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Gardening 101: Cleome
Cleome, Cleome hassleriana: “Spider Flower” Long ago, back in the time of flower power and hippie counterculture, I grew my hair long and lived for a while in a shabby fifth-floor walk-up that had few...
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Designer Visit: A ‘Magical Green Pocket Garden’ in San Francisco
Some people would look at a neglected San Francisco side yard filled with an overgrown ramble of scraggly rose bushes and forsaken calla lilies, and feel intimidated. All that hard-packed clay—will we...
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10 Easy Pieces: Folding Camp Chairs
Folding camp furniture was considered such a breakthrough invention that in 1893 the Gold Medal Camp Furniture Co. dispatched salesmen from its headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin, to travel to Chicago...
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Gardening 101: Coneflower
Coneflower, Echinacea: “Prairie Home Companion” When I think of coneflowers I imagine a country hill scattered with flowers, and then I see Laura Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie running...
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Landscaping: 9 Ideas for Curb Appeal in a City Garden
In a city, a front garden may be nothing more than a narrow strip of land to separate a house from the curb. How do you make the most of such a small space? The rationale that UK-based designer Sheila...
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Landscaping 101: How to Kill Poison Ivy
Poison ivy was making enemies as early as the 17th century. Upon discovering it in the New World, Captain John Smith noted in 1623, “The poysoned weed is much in shape like our English Ivy, but being...
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Object of Desire: A French Farmhouse Vase, from Vermont
In Woodstock, Vermont, potters Zoe and James Zilian of Farmhouse Pottery rely on “simple tools and strong beliefs in process and authenticity” to create beautifully useful objects. Their two-handled...
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In the Meadow: Wildflowers from Great Dixter and Scribble & Daub
When greeting card artist Caroline Kent moved to her Sussex cottage in 2010, a local gardener suggested she develop a wildflower meadow on an area of brambly scrubland. For inspiration, she didn’t have...
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Trending on Remodelista: Summer Palette
Update your summer house—or make your regular house feel more like a summer retreat—with a few well-placed upgrades. This week the Remodelista editors discovered design ideas to create a summer...
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Everything You Need to Know About Ornamental Alliums
In their first flush, allium flowers add to the joyous rite of spring. Although they are overtaken in color and height by midsummer flowers, their striking spherical silhouettes continue to hold their...
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Current Obsessions: Heatwave
Onto July—and the Fourth. Kick back with a cold drink and read up on our latest finds. Above: Diving into July. Photograph from Before & After: A Swimming Pool in the Hamptons, Inspired by Spain....
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What to Do in the Garden in July
In the garden July is a month with a split personality: we look back wistfully (at the successes of spring) and forward with trepidation (can this garden be saved, to withstand the August heat that’s...
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True Blue: A Jolt of Color Enlivens a Manhattan Townhouse Garden
When New York-based designer Fawn Galli’s clients asked for a remodel of their Upper East Side townhouse in Manhattan, the request included the overgrown backyard. The family, avid nature lovers,...
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Olive Garden: 10 Favorites in a Soothing Shade of Green
Trend alert: Lately we’ve been noticing garden tools, totes, and togs in soothing shades of dark green (mirroring an interior design trend which the Remodelista editors noted recently). Here we’ve...
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Landscaping: 8 Ideas for Practical Seashell Surfaces
“A great alternative to gravel, crushed clam or oyster can be used on paths, patios, courtyards, driveways, and even bocce ball courts (the shells don’t hold water or imprints from shoes and balls),”...
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Gardening 101: Black-eyed Susans
Black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia: “Prairie Daisy” Black-eyed Susans are native prairie flowers. If you grew up in Illinois, and your kindergarten teacher said to draw a flower, it is likely that you reached...
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10 Easy Pieces: Flagpoles
In 1777, the U.S. Continental Congress made an important design decision: “Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars,...
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Gardening 101: Opium Poppy
Opium Poppy, Papaver somniferum The notoriety of Papaver somniferum, the “sleep-inducing poppy,” is only partly to do with its outlaw family. Opium poppies are grown for their edible seeds and for...
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Swimming Pools: 11 Best Landscape Plants for Water’s Edge
The plants that grow around a swimming pool landscape can add privacy and create a serene, inviting landscape if you choose wisely. But pool environments are notoriously harsh on plants. A heated pool...
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Gardening 101: Pencil Cactus
Pencil Cactus, Euphorbia tirucalli: “Sticks on Fire” I am not usually a person who throws caution to the wind, but despite the numerous warnings about the toxicity of euphorbia’s latex sap, I still...
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