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Countdown: 5 Days Left to Enter Our 2018 Considered Design Awards
The countdown is on: You have only five more days to submit your garden and home design projects into the 2018 Gardenista Considered Design Awards. Enter by midnight Pacific on Friday, June 22, in any...
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Designer Visit: Sheila Jack’s White Garden in West London
A career in art direction is a useful grounding for anybody wishing to go into garden design. Sheila Jack‘s career shift was not so much a break as a continuum of research, editing, and presentation....
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10 Easy Pieces: Weeding Forks
It’s weed season. Why make it a fair fight? To defeat the enemy, I prefer a multi-pronged fork that you can push into crevices to tease out roots. A weeding fork can be the best tool to use between...
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Plant Based Diet: 16 Edible Flowers to Grow
The beauty of flowers sometimes makes us believe that appearance is all they have to offer. But like other edible plants, flowers can bring to our plates (and glasses) elements of texture, aroma, and...
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Australian Open: A Romantic Landscape in the Southern Highlands
In the Southern Highlands an hour’s drive south of Sydney, a region known for its vineyards and mild climate, landscape designer Nicholas Bray encountered sweeping views and a low-slung house with...
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10 Easy Pieces: Lightweight Planters
A new planter—even a very big planter—shouldn’t feel like a lifetime commitment. We went searching for lightweight and luggable pots suitable for patios, terraces, and stoops. Here are 10 of our...
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Cow Parsley: An English Weed with Royal Connections
In England, hedgerows froth with a creamy white haze of cow parsley as Anthriscus sylvestris (a cousin of Queen Anne’s lace) rises up from ditches, billowing along roadside verges and lighting up the...
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Swimming Pool of the Week: A Generous Pool for a Modest California Weekend...
When San Francisco landscape architect Loretta Gargan and her partner, the art photographer Catherine Wagner, set out to buy a weekend house in the warmer climes of Marin County just north of the city,...
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Object of Desire: A Handblown Flycatcher from Sweden
Yes, you could make a flytrap from an empty tomato sauce jar or a dish with plastic wrap, but neither of these methods elevates the task of combatting flies in your house. This glass flycatcher,...
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Gardening 101: Sweet Chestnut Tree
Sweet Chestnut, Castanea sativa: “Beauty in Utility” Handsome, long-lived, with texture galore, sweet chestnuts in their several varieties are distinguished trees. They are also abundantly generous, in...
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Gardening 101: Arborvitae
Arborvitae, Thuja: “Tree of Life” Arborvitae trees are North American natives that earned their appreciative nickname (arbor vitae translates to “tree of life” in Latin) a few centuries back when...
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Trending on Remodelista: 10 Scandi-Style Summer Design Ideas to Steal
A visit to their favorite Scandinavian design haunts always surprises and delights the Remodelista editors. New ideas to steal for your own remodel: Swedish Cabinet Knobs Above: Dot cabinet pulls in a...
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Today is the Deadline to Enter Our 2018 Design Awards Contest
This is it; today is the last day to enter the 2018 Gardenista and Remodelista Considered Design Awards. You have until the clock strikes midnight Pacific time tonight—Friday, June 22—to submit your...
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Current Obsessions: Midsommer
This last full weekend of June, we’re savoring the month’s most beautiful blooms and the summer stretched out ahead of us. More on our radar: Above: The gatherings for a romantic early summer garland,...
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Landscaping: 10 Rose Garden Design Ideas
There are more ways to use roses in a garden than there are roses—and as you know, there are many thousands of kinds of climbing, rambling, heirloom, floribunda, hybrid tea, and miniature roses. Are...
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Before & After: A Vintage Florida Cottage and Garden Saved from the...
A few weeks ago a rare thing landed in our in-box: before-and-after photographs of a Florida cottage built in 1935. Before: decrepit, with a sagging roof and a front porch straight out of an episode of...
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Solar Power: French Lanterns Built with Race Cart Technology
What could make more sense than solar-powered outdoor lighting? But sensible too often comes in basic-at-best packaging. Fortunately, a team of designers at French teak furnishings company Les Jardins...
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Gardening 101: Honesty
Honesty, Lunaria: “Silver Dollar” Honesty is honestly loved—for its long performing time, early color, and the handsome shape of the plant. Not to mention its jagged heart-shaped leaves, cruciform...
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11 Garden Ideas to Steal from the Coast of Maine
The rocky coast of Maine is known for being a little weather-worn, with Down East charm: old gray Adirondack chairs, hardy plantings that can stand the salt air, and outdoor showers for washing off the...
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10 Easy Pieces: Downlights
Downlights in a landscape will focus attention exactly where you need it at night, with minimal light pollution from glare and excessive brightness. By pointing toward your feet, downlights make it...
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