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Steal This Look: A House With Slate Shingle Siding
Spotted in a project by London architecture firm Gundry & Ducker, this slate facade takes a conventional material in a traditional shape and makes it look fresh by keeping the rest of the look...
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Shopper's Diary: The FloraCultural Society in SF's East Bay
When Anna Campbell moved to Oakland, she had dreams of opening a floral shop that would help her reconnect customers to nature. Happily, she found a small triangle of undeveloped land under a busy...
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Garden Roundup: 10 Signs of Spring from the Gardenista Gallery
Is your spring garden blooming yet? How about your spring fire escape? We've rounded up ten of our favorite spring gardens—in the city, in the country, and in between—from our Gardenista Gallery. Let...
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10 Easy Pieces: Garden Kneelers
Getting out in the garden for spring cleaning and planting is tough on a gardener's knees. Garden kneeling pads to the rescue. Here's a round up of three kinds—knee pads, kneelers, and foldable...
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Refreshing Neglected Garden Tools
Some of us at Gardenista are guilty of being a little careless with our garden tools; we've left them out to soak in the rain, scorch in the sun, and decay in buckets of weeds. We love our tools but...
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DIY: Ode to Spring Bouquet
Even for the most hardy, hibernal enthusiasts among us, this winter in New England has gone on way too long. We're still awaiting the first buds, the emergence of tiny green shoots from the frozen...
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Hardscaping 101: Picket Fences
The idea of a house with a picket fence is iconically American. Sturdy, attractive, and ingeniously thrifty with evenly spaced vertical boards that allow daylight to peak through, picket fences...
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Palette & Paints: 5 Favorite Eco-Friendly Stains
On Tuesday, Erin called our attention to the beauty of the color-stained garden bed in Trend Alert: Stained Raised Beds. She noted that untreated lumber is still the gold standard for building raised...
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Required Reading: The Cut Flower Patch
We know that growing our own cut flowers is easy, with clear benefits: thrift, bounty, show-off value. But we don't always get around to doing it, despite the encouragement of small, friendly seed...
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Tips & Tools: Sow Seeds While They're Fresh
When you sow seed that fails, do you blame yourself? It's a little known fact that the seeds of some of our favorite plants need to be sown fresh. On tearing open your carefully chosen seed packets in...
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Outbuilding of the Week: A Garden Shed Made from Reclaimed Redwood
Old redwood fencing takes on a new life as a thoroughly modern shed. The designer, Joseph Sandy, transforms simple materials—corrugated metal roofing, plastic sheeting, reclaimed wood and pegboard—into...
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Everlasting Bouquets from Ashley Woodson Bailey
Atlanta photographer Ashley Woodson Bailey was a full-time floral designer when a car accident two years ago put her in a back brace for months. The accident changed her life dramatically. She had two...
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Shopper's Diary: Pollinate in Oakland, CA
Pollinate, in the sun-drunk Fruitvale district of Oakland, is a practical place, a farm store for the urban dweller. For city gardeners, the place is a godsend. At Pollinate you can get anything from...
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Trending on Remodelista: Spring Cleaning
The weather isn't exactly cooperating with the season in all corners of this country, but we're forging ahead and celebrating spring anyway. And while we're eager to have the chance to get our hands...
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Current Obsessions: Welcoming the Vernal Equinox
Not to gloat. On the West Coast we're in full spring swing. But we empathize with some of the rest of you who are still surreptitiously peeping out the window waiting for its arrival. Meanwhile, we've...
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The Road Not Taken: Robert Frost's Daffodils in Gloucestershire
Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" may be an icon of American poetry, but it was written about a friend in England who was plagued by indecision. The path of Frost's days of walking and talking in...
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Table of Contents: India Song
Warm colors, cool water, chaotic patterns, symmetry—and pink as the ultimate neutral color. Jawaharlal Nehru said India is a bundle of contradictions held together by strong but invisible threads....
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Architect Visit: In India, Housing for Elephants and Their People
At the foot of the 16th-century Amber Palace near Jaipur, India, is hathi gaon, a village designed for 100 elephants and their caretakers. Though the concept sounds sweet, it—and its larger context—is...
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DIY: Rose Petal Honey
On my last day in India, I had my first taste of rose petal honey, swirled into the yogurt I ate for breakfast as I sat on a balcony watching the Taj Mahal shimmer through a haze of humidity. Back...
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Field Guide: Tulsi Basil
Tulsi Basil, Ocimum Tenuiflorum: "Holy Basil" Cultivation of this wild-growing herb began in India. According to Indian legend and religious teaching, tulsi basil was bestowed on humanity as an...
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