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DIY: Potted Indoor Citrus Trees
I am always so suspicious of those lovely photos of potted indoor lemon trees, placed strategically next to a sofa or a bedside table—heavy with fruit and looking as if they were hauled indoors just...
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10 Easy Pieces: Editors' Favorite Gardening Books
Gardening books are too often put to pasture in the reference section of personal libraries. Think again. Our collection personal favorites not only offer practical advice, but also fall into the...
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Secret Gardens: The Importance of Privet
Southampton, known as a haven for the wealthy and famous on the eastern shore of Long Island, is the oldest English settlement in New York. In 1640 British settlers from Lynn, MA arrived seeking...
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Dried Hydrangeas, Two Ways
Here's how hydrangeas in a vase won me over. I looked at mine one day and realized they were 18 months old and none the worse for wear. Nothing could be easier than drying them. Two simple...
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Seed Source: The Homestead Squash Seeds
Planning to add members of the cucurbit family—that would be pumpkins, squash, or gourds, by the way— to the vegetable garden this year? Look no further. We've found a company whose sole mission is to...
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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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Required Reading: Farm Anatomy
With whimsical illustrations and an almanac's worth of miscellany, Farm Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of Country Life is the result of designer Julia Rothman's quest to understand an...
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Foraging with the Vicomte
When food rationing was imposed on Britain at the beginning of 1940, no one knew that it would last for 14 years. A cookbook with the prescient title They Can't Ration These came out that year, and it...
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DIY: A Grapefruit Birdfeeder for Feathered Friends
I had no idea it was possible to become addicted to bird watching—until it happened to me. When my husband and I recently visited his family in western New York, my father-in-law had assembled an...
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Shopper's Diary: Oliver Gustav's Garden Antiquaries
At Oliver Gustav's moody antique garden shop in Copenhagen, you are as likely to find formally pruned topiaries and busts of the philosophers as a basket of crocus bulbs that got tired of waiting for...
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Required Reading: Roots
A year ago our family adopted a diet invented in the 1920s that bans refined sugar, all grains, and starchy vegetables whose carbs are deemed too complex. At first we were satisfied with our meat,...
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Hike of the Week: The View from Topanga State Park
Full disclosure: I tend to be a "grass is always greener” type of person. While I live in Santa Monica, one of the most beautiful places in the world, hardly a day goes by that I don’t long to be...
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Garden Stories, Told in Paper
Taking in the body of Cecilia Levy's work, here's what I see. It's autumn. Under a silver sky the withered leaves of a garden past its prime congregate in a corner as if try to gain their freedom over...
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Ask the Landscape Designer: Transforming a Tangle into an Elegant Entry
The first time they saw the Spanish-style stucco house on a quiet side street, LA-based landscape designers Joel Lichtenwalter and Ryan Gates of Grow Outdoor Design didn't really see it. They...
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Domestic Dispatches: The Death of the Dining Room
I think we can all agree by now that the most worthless space in a conventional house is the dining room. I have lived in seven houses, and in all of them, this was a sad and misused place, a room you...
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A Vertical Garden for the Urban Dweller
A vertical modular garden funded by Kickstarter and founded by two designers versed in lifestyle product design (Williams-Sonoma is a client), first spotted garnering accolades at Dwell on Design:...
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High/Low: Mirrors in the Garden
It's pretty much confirmed, UK textile designer Neisha Crosland is a one-woman garden show. At the moment, we're admiring her use of mirrors in her garden and have sourced two options to achieve a...
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Urban Gardener: A Sliver of a Greenhouse for a Small Space
Imagine having a window onto spring all winter long: that’s the promise of a lean-to greenhouse, just four feet wide and sited alongside an exterior wall. When it’s installed to frame a window or even...
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5 Favorites: Iron Boot Scrapers
Sometimes doormats just aren't enough to tackle the mud that gardening boots love to collect. Iron boot scrapers are a wet-weather partner for the doormat, doing the dirty work so the mat can perform...
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A Tropical Paradise, Attainable by Subway
Spending an hour or two inside a steamy conservatory in the middle of winter is one of the more rejuvenating ways I can think of to pass an afternoon. The thrill of warm air on your cheeks and the...
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