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10 Irresistible Activities That Almost Kept Us From Writing This Post
Forgive us our dye-stained fingers. With Easter coming early this year, we've been in a DIY frenzy this week, and we've got the robin's egg blue residue on our keyboards to prove it. We're so excited...
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Germany's Rent-A-Gardens
On the outskirts of almost every German city is a hobbit town, with miniature gingerbread houses and vegetable gardens on tiny plots of land behind picket fences. To call Germany's urban gardeners...
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A Secret Garden: Glorious Springtime in the Berkshires
We love to peek inside readers' secret gardens, and over the past few months we've seen amazing things: giant topiary ladies wearing Toulouse Lautrec bustles, an enchanted meadow of wildflowers, even...
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7 Secrets for Living with a Flat-Screen TV, Cord Control Edition
I don't have anything against the idea of TV; in fact I consider TV to be the new novel. When I power-watch three or four—OK, five—episodes, I get the same woozy, drugged-out high as from being lost...
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Design Sleuth: René Redzepi's Kitchen Herbs
Let's be realistic: if you sow all your basic culinary herbs outside, through the gate, round the back of the house to the garden, you're never going to use them. Even the master forager who founded...
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Our New Obsession: Colored Bottles as Vases
Thumbing through the new spring catalog from Dutch housewares shop HK Living, we fell for watercolor-clear jugs and bottles grouped together as vases. Four colors, three sizes; that's all you need to...
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A Garden in the Sky: Test Tube Chandeliers from Poland
Ever since I spotted this garden in the sky on Design Milk, I've been dreaming about a test tube chandelier from Polish designer (and Etsy seller) Pani Jurek. Jurek graduated from the Academy of Fine...
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A Writing Shed in the Garden
Recipe for happiness: Take one ramshackle hut filled with spider webs and asbestos. Replace with a light-filled work studio with full-height retractable doors. Here's how: In London's north central...
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Urban Gardener: A Greenhouse for Your Balcony
We've made no secret of our obsession with Finnish company Kekkilä's compact lean-to greenhouse, perfect for an urban balcony. There's something about the glass crank-open roof and the adjustable...
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10 Easy Pieces: Floral Scissors for Softer Stems
The gardener's toolbox is incomplete without a pair of floral scissors, which serve a different function from your standard pruners. Floral scissors or herb snips (however you prefer to call them)...
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Pinterest Contest: Show Us Your Fantasy Garden Shed
We're serious daydreamers here at Gardenista. I try not to get mad at myself about it, even if I end up writing a post well after dinner or with the crowing roosters in the early morning (there are no...
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DIY: Transform Terra Cotta Pots Into Instant Antiques
Last year's terra cotta pots look great. So do last century's. The problem can be new ones—virgin terra cotta can look so, well, orange. Your herbs deserve better. So we were excited when we spotted a...
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A Manhattan Rooftop Garden with a Panoramic View
Urban living is all about making the most of available space, especially outdoor space. Ever wonder what's up there on New York City's rooftops? To create an elegantly simple rooftop garden in...
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DIY: An Easy Way to Grow Celery from Its Root
Only recently have I begun to appreciate the celery stalk—adding it to soups and grinding it down into a salt—as my new kitchen secret for adding subtle bits of flavor. So when I spotted this...
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10 Easy Pieces: Outdoor Folding Chairs
What I love about warm weather: guests show up at a moment's notice. Sometimes it's easier to feed them than to seat them, though, unless you have a secret stash of folding chairs—the...
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The English Gardener: Grow the Delicious Foods You Never Find in Shops
"I wish we'd stop growing potatoes, carrots, and onions," says my friend Mark Diacono. "Life is too short to grow unremarkable food." Diacono, head gardener at River Cottage HQ (and multi...
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Mood Lighting: An Outdoor Cord That Fits a Favorite Bulb
Maybe you dream of bathing your backyard palm tree in a red glow with up-lighting. Perhaps you go so far as to walk around the house saying, "Wouldn't that look awesome and tropical?" Or maybe that's...
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10 Favorites: Ultimate Outdoor Kitchens
There is something wonderfully irreverent about carrying out one of life's daily activities without a roof over your head; from rustic to modern, here are ten favorite outdoor kitchens where we would...
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Now You See It, Now You Don't: The Amazing Folding Table
Even the smallest apartment has room for a wall hook, and that's all the storage space you need for this two-seater folding balcony bistro table: Above: A heavy duty green Steel Balcony Folding Table...
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DIY: A Fire Escape-Style Garden
Fire escapes are romantic places; just ask Tony and Maria. Add a splash of greenery in the form of potted plants, and an eyesore becomes an urban oasis. But remember that New York City law requires a...
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