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Seed Bombs: Make Gardens, Not War
Do we encourage illicit cultivation? Bet on it. We recently reported on the efforts of a cadre of guerrilla gardeners whose mission is to beautify ugly, untended public spaces—vacant lots, busy...
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Family Camp: Nettly Wood Compound
Off the coast of Washington state, a 25-acre family compound on Decatur Island feels like summer camp: there's whale watching, and sailing, and hiking, and, in the distance, views of the rest of the...
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An Edible Garden on Wheels
I love a garden I can push around. Thank you, Santa Monica-based FoodMap Design, for a planter on wheels—easy to move indoors if the weather is bad or just to the far end of the patio, to get a few...
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Big Serenity in Big Sur
Let’s face it, L.A. is not too pretty. You have to love mid-Century in a sick, weird way not to recognize that the city is home to some of the ugliest spots in the world. I’m thinking of Melrose and...
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Mini Mushroom Farms
After a childhood spent being warned against wild and possibly poisonous mushrooms, it's no wonder I still have an arm's-length relationship with fungi. But mini mushrooms farms could change that:...
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Gift for the Gardener: A Hard-Working Stool
Here's one to add to the gift-giving list for the gardener in your life (which may well be you): a gardening stool complete with its own tool bag. Spotted on Materialicious. Above: The Gardener...
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Rising from the Ashes: Deyrolle in Paris
The last time I was in Paris I made a pilgrimage to see the safari-worthy collection of dead wild game at Deyrolle, I wondered why the world's most famous taxidermy store doesn't charge admission;...
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Little Cargo Container in the Big Woods
Last year a real-life county parks department in Washington state sponsored a contest that sounded like just the sort of thing Amy Poehler would dream up on Parks and Rec: Transform a surplus cargo...
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Required Reading: Wilderness Route Finder
When writer Calvin Rutstrum's Wilderness Route Finder was published in 1967, it was described in the New York Times, rather drily as, "a camping guide." That was putting mildly. Chapter One of the...
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5 Favorites: Life-Changing Garage Doors
Why have we never taken a moment to consider the beauty of the mechanism that lifts the separate panels of an overhead garage door? There's really no faster—or elegant—way to eliminate the standoff...
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Editors' Picks: A Jolly Green Giant, an Inviting Dinner Party, and Other...
Why not let a fiddle-leaf fig tree dominate your dressing room? Via Door Sixteen. How to Throw a No-Fuss, No-Nonsense Friday Night Dinner Party, via Food 52. Still life with garden, via The Style...
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Handmade Deck Chair by Gallant & Jones
Spotted at the new online store Lin Morris, these deck chairs from Gallant & Jones. Hand crafted in Vancouver, the oak framed chairs come in a choice of fabrics, but we are particularly taken with...
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Required Reading: Drinking the Summer Garden
With chapters titles like Wicked Libations and Healthy(-ish) Thirst Quenchers, Gayla Trail's new pocketbook Drinking the Summer Garden has just rocketed to the top of my summer reading list. Author,...
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DIY: Succulent Table
Admired recently: a clever DIY project from Matti and Megan, the self-proclaimed "plant nerds" of Far Out Flora. With a few key ingredients (salvaged table legs, a used shipping pallet, and a...
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Modern Sculptures for the Garden: Terra Trellis
There’s no question: Every garden is a work of art. But when you add a sophisticated structure with a bolt of color, it has the potential to go from a simple sketch to a modern watercolor. This runs...
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Required Reading: The Plant Journal
When Barcelona-based Cristina Merino was dreaming up the biannual Plant Journal publication, she was responding to the recent renewed interest of artists and designers in plants and all things...
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Inside the Secret Gardens of Venice, California
In Southern California, some of the best gardens are off limits—except for one day of the year. Here's a glimpse behind the gates in Venice: Photographs by Mimi Giboin, for Gardenista. Above: A dry...
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Design Sleuth: Pavers and Gravel
I know an architect who aspires to be the Ernest Hemingway of architecture; using simple materials, effectively. Here’s an outdoor garden solution of which she would approve. When Brazilian...
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A Quick and Easy Summer Thirst Quencher
Looking to quench summer thirst? Try this easy hibiscus and lime drink. In my current obsession with hibiscus flowers, we have been drinking hibiscus and lime all summer long (even in England, where...
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A Garden That Thrives on Adversity
On a broad plateau in West Texas, the challenge was to create a windbreak and to shade an exposed ranch house sited on a slope. The solution, from Austin-based Ten Eyck Landscape Architects, involved...
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