terra Cotta Pot
Recently an email landed in our inbox with only one line: “Revolutionary terra cotta pots suitable for indoor use.” It got our attention: While we love the look of terra cotta (it’s the linen of the...
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Gardening 101: Wood Anemones
Wood Anemone, A. nemorosa: “Gladed Windflower” “The wood anemone is so often seen in the woods that there is rarely need to grow it,” wrote the wild-gardening plantsman William Robinson in 1883. A rare...
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Everything You Need to Know About Driveways
Driveways are a great improvement over the rutted dirt paths that in centuries past connected houses to public roads. Modern-day suburbia has landscape architects to thank for the invention of the...
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10 Easy Pieces: Portable Outdoor LED Lanterns
We like the idea of a multi-tasking outdoor lamp that goes anywhere: the garden, the park, the beach, and back indoors. Here are our picks for portable, rechargeable, and versatile outdoor LED...
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Gardening 101: Skimmia
Skimmia, Skimmia: “Jeeves of Plants” It’s a steadfast evergreen shrub, undemanding and dependable. Often brought out in winter for seasonal displays, skimmia is then wheeled away again. This is a pity...
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Downsizing a House to Expand the Garden: At Home with Landscape Architect...
Though he’s a landscape architect known for designing gardens to complement large houses, Australia-based William Dangar often gets to work with only a little land. Time and again, he says, “the...
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Shopper’s Diary: Leaf Shop Végétal in Paris
If browsing for houseplants at Leaf feels like shopping inside a Parisian greenhouse, it’s no coincidence. Architects Hélène Pinaud and Julien Schwartzmann of Heju Studio, who designed the...
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Privacy Landscaping: How to Use Plants in a City Garden
If you’re lucky enough to have a garden in a big city, you learn to accept the fact that while you’re out there, you’re in full view of everyone whose windows overlook your yard. Hanging an awning over...
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Objects of Desire: Wet Vessels by Aviva Rowley
New York-based ceramist (and florist) Aviva Rowley creates Wet Vessels: vases, planters, and pots with moody, gun-metal glazes. But be warned: each piece is one of a kind, so when it’s sold, it’s gone....
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10 Ideas to Steal from English Cottage Gardens
The best cottage gardens look like they planted themselves. They didn’t, of course. But the design principles they follow are simple. The English invented the cottage garden, probably in the 1400s when...
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10 Easy Pieces: Gate Braces and Brackets
Middle-age sag is the sort of universal problem that even afflicts garden gates. Lucky gates, though—for them there’s an easy fix. Metal braces, brackets, and anti-sag hardware can improve posture...
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Gardening 101: Daphne
Daphne, Daphne: “Pleasantly Spicy” The scent of Daphne precedes it, like the reputation of Daphne, the wood nymph. In Greek mythology, she was so appalled by the lechery of Apollo that she became a...
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English Gardens: The Wild Fritillary Meadows at Oxford University
There is a kind of cult around Fritillaria meleagris—the snake’s head fritillary—to do with its looks and its name and the fact that the kind of garden in which it thrives is not necessarily the kind...
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