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High/Low Marble Humidity Tray
Currently coveting: a marble humidity tray for my bath (something I didn't even know existed); here are two options: Above: Polished Marble Tray; $128 at Terrain. Above: Luna Bathroom Tray; $75 from...
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Required Reading: Vegetable Literacy
This is a cookbook that assumes two things about you, that you like vegetables for the sake of their being vegetables and that you already know how to cook. If you fit into one (or more) of these...
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Tiny Apartment? Hide Potting Soil in Plain Sight
Perhaps it's unconventional to embark on gardening projects in a tiny space, but ever since I potted my first farmers' market geranium last spring, I've been searching for a tidy place to store my...
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The Best Play Structure Ever
A genius plan for some fallen trees: a play structure in Marin, designed by a legendary woodsman. When we featured this oversized jungle gym last summer, we had no idea it would unleash so many strong...
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The Next Generation Vertical Garden: Woolly Pockets All Grown Up
Call it the not-so-woolly pocket. And call me compulsively neat; I prefer the new hard-sided, self-watering instant vertical garden kit to the floppy original from Woolly Pocket. And with a...
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DIY: Fennel Seed Harvesting
To be filed under, "Am I really that thick?" It was not ground breaking, but when a bunch of decorative fennel that I had hung upside down on the front door began dropping seeds, I was in awe. The...
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DIY: A Painted Garden Bed on Wheels
Reclaimed in style: wood sourced from pallets is painted and attached to casters for an instant and inexpensive garden bed. Spotted on the blog of Harvest Textiles, a Melbourne-based screen printing...
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Hike of the Week: A Family Walk in Calistoga
A few weekends ago, when the weather in California's Napa Valley was still chilly but the skies were blue and spring no longer seemed as distant as eternity, I announced to my family that we were...
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DIY: Tiny Clay Pot for Succulents
I know, I know. After an all-day slog to make a padded Silverware Drawer Insert, I vowed less than a week ago never to do another DIY project. But who can resist these tiny clay pots—and they look so...
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Shopper's Diary: Lila B. Design in San Francisco
Sitting behind a large but unassuming rolling door in an old commercial laundry building in the Mission District of San Francisco is Baylor Chapman's studio, Lila B. Design, where she creates...
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DIY: A Secret Hiding Place for Your iPad
Luddites with furtive iPad addictions, take note: Canadian artist Sally Scott, cofounder of Shim Shim Co. and one of the most creative women we know, has created an iPad cover from an old gardening...
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The Week in Review: 10 Signs of Spring
Don't know about you, but we're ready to kick off Outdoor Nap Season. Snowdrops and moss: indulge us for thinking there's a leprechaun behind the tree. Photograph via Southlands Nursery. Is a carpet...
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Steal This Look: Irish Cottage Garden
When I was a girl and slept at my grandmother's house, we stayed up to watch John Wayne movies. This was how, at an impressionable age and a very late hour, I happened for the first time to see...
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Garden Superheroes: 10 Best Problem Solver Plants
Every gardener has a problem. Yours may be a deep pool of shade where nothing blooms. Or a slope that washes away after heavy rain. Or an oak tree with roots that have spread like varicose veins. Mine...
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Paradise Found: A Garage Transformed into a Garden Pavilion
A disused concrete garage becomes an idyllic garden pavilion, courtesy of Italian architects act_romegialli, who conjure up their own vision of Paradise Regained in the Rhaethian alps. It's paradise...
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Pillow Talk: 7 Secrets to Making a Perfect Bed
If you count all the hours we allot to plumping pillows, smoothing sheets, straightening shams, and fussing over how the whole thing looks, we spend as much time on our beds as in them. Yet the...
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An Exotic Flower Shop Where Less Is More
When Japanese architects Nadamoto Yukiko designed Flower Shop Green Life, they drew inspiration from the art of calligraphy, specifically from the void between characters that gives the writing its...
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Back in Stock: Our Favorite Ikea Plant Stand
Last summer I was flipping through a furniture catalog full of outdoor sofas and rugs and rust-resistant lighting, and I pointed a finger at the one product that looked really useful: "That plant...
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Required Reading: How to Recreate Piet Oudolf's Painterly Landscapes
The most amazing thing about the gardens designed by Piet Oudolf is that he uses plants, rather than a palette of oil paints, to create hazy swaths of distant color in his romantic landscapes. The...
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Urban Gardener: Is Unfiltered Tap Water Safe for Plants?
Ask most people who live in New York City about the tap water, and they'll say it's terrific. Carried into the city from a network of reservoirs and controlled lakes that make up a 1,972-square-mile...
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