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We launched Gardenista in 2012 as the definitive guide to stylish outdoor spaces. Since then, we've been finding the best design ideas, from fragrant old French roses to midcentury house numbers. Whether your outdoor space is a city balcony or a sprawling garden, it's yours to personalize and we're here to help.
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3d ago
Currently dreaming of adding a sweet Bonni outbuilding to my garden (even though there are two insurmountable obstacles in my way: I don’t have the space, and the company is based across the Atlantic in Oxfordshire, UK). Bonni’s prefab outbuildings are both good-looking and planet-friendly. Mainly manufactured off-site, the structures are made from materials sourced ..read more
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3d ago
I remember the first time I heard the word “snag” in reference to a standing dead tree. While touring Edwina von Gal’s property as part of a Garden Conservancy Open Day, von Gal pointed out a decaying tree with pride, telling the visitors about the snag’s many wildlife benefits: It would provide a home for ..read more
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3d ago
Vermouth is a time and a place. At least, it can be, if it is homemade. This fortified, botanically infused aperitif is able to communicate a season, and that season’s feelings and memories, in a way that commercial vermouths cannot. Making your own vermouth is an extraordinarily evocative way to capture where you are. For ..read more
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5d ago
Every time we come across an edible landscape designed by Oakland-based Leslie Bennett, we are struck by the magic and beauty she brings to something as practical as a kitchen garden. She recently wrote an entire book on how she does it (Garden Wonderland hit bookstores this month). And today, she’s pulling back the curtain ..read more
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1w ago
When my friend and colleague Margot Guralnick and I set out to write The Low-Impact Home, we had many discussions with Remodelista founder Julie Carlson about whether our project would be a beautiful coffee table book or a nuts-and-bolts manual for eco-minded homeowners. What we realized was, we needn’t sacrifice one for the other. Our ..read more
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1w ago
This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to toxic-free, nature-based gardening, on how you can be more sustainable in your landscapes at home. Rashid Poulson probably wouldn’t be where he is today if he hadn’t gotten bored at work. The horticultural director of the Brooklyn Bridge Park (BBP), one ..read more
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1w ago
From the first pages of Tama Matsuoka Wong’s new book Into the Weeds: How to Garden Like a Forager, which opens with a Joni Mitchell quote and a meditation on Wong’s mother’s death, the reader is swept up in a wild and visionary way of gardening. A former securities lawyer who traveled the world for ..read more
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1w ago
Who doesn’t love cherry blossoms? Even ardent native plant advocates can’t help but admire their uncomplicated optimism. While native woodlands and gardens are still quietly waking, showing no more than the pale effervescence of spicebush and the silver buds of serviceberry, the white and pink froth of ornamental cherry season rolls across the land, a ..read more
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1w ago
For most people, getting photographed by legendary New York Times lensman Bill Cunningham would have been a source of pride. For Taylor Johnston, though, Cunningham’s shot of her installing the famous nasturtium vines at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum decades ago, led to a reckoning. Embarrassed by the outfit she wore that day, she decided ..read more
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1w ago
Over on Remodelista this week, some housekeeping inspiration that may motivate you to finally commit to some spring cleaning. Plus: Kitchens of the Week: 5 Retrouvius Designs Starring Scrap Materials, Creative Salvage Edition High/Low: A Modern Ceramic Sconce, Two Ways Steal This Look: A Small But Complete Kitchen in Brooklyn Heights For Aesthetes and Surfers ..read more