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Current Obsessions: Artifacts of Summer
What the Gardenista team is noting, this last weekend of July: Above: A height-of-summer project worth revisiting: see DIY: Pressed Seaweed Prints for instructions. Only a few days left to vote for...
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Vote for the Best Professional Landscape in Our Design Awards
Our judges have chosen the finalists, now you choose the winners. Vote for your favorite projects in our 2018 Considered Design Awards, once per day in each of the Gardenista and Remodelista...
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Genius Garden Ideas: 10 Landscapes with Olive Trees
If you live in a climate warm enough to make an olive tree happy, consider your landscape dilemma solved. One olive tree, dramatically situated, is all it takes to inspire awe—and poetic allusions to...
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Gardening 101: Lupine
Lupine, Lupinus: “Fine Old Garden Flower” Miss Rumphius was the lupine lady, as you probably remember from the picture book by Barbara Cooney. She lived in Maine, in a little house by the sea, and...
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Garden Visit: A Revolutionary Landscape in Concord, MA
Heading out of town in Concord, Massachusetts, one passes The Old Manse, an imposing clapboard building which in the 18th century witnessed the start of the Revolutionary War at the battle of North...
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11 Garden Ideas to Steal from Russia
A summerhouse on a plot of land, to visit every weekend while wearing country garb—this is not the vision of New Yorkers escaping to Connecticut but of Russians, during the time of Tolstoy and Chekhov....
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Vote for the Best Amateur Garden in Our Design Awards
Our judges have chosen the finalists, now you choose the winners. Vote for your favorite projects in our 2018 Considered Design Awards, once per day in each of the Gardenista and Remodelista...
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10 Easy Pieces: Potato Growing Kits
Never mind what you’ve heard; you don’t need to hill or hoe potatoes. With a potato growing kit—which consists mainly of a waterproof bag and potting soil—you can grow the underground root vegetable...
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10 Best Landscape Design Software Programs of 2018
Back in the analog era, if you wanted to DIY a plan for a garden or landscape, you pulled out a pencil, a ruler, a plant book, that folder of inspirational magazine clippings of yards you love, a sheet...
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Tomorrow Is the Last Day to Vote in the 2018 Considered Design Awards
Tomorrow is the last day to make your voice heard in our 2018 Gardenista Considered Design Awards. Vote now for your favorite finalists across six categories, and don’t forget to vote on Remodelista...
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Gardening 101: Hakone Grass
Hakone Grass, Hakonechloa: “Japanese Forest Grass” Think of it as Cousin Itt style for the garden. Low-growing clumps of Hakonechloa macra grass add floppy, shaggy style to a landscape. Native to...
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Rethinking Honeysuckle: Casual Vines for Charming Arrangements
The casual personality of honeysuckle flowers and vines is ideal for making bouquets at home. Unless you live at Buckingham Palace, flowers are an accessory, not an art piece. Stiff arrangements with...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Interior Design Ideas to Steal from the Tropics
Embracing the heat, the Remodelista editors were inspired by retro-modern tropical design ideas this week. Here are five to steal. Split-Bamboo Blinds Above: A blind with the Chirag pattern. “Accurate...
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Current Obsessions: The Far Reaches
On our agendas: an upcoming book signing, a guided plant hike, and a UK plant swap. Read on. Above: Over on Remodelista: a pilgrimage to the country estate of architect (and father of Tropical...
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Edible Gardens: Black Raspberries, America’s Lost Fruit
My first encounter with black raspberries—native to eastern North America—was at farmers’ market in Sante Fe one summer, years ago. I was stopped in my tracks by blue boxes filled with unfamiliar and...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Provence
For most of us, Provence is a dreamy holiday location. But for gardeners in any arid climate that mimics the dry earth and sun-baked summers of the South of France, the region’s landscapes are a rich...
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Tiny Bouquets: 8 Ideas for Floral Arrangements in Miniature Vases
A miniature vase can have maximum impact. Read on for New York City–based events designer David Stark’s eight top tips for creating tiny bouquets that make a big impression. Photography courtesy of...
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Announcing the Winners of the 2018 Gardenista Considered Design Awards
We’re thrilled with the results of our fifth Gardenista Considered Design Awards contest and want to extend a huge thanks to everyone who entered and voted. Stay tuned; over the coming weeks, we’ll...
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12 Ideas to Steal from Fairy Gardens
If fairy gardens are magic—and make no mistake, they are—it is in large part because miniature worlds can be so easily chaperoned. A tiny universe can be controlled from above, with twig cottages laid...
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10 Easy Pieces: Miniatures for Fairy Gardens
Fairy garden designs are limited only by imagination. To get you started, we’ve rounded up a few favorite furnishings and supplies made of natural materials. For inspiration, see 12 Design Ideas to...
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