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Steal This Look: Dry Garden Tablescape from Local Milk
The menu at a recent dinner party hosted by Beth Kirby of Local Milk sounded delectable—stinging nettle and ricotta ravioli, yes please—but it was the tablescape she created with Tennessee textile...
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Cactus as Glamorous Privacy Fencing
Forget bamboo. For privacy fencing, consider a centuries-old Mexican method: plant cacti. We spotted a cactus privacy wall at El Montero, a south-of-the-border restaurant where you can dine al fresco...
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Colorful Concrete Planters by Mary Martha Collins
Admired in an SF urban garden by landscape architect Scott Lewis: a cheery red concrete planter by Mary Martha Collins, a California-based artist who specializes in vibrantly hued concrete vessels...
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A Texas Garden Where the Rare and the Endangered Flourish
An hour's drive north of Houston is Peckerwood Garden, with seven acres of rare and vanishing plants—many of them desert specimens that architecture professor John G. Fairey brought home from the high...
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Dining on Succulents: Purslane Salad with Watermelon
Last week, we asked New York photographer and nutritionist Rebecca Baust of The Daily Muse to hit the greenmarkets in search of one of our favorite edible greens: purslane. In a genius move, she paired...
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10 Easy Drought and Pollution Tolerant Perennials for the Concrete Jungle
I remember summers in New York. Whenever any of my entourage managed to score a piece of outdoor real estate, it immediately became a community garden with all of us. We chipped in with the buying,...
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Hijo in Austin: A Garden Shop in a Shed at Jardineros Nursery
The new version of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" might as well be the "Six Degrees of Liz Lambert," at least if you're living in the Southwest. Good things happen when the Texas hotelier's friends meet....
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Vote for the Best Edible Garden in the Gardenista Considered Design Awards
Follow the link below to vote for the Gardenista finalists in the Best Edible Garden category, submitted by readers and design professionals. You can vote once a day in each category now through July...
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Spanish-Style Window Grilles and Registers
On a recent visit to the historic Spanish Colonial Revival-style Biltmore Hotel in Santa Barbara, I was enchanted by so many of the architectural details. My favorite? The sculptural and subtly ornate...
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The View is Grand: Enchanted Rock in the Texas Hills
When we reached the Hill Country on our recent New York City Audubon Society tour of Texas, locals advised us to make a stop at a park known as the Enchanted Rock State Natural Area. The eponymous...
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Required Reading: Beth Chatto's 5 Favorite Flowers for a Gravel Garden
The first thing that strikes me on entering garden designer Beth Chatto's gravel garden in Essex early in the morning is the scent of herbs. Thyme? Marjoram? Sage? They are here in abundance because...
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Expert Advice: 10 Things You Need to Know to Survive in the Desert
I'm spoiled in Northern California: even though I'm a novice gardener, every experience I've had with a container, a raised bed, or a small plot has been relatively easy. Since I recently finished...
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Vote for the Best Architectural Garden Feature in the Gardenista Considered...
Follow the link below to vote for the Gardenista finalists in the Best Architectural Garden Feature category, designed by professionals. You can vote once a day in each category now through July 15. On...
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In the News: Top 5 Remodelista Posts of the Week
Remodelista went south of the border last week; here are the top five posts: Above: Julie noticed that for people weary of antlers on the wall, bullhorns are the antidote. She spotted both faux and...
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10 Woven String Bags for Groceries
The market tote's more compact sibling is the netted cotton grocery bag. While it seems to me that the bags had some popularity in the 1990s, lately we've been noticing a resurgence—and some modern...
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Farmers' Markets Across America: Manteo, North Carolina
This week, we sent photographers on a mission to capture the essence of their local farmers' markets in pictures. The Manteo, North Carolina farmers' market as captured by longtime summer visitor,...
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Taking 'Bread and Roses' Literally in Brooklyn
A hundred years ago when some women workers used the rallying cry “Bread and Roses” during a strike at textile mills in Massachusetts, they were demanding basic survival plus the right to have beauty...
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5 Favorites: Backyard Chicken Coops for Small Flocks
"Because I choose not to listen to you." That is how my 14-year-old daughter explained the fact that we were on the highway the other day, headed to Petaluma to acquire three baby chicks. Now that my...
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10 Easy Pieces: Canning Essentials
There's a surfeit of fruit out there, so let's get canning. Come January, you will open a jar that tastes like summer and thank us for nudging you: Above: Do you need a million-zillion special tools...
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Farmers' Markets Across America: Michigan City, Indiana
This week we sent photographers to four farmers' markets in towns small and large across the country. Photographer Ron Reason, of Chicago and Beverly Shores, Indiana, made his way to the Mainstreet...
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