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The HERShovel: For Women, By Women, Pink Not Included
Until I stumbled upon Green Heron Tools, I thought all gardening tools were created equal. Gardening tools marketed to women just meant shades of pink and mint and plenty of florals. Not so, say Ann...
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Shopper's Diary: Ancient Remedies From a Modern Apothecary
Inside a tiny shed studio at the back of a sprawling artists’ compound in East Austin, Texas, Tamara Becerra Valdez is surrounded by nature. Dried and drying herbs and wildflowers are...
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Hardscaping 101: Brick Patios
We learned this early: When the third little pig chose brick, he knew what he was doing. As a building material, brick has stood the test of time. It's hardworking, aesthetically versatile, easily...
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Garden Tech: Botany and Plant ID Apps for Citizen Scientists
Ever since writing about the impact that Thoreau's carefully curated notebooks have made on modern day phenology research, I've been preoccupied with the idea of folks putting their general enthusiasm...
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Outbuilding of the Week: Artemis Russell's Tiny Garden Shed
Until I convince my landlord to let me to install a tiny workshop on the roof of my building in Brooklyn, I'm satisfied to ogle photographs of other people's garden work spaces and cultivate a perfect...
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A Texas Quilter Cooks Up Plant-Based Colors for an Age-Old Craft
It may seem old-fashioned to use onion skins to dye a hand-stitched quilt that's meant to be handed down for generations. But Texas-based quilter Maura Grace Ambrose wouldn't agree. Ambrose makes...
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Trending on Remodelista: Handywomen
While we've been admiring resourceful women in the gardening and outdoor world, the team at Remodelista has been featuring women contributing to the world of architecture and interiors (while also...
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Current Obsessions: New in the Garden
We're wrapping up a week dedicated to the women in our lives with a few things that recently caught our eye: Above: A Hollywood actress restores eight NYC gardens. Photograph courtesy of New York...
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A Writer's Garden: Eudora Welty in Mississippi
Eudora Welty's parents built a house in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1925, when she was a girl, and until her death in 2001 she wrote there, sitting at a bedroom window with a view of life on Pinehurst...
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Table of Contents: Outdoors In
Now that the weather has finally warmed up, we've thrown open our doors and are spending as many hours outside as we possibly can. If we have go indoors, we still want to feel like we're living in a...
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Indoor/Outdoor Living, Napa Style
I had admired my friend Renee's Napa Valley house from afar long before I got to know her. Hidden behind a wooden gate, the house itself was hard to see, but the low front fence and graveled outer...
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Yesterday's News: Vases Made from Recycled Papers
For Dutch designer Debbie Wijskamp, creating handmade peices begins with the material itself. Taking her cue from artisans worldwide who use found matter for making everyday objects, as well as from...
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Field Guide: Fiddle Leaf Fig
Fiddle Leaf Fig, Ficus lyrata: "Fiddler Under the Roof" Fiddle leaf fig plants have little to do with fiddles—or figs, for that matter. Unlike their cousins in the fig, or ficus, family, fiddle leaf...
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Garden Visit: The Red Chair Hudson, NY
The Red Chair in Hudson, New York is an antique shop that transports shoppers to another time and place. The place? A melting pot of Southern France and Scandinavia. The time? A mélange of the 17th,...
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Steal This Look: An Old Tennis Court Turned Kitchen Garden
We're happy to see more fans out there for ceramic artist Frances Palmer, because we love visiting her country garden in Weston, Connecticut (which we wrote about here), and seeing the hand-thrown...
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Bring Outdoor Style Inside: The Rod + Weave Chair by Eric Trine
We recently spotted these woven leather chairs made by Long Beach, California designer, Eric Trine. While their simple, laid-back beach vibe reminds us of spending a day outside lounging, we think they...
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Steal This Look: Bring the Outdoors In with Photographs
Living in New York City, I'm a sucker for anything that adds a little green to my life. Though live plants absolutely do the trick, I also cannot live without the large landscape photographs that adorn...
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Test Drive: Which Cut Flowers Last Longest?
Some flowers were never meant to be cut, withering to nothing as soon as they are plucked. Others, it seems, are oblivious to being severed from their original stem. Want to know which spring flowers...
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10 Easy Pieces: Galvanized Trays
What is better than a hardworking tray that actually looks better as it ages? Galvanized metal trays are rust resistant, strong, and can take on a number of outdoor (and indoor) entertaining roles:...
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Shopper's Diary: The Gardener in Healdsburg
In Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Holly Golightly visited the jewelry store on bad days. She admired “its quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there." And if Ms. Golightly...
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