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Editors' Picks: Summer in the City, Dwell in LA, and Other Links We Love
Calling all cats: There's a surprise for you under the Manhattan Bridge, via 66SquareFeet: And here's something your little mouse friends: a fort made of cheese, via Casa Yellow. Gracie Mansion gets a...
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High Wire Act: Floating Florals at Blue Hill Stone Barns
We notice floating, mid-air gardens everywhere these days—including the flying centerpieces created by Laureen Barber, an owner of the sustainable-food mecca Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York's...
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Required Reading: The Private Oasis
Daisy Buchanan would look very comfortable lounging against the backdrop of an Edmund Hollander landscape. It's difficult, in fact, to look at one of the many sprawling, luxurious estate gardens that...
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High/Low: The $85 Tomato
During the nine and a half months of the year when they're out of season, I would pay anything for one delicious, ripe, homegrown tomato. In season, however, tomato values plummet faster than the...
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DIY: An Alternative to Macrame?
French stylist and designer Caroline Gomez has the solution to hanging houseplants at varying heights: minimal leather planters with linen cord to suspend your next philodendron, croton, or...
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5 Favorites: Plants for the Bath
The best room in the house (for your plants) is the bath. Houseplants perform well with natural light and shower mist; as an added bonus, they also purify the air and bring a touch of green indoors....
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Vertical Gardens Made With—
How clever! Admired in the garden of the Stable Cafe in San Francisco recently: artful arrangements of painted shutters sprouting succulents. Lila B. Design, a San Francisco-based floral and garden...
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Steal This Look: Shady Secrets of an Expert Gardener
Shade is the dirty secret of every garden. We all have it, so before things deteriorate further, let's get the professional help we need to face the situation like mature adults. Hello, Bart Ziegler....
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Self-Watering Terracotta Planter by Joey Roth
Good news for the slackers among us: a self-watering planter. Designer Joey Roth's self-watering terracotta planter does require filling with water once in a while but that's it. Plants are placed in...
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Required Reading: Central Park, An Anthology
On any given day, it will take less than three hours to walk the perimeter of New York's 843-acre Central Park, as I did on Sunday. To see it all, however, will take a lifetime. Among the sights:...
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DIY: Instant Hanging Shelves for Houseplants
Recently spotted from Byggstudio, a creative consultancy in Sweden: standard wooden trellises and DIY sawhorse tables display plants in a pop-up vintage plant shop. Founded in 2006 by Hanna Nilsson...
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Meet Me In The Alley: Picnic in Central London
We'll call it an alley revolution: A neglected walkway in central London transforms into a bright, child-friendly destination during a weekend of mingling, dancing, and art. Located in the city's...
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A Drinks Cooler with Rustic Appeal
An idea that falls into the "why didn't we think of that" category: picnic baskets lined with insulating Styrofoam and rattan baskets with galvanized liners to keep food and drinks cold all afternoon:...
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NYC Rooftop Garden Roundup
The ultimate luxury for city dwellers? A balcony, a terrace, a rooftop garden—no matter how diminutive—for cultivating a bit of green in the urban cityscape. Above: A terrace garden in Chelsea...
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A Shady Solution: Sails as Awnings
When temperatures rise, awnings are an essential weapon in the cooling arsenal—blocking direct sun and creating zones of shade. The best development we've seen in a while is the tensioned shade sail,...
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A Jewel Box Townhouse Garden
The typical city lot in San Francisco is 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep. Put a townhouse on this. How much space is left for a garden? "You have to design every inch," says Scott Lewis, of San...
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A Pop-Up Roof Garden in London
What happens if an impromptu pop-up garden doesn't ever pop back down? The Dalston Roof Park in northeast London's Hackney neighborhood shows no signs of disappearing; it's in its third summer of...
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5 Favorites: House Plants To Simplify Your Life
A beautiful potted plant generally provokes the same wary reaction from me as the sight of a baby in a stroller: lovely, but looks like a lot of work to keep happy. Not so, according to Real Simple...
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Required Reading: The Edible Balcony
I used to live in a basement flat near London's King's Cross, with a little courtyard. It was full of pots and was lovely really, except for two things. It was overlooked by hundreds of people (there...
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Editors' Picks: We Heart Gardens, Vita's Bedroom, and Other Links We Love
Strange but (happily) true: there are least 10 heart-shaped wonders of nature, via Listphobia. Above: Coming in at No. 7 on Listphobia, a heart-shaped garden in Waltrop, Germany. Once upon a time,...
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