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Cast Your Vote: Gardenista Has Been Nominated for a Webby Award
We're so pleased—make that thrilled! As we approach our first birthday, Gardenista has been nominated for a Webby Award. This must be what it feels like to get an Oscar nomination at age 9 (except...
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Steal This Look: The Perfect Potting Shed
If there were support groups for garage abusers, I'd be a regular at meetings: "Hello, my name is Michelle, and I have many cardboard boxes with mysterious contents, a stack of broken beach chairs,...
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5 Favorites: The World's Most Sought-After Tulips
The mania that had Holland in its clutches four hundred years ago, sending the price for a single tulip bulb higher than $2,000, seems totally reasonable to me. Look at one in bloom, and tell me you...
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Required Reading: The Beautiful Edible Garden
This is not just another book about how to grow as much of your own food as possible. In fact, the authors of The Beautiful Edible Garden think you may be trying too hard. Do you feel overwhelmed when...
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A Portable House in CA Farm Country, Tower Included
The Yolo Cabin is a modern, simple, and portable home that allows its owners to literally pick it up to move it to a different corner of their property. The back story: Weary of their existing home on...
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Steal This Look: A Mod LA Patio with Twinkly String Lights
We've been admiring actress Jennifer Carpenter's Laurel Canyon patio for a while now; from the strand lighting casually laced through the overhanging trees to the eclectic mix of outdoor classics....
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Pinterest Contest Winner: The Ultimate Garden Shed
Calling all pinners and daydreamers: We have a winner in our "Visions of Gardening Sheds" contest: Congratulations to Karla Cyr. From open shelving to Wellies lined up in a row, the images on her...
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Consider the Lilac
What I remember about the year my mother was a Girl Scout leader was that she went to the yard and cut armloads of lilacs after she got roped into making the centerpieces for the troop's thank-you...
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Garden Must-Have: Woven Willow Fences and Trellises
Before big garden centers and mega-stores, gardeners made fences and plant supports out of what was at hand: bent wood. Flexible willow, hazel, and other pliable twigs can be fashioned into a...
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Hike of the Week: Diamond Hill in Ireland, Wild Sheep and Goats Included
Diamond Hill is magical. You can see it just about everywhere in Letterfrack, looming over the village with a watchful, ancient eye. And last summer, while traveling through Galway, we decided to hike...
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A House Plant You Can't Kill: Mother in Law's Tongue
Your mother-in-law's tongue belongs under the bathroom sink, and you can tell her designer Chad McPhail said so. Or, for the sake of politesse, call it Sansevieria laurentii. This sturdy house plant,...
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Supermarket Tulips Transformed: A Ten Dollar Bouquet
There are benefits to supermarket flowers, the first being that they make grocery shopping feel less onerous and the second being that they're on the affordable end of the price spectrum. At $8 a...
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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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10 Reasons to Reach for The Sky
We flew to the East Coast this week and learned that sometimes the weather is better in New York City than in California. Seriously. It was so spring-like that Midtown office workers got giddy,...
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Throw It, Grow It: London's Guerrilla Gardeners
When Richard Reynolds moved into a tower block in central London's Elephant and Castle district, he was not intending to become a guerrilla gardener. He simply decided to take a DIY approach to the...
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The Ultimate Guesthouse and Garden Shed, in a Shipping Container
Can you imagine living in a shipping container? We can—at least in this one. Jim Poteet of Poteet Architects created a guesthouse out of a container in San Antonio, Texas, maintaining the essence of...
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The Truth About Indoor Citrus Trees (Hint: They Belong Outdoors)
My neighbor Bill Stock has an amazing garden—30-year-old roses and towering hollyhocks grown from seed he brought from Monet's garden after a visit to Giverny. But the other night at a dinner party...
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DIY: A Beauty Mask Made from Flowers
I am fussy about what I put on my face. If I can't pronounce the ingredients on the back of a bottle, I get nervous in the pharmacy aisle. So I took matters into my own hands with a do-it-yourself...
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Shopper's Diary: Head Down an Alley, for Tinsmiths of Ledbury
Those seeking out Tinsmiths, in the market town of Ledbury, Herefordshire, should turn down an alley off the High Street and walk with some determination to the end, before encountering a kind of...
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Design Sleuth: Corrugated Zinc Planter
My zinc planter is the perfect size and color to host my favorite purple-tinged succulents in a tabletop container garden. I don't remember where I got it, but the other day I spotted an identical...
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