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DIY: Raised Bed Garden Kit
For procastinators (myself included), there is now no excuse not to put in that raised garden bed. Scout Regalia in LA has put together a stylish hardware kit complete with instructions; you supply...
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From Farm to Table at Los Poblanos Inn
Guests at Los Poblanos Inn in Albuquerque can volunteer to work in the 25-acre garden—a farm, really—which produces much of the food on the menu: Photographs via Los Poblanos Inn, except where noted....
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Oakland's Coolest Garden Shop
Crimson Horticultural Rarities is a "rare plant shop and floral design boutique" specializing in unexpected vegetative decor (plus terrariums and taxidermy) Owners Allison Futeral and Leigh Oakies...
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Domestic Science: Iris Hantverk Doormat
An attractive, sturdy doormat is nearly impossible to find. Swedish company Iris Hantverk comes to the rescue once again: Above: While the price tag may seem steep, consider the cost of lesser mats...
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10 Easy Pieces: A Cloud Forest Garden
After years of living abroad and traveling through the misty cloud forests of Central and South America, garden designer David Feix wondered if it would be possible to coax subtropical plants to...
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Editors' Picks: Summer Reading Edition of Links We Love
A peek at the garden porn that's inside The Wilder Quarterly, via You Are the River: The Flora of Iraq: coming soon to a bookstore near you? Via Garden Design. Big praise for a lovely little book...
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Dee's Story: From Debris Pile to Edible Garden in Four Months
In Litchfield County, Connecticut, Dee Salomon and Rob Norman bought a property on which there once stood an art school. With the building long gone, the old foundation wall was the site of a debris...
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Domestic Science: An Herb Seed Kit
I find it almost irresistible, in a science-lab-at-home kind of way, to open a slim metal tin to find lidded containers of seeds inside. The Herb Seed Kit from PLANT in Brooklyn, with ten varieties to...
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Best of Brooklyn: The Winner Is...
There is jubilation on Lincoln Road in the normally quiet neighborhood of Lefferts Gardens: The block between Bedford and Rogers Avenues has for the second time been named the Greenest Block in the...
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From Farm to...Brooklyn
Much of the food on the menu at Parish Hall in Brooklyn comes from a two-acre farm in the northeastern Catskills. At Goatfell Farm, permaculture methods are employed: fertilizers, mulch, and soil...
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Woolly Pockets Invade a Victorian Glass Palace
San Francisco's very proper Conservatory of Flowers, the oldest public conservatory in the western hemisphere, has added a 21st century touch to its collection of carnivorous plants, its rare tropical...
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10 Easy Pieces from Dee's Kitchen Garden
How did Dee Salomon manage in only four months' time to transform a debris pile next to her barn in Connecticut into a flourishing kitchen garden? Good planning, teamwork, and the perfect components:...
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5 Favorites: Ultimate Outdoor Kitchens
Is the outdoor kitchen the new outdoor shower? Another out-of-reach fantasy for those of us who live in colder climes? There is something wonderfully irreverent about carrying out one of life's daily...
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DIY: Cobalt Blue Planters (Houseboat Optional)
When I moved four years ago from New York City to a houseboat in Sausalito, CA, I felt totally qualified to have my own floating edible garden. On the East Coast, I had installed rooftop container...
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Mystery Revealed: How to Grow Things in Perfectly Straight Rows
Mark out straight lines on paths and garden beds with two pegs and a piece of twine: Above: A Pegit, which consists of two beech pegs and twine (natural color, not green), is $30 from Ancient...
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A Modern Shaker Garden
In the rolling hills of racehorse country outside of Lexington, KY there sits a remarkable monument to the ingenuity of the human race. It is the restored remains of a village built in the early 1800s...
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Picking Fruit the Easy Way
Forget unstable ladders, questionable tactics like your child's lacrosse stick (I've seen my neighbor try this method, only to send lemons off into other yards), or waiting for fruit to drop with a...
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Driveway Fruit Tarts: A Love Story
The first time I met Julie, I brought a Driveway Fruit Tart to her house for dinner. "I still remember," Julie said yesterday. "You remember when we met?" I asked, flattered. "No, I remember the...
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DIY: Hanging Garden
We've been charmed by hanging string gardens ever since we featured some that Sarah spotted in a shop window in Amsterdam last summer. So we were thrilled to learn, via Craftzine, that it's easy to...
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DIY: Flower Press
When I was little, my aunt would mail me pressed violets in letters (remember letters?) and yes, I still keep them in a cardboard box stored on a high shelf. Carl Linneaus said every botanist should...
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