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Dry Garden Roundup: Best Drought-Tolerant Designs from the Gardenista Gallery
The water crisis here in California has us thinking about gardens and plants that can thrive with minimal water needs. We browsed our Image Gallery—a collection of more than 3,800 photos—for...
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DIY: Indigo Dye with Cara Marie Piazza
Indigo is an ancient color, a natural dye extracted from a plant of the same name, and the only true blue dye in nature. It's been found in ancient Egyptian mummy wrappings and was so valued by the...
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Ask the Expert: 7 Ways to Save Water in the Garden, from a Graywater Crusader
I don't know anybody who's not worried about water. There's either too much of it or too little. In California, where I live, we're experiencing the worst drought in a century. In New York, where my...
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Shopper's Diary: Caffé Spina in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Before opening Caffé Spina in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Vanessa Chinga-Haven was busy crunching numbers behind the scenes as financial adviser to floral designer and event planner Paul Diaz of Spina NYC....
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Hardscaping 101: Rain Gutters
Often little noticed, rain gutters occupy a prominent place on many homes. They're frequently perched at the end of a slanted roof, where they are not only a critical part of a building's...
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5 Quick Fixes: Garden Hose Management
Beyond the standard issue hose hanger; five practical and innovative ideas to detangle the garden hose and keep it off the ground. Above: The galvanized Steel Hose Hanger from Swiss company Alba Krapf...
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Outbuilding of the Week: An Old Barn Becomes an Energy-Efficient Guesthouse
At night, an old barn glows like a full moon, thanks to its new translucent skin. Architects Carver + Schicketanz transformed the hand hewn oak skeleton, transporting it from New Hampshire to become an...
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Fields of Green: 5 Favorite Lawn Substitutes
Ah, the scent of freshly mowed grass. And... lawn mower noise, grass allergies, proliferation of chemical fertilizers, obscene water consumption, and continual war with lawn intruders (of the "weed"...
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5 Favorites: Rain Gauges
Growing up in Seattle, I was always looking for ways to turn rainy weather into entertainment. Rain gauges might not be the first thing to jump to mind. But, at the risk of sounding like my elementary...
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Week in Review: The Rain Dance
This week has been a watery one on Gardenista. We've measured water, stored water, and stopped ourselves from diving straight off the deep end. Maybe our rain dances have helped, because it poured in...
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A Garden You Water Four Times a Year
Australia is the driest inhabited continent, a fact that might scare off some gardeners. Not David Glenn. Two decades ago Glenn, a nurseryman from England for whom the word "garden" conjured images of...
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Architect Visit: A Private Sauna on a Swedish Fjord
Sitting quietly along the Stockholm archipelago, this private sauna by General Architecture is the ultimate space for those seeking some covert relaxation. Clad in larch wood paneling and heavy glass...
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Table of Contents: Issue Number 9 • Grand Gardens
What makes a garden grand? Not size, necessarily, or wealth. It's more a state of mind, and in this week's Grand Gardens issue on Gardenista, we'll be exploring that je ne sais quoi that elevates an...
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Landscape Architect Visit: A London Terrace Gets a Grownup Update from del...
When I think of grand gardens, I tend to envision something that Louis XIV might have considered strolling about. But grand doesn't have to mean grandiose, and in the case of this garden designed...
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Field Guide: Crocus
Crocus: "The Early Riser" What will heaven look like when we get there? Emily Dickinson predicted a springtime Resurrection, with “the feet of people walking home” amid clumps of crocuses. We'll be...
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Shopper's Diary: Odorantes, a Parisian Florist Where Flowers Are Arranged by...
It's no wonder this discreet little florist in Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a favorite of Sofia Coppola. Walk inside the doorway, and prepare to be engulfed by a cloud storm of Paris' prettiest cut...
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A Verdant Garden in Seattle
Jane Hedreen and David Thyer live in Seattle’s Capitol Hill in a grand 1910 house that takes up six city lots and was once occupied by a US senator. Join us on a tour of their atmospheric gardens,...
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Steal This Look: Elegant French Country Compost Bins
Ojai, California-based Paul Hendershot designed this elegant three-bin compost system as part of a French-inspired vegetable garden for a Santa Barbara couple. The pair do all their own gardening—and...
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Trend Alert: Black Fences
Offering privacy where it's needed and an impressive backdrop for bright spring greens and wintry goldens as the seasons shift, black fences in the garden seem to be enjoying a special moment in the...
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5 Favorites: Polished Metal Plant Pots
Just because they grow in the dirt, that doesn't mean that your houseplants should get short shrift when it comes to their ability to play dress up. Indeed, plunk an ordinary houseplant into one of our...
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