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10 Easy Pieces: Garden Trellises
Whether you've got your sights set on a blush-pink New Dawn climbing rose or you're hankering for a fragrant pop of yellow in the form of a Graham Thomas, we've got the trellises you'll need to train...
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The 7 Best Climbing Roses for Your Garden
Standing tall in my back garden is a large crab apple tree that I disdain but for one attribute: it is the best climbing tree around. I'm not talking about for my children, rather for my gorgeous,...
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DIY: Rose Petal Ice Cubes
Remember walking around with a pink-stained tongue all summer long? I don't advocate the return of Kool-Aid to your diet, but if you keep a tray of DIY rose petal ice cubes in the freezer, you will be...
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A Walk in the Neighborhood with Olivia Rae James
In summertime, is there anything better than an evening walk? In Charleston, South Carolina, photographer Olivia Rae James strolls past antebellum mansions and the rampant jasmine in South of Broad,...
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10 Easy Pieces: Indoor/Outdoor Tool Sets
In the spirit of Father's Day, we've rounded up our ten favorite tool sets—from barbecue tools to woodworking and housecleaning—because a set of beautiful tools is that much more inspiring to work...
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Send Us Your Indoor Garden Pics
There are only three days left to submit your photos to the Gardenista Considered Design Awards, so grab your iPhones and snap some photos of your indoor plants and flowers. The rewards are great—five...
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DIY: Braided Rose Pillars
The best way to get to know a rose is eye to eye, and this is perhaps the reason that England's great gardener Gertrude Jekyll trained roses to grow up and around pillars. If you keep them pruned and...
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Fig and Yarrow: Rose and Vanilla Lip Blush
When we developed the name for this week's issue—American Beauty—we were really talking about roses. But I don't think it's too much of a stretch to also share the lip tint I'm currently coveting. It's...
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Who We're Loving Lately, on Instagram
If there's one social media platform that seems perfectly suited to the garden lovers among us, we think it's Instagram. We've been trying our hand at the craft lately—snapping photos of neighborhood...
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Ask the Expert: 10 Tips for Wedding Flowers from Kate Middleton's Florist
It's the height of wedding season, so we asked Royal Wedding floral designer Shane Connolly to share his top ten tips for making sure the flowers look as good as the bride: Shane Connolly is one of the...
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The World's Best Rose Wallpaper
Roses do not last long enough in the garden. I know you agree. June may come and go, but you and I would like to be gazing fondly on pink velvety petals in December, as well. I believe this to be the...
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Hotel Visit: Rent a Wing of Wiveton Hall in Norfolk
East Anglia is a bit different from the rest of England. Out on a limb and untroubled by motorways, it leads nowhere. Should you find yourself marooned on the north coast of Norfolk you could do worse...
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Flower Arranging 101, or Lessons in Humility
When it comes to making things, knowing when I'm in over my head has never been my strong suit. I love the thrill of a new challenge and when given the option between doing something myself and relying...
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Design Sleuth: A Very Green Garage
When it comes to improvement projects, a first step for many renovators is to try to remove invasive vines, but for Act Romegialli Architects in Italy, the goal was just the opposite. For the...
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Summery Pressed Seaweed Prints
As a native Cape Codder, I've always been fond of seaweed. So when I recently ran across designer Karen Robertson's pressed seaweed DIY on Garden Design, I had to give it a try. Above: Any project that...
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How Did I Kill My Lavender?
I have every reason to be a good gardener. I grew up planting plants, pulling weeds, watering roses, mowing the lawn. I studied environmental science in school, led tours of an organic farm for years,...
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Last Chance to Send In Your Photos
Entries to our Considered Design Awards close at midnight tonight, so send us your photos for a chance to win! Enter our free contest by uploading images in the following categories: Best Edible...
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Le Vie en Rose: 10 Tips for Seeing the World Through Rose Colored Glasses
We spent the week stopping to Smell the Roses, which prepared us to do the same this weekend. Anyone need a Rose Petal Ice Cube to freshen your cocktail? Above: Photograph by @caroline_odonnell....
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In SF, Scott Lewis Landscape Architecture Turns A Small City Backyard Into a...
"We had this idea of making a green cube in the back of the garden," says San Francisco-based landscape architect Scott Lewis. And as you can see, it was an excellent idea. In a small city backyard,...
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Wendy's Secret Garden in Sydney, Australia
Wendy's Secret Garden is not exactly secret: It's open to everybody. But it's not exactly public either. The reclaimed space in Sydney's Lavender Bay is owned by a railway company and was rescued from...
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