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The Top 10 Gardening Apps You Need Now
Perhaps you saw a pair of blue jays conversing in the pear tree and realize it's time to get serious about your spring garden. Or, like my husband, you may have glanced up briefly from your cell phone...
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Last Chance to Vote: Help Gardenista Win a Webby Award
You only have until tomorrow to help Gardenista win a Webby. Our website was nominated in the Lifestyle category. Please register at Webby Awards People's Choice and vote now. Photograph by Aya...
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DIY: A Carpet of Brilliant Sapphire Stars for Your Garden
The first spring at our new home is proving a season of surprises as the plantings of the previous owners reveal themselves. Somewhere after the eager snowdrops and inevitable crocuses, a new favorite...
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The Last Outdoor Furniture You'll Ever Buy
The dirty secret of a lot of outdoor furniture is that it really can't stand up to bad weather. Enter the Slab Collection from Bay Area-based Bevara Design House. Bevara's founders, Stacy and Erik...
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7 Life-Changing Reasons to Dry Laundry Outdoors
On visiting the house of a gardening friend for the first time, I was ooh-ing and aah-ing over the planting around the terrace. There was no grass, just tall, wavy flowers. Beyond the post and rail...
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Weigh In: Would You Hang This Pendant Outdoors Or In?
Let there be light. Spotted on West Elm, a white pendant lamp has a rust-proof frame and is wrapped with weather-resistant cord. We love that its versatility makes it an option for both indoor and...
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Design Sleuth: Instant Spa Bathroom
Blame it on the fact that I live in California, but I believe that every bathing experience should be an opportunity for another spa treatment. Here's a genius idea, via Free People, for instantly...
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Alice Waters' Edible Schoolyard
Driving past the middle school in Berkeley, California, Alice Waters assumed the place was abandoned: graffiti, dead grass, weeds growing through the asphalt. That was 19 years ago. Today Martin Luther...
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World's Most Beautiful Porch Light
Spotted in last Thursday's NY Times House & Home section: a new porch light from Accord, NY-based Deborah Ehrlich. “The idea was a jelly jar,” she told the Times. But this is no ordinary jelly jar...
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Folding Chairs for Spontaneous Summer Dinner Parties
Let's say you have a nice bottle of wine, a sunset, and a few drop-in guests who were "just passing by." What else do you need to make life complete? Two words: folding chairs. Above: New from West...
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The Butcher's Daughter in New York City
Juice bars aren't just for Californians anymore. Thanks to Heather Tierney of the Butcher's Daughter, all of New York is addicted to concoctions of cactus pear, saffron, fennel, and more. After her...
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A Leisurely Stroll Through the SF Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park
The question that occurred to me the other day, as I was huffing and puffing my way up one of the steep switchback trails that crisscross the mountain in my town, was this: Why must a hike be so...
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7 Reasons to Love Spring Like It's a One-Time Thing
The thing that amazes me about spring isn't is that similar magic occurs every year (in fact, even before you were born). We spent the week drinking it all in: Above: Rhododendrons, rhododendrons,...
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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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A Shipping Container Transformed Into the Ultimate Holiday House
Sometimes when I wake in the middle of the night, I obsess about the zillions of shipping containers in the world (when I am not obsessing over bills, tomorrow's commute, or why I am not asleep). What...
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10 Mistakes to Avoid When You Remodel
The day we finally moved into our remodeled house—after the city inspector had tromped through with a picky checklist and the contractors had hauled away their debris mountain and the plumber had been...
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A Miracle Treatment to Make Your Feet Feel Like They Checked Into a Spa
Whether you've been pounding the city pavement to chase after cherry blossoms or crouching in the garden to harvest your garlic scapes, your feet have been doing most of the work. Reward them....
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Wisteria: A Dangerous Beauty (Are You Tempted?)
The charms of wisteria are almost impossible to resist. Lounging languorously over a fence or pergola, she will beckon to you with her heady perfume. Before you know it, her nodding, pendulous blooms...
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A Clever Parisian Balcony Planter Straddles a Railing
Last summer when Francesca spotted this ingenious Parisian balcony planter than hangs over a rail, she had to report (sadly) that it was only for sale in Europe. What a difference a year makes. The...
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The Garden Chronicles: A New York Writer Moves to New Orleans
Across the street from the Garden District mansion where vampire novelist Anne Rice used to live, writer Julia Reed bought a three-story Greek Revival house in New Orleans—barely a year before...
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