An Instant Garden Walkway, Courtesy of a Swedish Pergola
From Stockholm-based Nordfjell Collection: a simple steel archway that is all you need to create a freestanding room in the garden. Let vines climb and encase a single Summer Snow Pergola or use...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Landscape Up-Lights
Put your garden's best features into focus with landscape up-lighting. We've rounded up a collection of pole and surface mount up-lights perfect for illuminating trees, garden walls, and other garden...
View ArticleHoliday Glow with Lights from Terrain
We've always been fond of Terrain for its garden staples that are pretty enough to leave on view—copper pitchforks, linen-wrapped clay planters, rain boots handmade in France. But we're especially...
View Article5 Favorites: Gutter Guards
From where I sit perched on my couch, I can see the roof of the garage in the back of my building. At this time of year, and for most of the summer, the crinkled aluminum gutter that runs along the...
View ArticlePinterest Contest Winner: A Rustic and Foraged Thanksgiving Tablescape
In celebration of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday here in the States, we invited you to create Pinterest boards that highlighted a fuss-free, rustic, DIY table setting. After poring and salivating...
View ArticlePortable Garden Furniture for a Tiny Balcony
Problem: A balcony with hardly enough room to stand, let alone squeeze a table or chair. Solution: A portable table designed to balance on the edge of the balcony railing. Torafu Architects in Japan...
View ArticleGardening 101: How to Draw a Garden Plan
Have you already forgotten where you planted those tulip bulbs last week? And how exactly are you planning to locate that clump of wilted foxglove you cut back (without accidentally digging it up)?...
View ArticleThe Shade Gardener's Challenge: Impatiens Blight
As word spread last summer about a mysterious disease that was wiping out impatiens, I often thought of my former neighbors in the leafy enclave of Sunnyside Gardens in Queens, New York. Â When I lived...
View Article5 Favorites: Modern Pavers
Spotted in Oregon at the Portland Japanese Garden, a staircase of simple pavers that reminded us how much we like a path that incorporates such natural elements as gravel, stones, or moss. We've...
View ArticleDIY: Mulled Apple Cider, With a Secret Ingredient
Cold nights need warm drinks; the kind you can linger over. Olivia Rae James has been warming up her nights with a boozy, citrusy take on mulled cider. Spiked with red wine, this mulled cider gets a...
View ArticleGift Guide: For the Urban Gardener
For the urban gardener, space is limited and a need to maintain a certain degree of urbane sophistication may also be a consideration. Here's our roundup of gifts for the discerning urban gardener....
View ArticleHow to Navigate the NYC Flower Market
Does the thought of a trip to the flower market make your palms begin to sweat? Maybe I'm projecting, but I think big city flower markets can be a little unnerving for most people: The crowds. The...
View ArticleDIY Window Boxes: Build It Yourself for a Perfect Fit
Our Novice Gardener, Meredith, is lucky enough to have a little view from her San Francisco apartment—on a clear day, she can see downtown, San Francisco Bay, and Marin County, or at least a sliver of...
View ArticleThe Week in Review: 15 Links We're Thankful For
From greenery in the workplace to the intelligence of bees, here's what inspired us this week. Photograph by Rebecca Baust. If you're in New York, join us this weekend when we head over to the...
View ArticleTop 5 on Remodelista: Trending Today
This week on Remodelista, Janet set up the bar to kick off the holiday cocktail party season. Margot brought the Champagne. Julie, Christine, and Alexa joined them for a toast: to embroidered napkins,...
View ArticleInnisfree: A Storybook Garden on an American Scale
Spread over 185 acres of the Hudson Valley is a landscape that feels like taking a trip through a mystical land—like Clara's dream journey into The Nutcracker's country of sweets. Originally the summer...
View ArticleDIY: A Dried Fruit Garland for the Holidays
If you want a bit of insight into how I turned out the way I did, consider the year that my mother declared that we'd have an "18th century Christmas." While our friends made lists that included...
View ArticleShopper's Diary: Dried Flowers with Panache from Flores del Sol
As a child, Christina Rose Moreno liked to roam the fields near her upstate New York home marveling at and gathering wildflowers, leaves, and seed heads. With scissors and tape she would turn these...
View ArticleA Stylish Avian Apartment
A cozy home for feathered friends, this terra cotta nest is perfect for gardeners who love their birds. Fashioned from a classic ceramic pot with a Douglas fir front, the rustic/modern bird sNEST (No,...
View ArticleDIY: A Starry Night Holiday Light Display
Sitting in the office reminiscing about our childhoods (a topic second in popularity at Gardenista only to wondering what to have for lunch and is it too early), we were shocked to learn recently that...
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