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Trend Alert: Beautiful Low-Impact Pathways
We all need to get from A to B, but paving—like a lawn—is best when it’s kept proportionate. Even better is a pathway that can aid water absorption, instead of an impermeable layer that puts pressure...
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Gardening 101: How to Store Dahlia Tubers in Winter
I don’t know any gardeners who casually grow dahlias. Their fireworks riot of color has an intoxicating effect. You may start with one dahlia, but before you know it you have torn out the roses,...
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Fall Gardening: Can You Stop Watering Now? (And 5 Other Burning Questions)
Ah, fall: when cozy sweaters come out, the air crisps up, a kaleidoscope of colorful leaves decorate sidewalks, and it’s a struggle to decide which pumpkin-flavored drink to buy at the local coffee...
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Artist Visit: Alice Fox’s Allotment Garden Plot 105 in West Yorkshire, England
At first sight, there’s nothing extraordinary about Alice Fox’s allotment in West Yorkshire, England. In fact, her garden community neighbors are “mostly oblivious” to the magic she weaves there. The...
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Current Obsessions: Simple Pleasures
Ahead this weekend? A dreamy, easy guest room; DIYs for the autumn table; and our undying love for both stationary shops and garden clogs. Read on: Above: Rest your eye here. Photograph by Jonas...
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Quick Takes With: Jean-Marc Flack
What’s in a name? In the case of landscape design firm Hortulus Animae, it’s the key to what motivates its founder Jean-Marc Flack. Hortulus Animae means “Little Garden of the Soul” and was originally...
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Making Waves: Introducing the iGarden Swim Jet P Series
We so love spending a day lounging by a pool that we sometimes neglect to actually use the pool. Now there’s something to lure us into the water every time: the iGarden Swim Jet P Series, new from...
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Mugwort Flowers: Dry the Invasive Herb for Cool Season Cooking
Miniscule mugwort flowers are this extremely invasive plant’s last—and very effective—hurrah before frost arrives and turns the tall, woody stems of Artemisia vulgaris into brittle, dry sticks. Over...
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Before & After: A Barren Courtyard Transformed Into an ‘Intimate, Green, and...
Earlier, Remodelista readers were treated to a tour of a row house in Ghent that was was formerly “charmless” and now fresh and chic thanks to its resourceful new owners, Arthur Verraes and Kelly...
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Ask the Experts: How to Lower Your Carbon Footprint When Creating an Outdoor...
As more garden and landscape designers aspire to create sustainable gardens, there’s one significant but often ignored aspect of sustainability they should pay attention to: hardscape materials. For...
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Pine Cones as Decor: Atelier Vime’s DIY Door Surround
Surfaced from the archives: a favorite DIY, which originally ran on Remodelista in April 2020: Like so many of us, Anthony Watson and Benoît Rauzy of Atelier Vime are finding reassurance and...
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Current Obsessions: The Craft Report
Colder temps call for wreath workshops, ceramics sales, quilted stamps, and lights inspired by pastry. Read on: Above: Now open: the new Somerset House showroom in Long Island City’s Metropolitan...
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Lessons Learned: The Misadventures of a Former City Slicker and Her Cut...
Cut flower garden. This is a sub-category of garden that, if you had asked me about three years ago, I wouldn’t have even understood, let alone imagined someday having. But three years ago, when we...
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A Stunning Botanical Hotspot: Waylands Wildflower Reserve in Darling, South...
There are many reasons to visit South Africa, but for anyone whose heart beats faster for flowers, there is this hint: Take a deep breath, exhale slowly, and book a trip any time from late August...
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From Training to Play: Make Waves With the iGarden Swim Jet P Series
Above: For more on the iGarden Swim Jet P Series, head here.
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Garden Visit: Niwaki Founder Jake Hobson’s Japanese-Inspired Mini-Forest
Jake Hobson is a master pruner. He’s written two books on pruning: Niwaki: Pruning, Training, and Shaping Trees the Japanese Way and The Art of Creative Pruning: Inventive Ideas for Shaping Trees and...
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Meanwhile, on Remodelista: Color in the Kitchen
Welcome to Meanwhile, on Remodelista, in which we take a look at the goings-on over on our sibling site. With Thanksgiving just a week away, we’ve spotted quite a few dreamy kitchens the past month on...
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Yes, Deer: How to Live in Harmony With the Notorious Garden Foe
This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to toxic-free, ecological gardening, on how you can be more sustainable in your landscapes at home. For more than two...
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Gardening 101: Common Fig
Common fig, Ficus carica The next plant I plan to buy for myself (and not for a garden client) will definitely be a fig tree. I usually harvest figs from my clients’ trees, and any fruit that goes...
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Current Obsessions: Gathering
Happy weekend, readers, and pre-feasting to all who celebrate! Ahead: old-school cooking tools we’re admiring, foraged branches, wreath making, and cozy spots to crack open a book. Read on: Above:...
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The Savvy Shopper’s Guide: 24 Black Friday Sales for the Home and Garden
Tis the season for…shopping? That’s what our inboxes and feeds would have us believe. It’s easy to get caught up in the frenzy, but we try to take an intentional approach. Shop secondhand. Shop local....
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Holiday Gift Guide 2025: Actually Useful Stocking Stuffers for the...
Small gifts for gardeners abound in gift shops and at online retailers, but if we’re honest? Many of them aren’t great picks for true gardeners (we wouldn’t dare pick out seeds for another gardener,...
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A No-Knead Focaccia for Thanksgiving and Beyond
Good homemade focaccia is irresistible, and impressive. Straight from the oven or savored later, focaccia should be crunchy with olive oil on the outside, tender on the inside, and taste of the moment....
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DIY Holiday Table Inspiration: Ad-Hoc (and Edible) Candleholders
One of our favorite tips from our book, Remodelista in Maine, comes from event designer Molly O’Rourke. “It turns out an apple corer creates a hole that is the same diameter as a taper candle,” she...
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Recipe: 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...
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In Praise of Outdoor Holiday Decorations That Are Wonky, Homemade, and...
It happens to the best of us. One year, you put up a wreath, maybe surround the front door with twinkly lights. But then, year by year, as more of your neighbors spend thousands of dollars to do up...
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Current Obsessions: Post-Feast
Happy weekend to all! Ahead, 20 things we’re noting lately, for all your post-holiday cozied-up scrolling. Above: A festive (and low-key) weekend project? This wintery bough on Gardenista. Photograph...
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Psst…What We Loved in November
Welcome to Psst, where each month the Remodelista and Gardenista editors share an inside look at what we’ve been reading, watching, coveting, pinning, visiting, and otherwise loving lately. Ahead, what...
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Winter Is Coming: How to Care for Houseplants When They Go Dormant
Just like us, houseplants want to hunker down for the colder and shorter days ahead. While your foliage friends might not appreciate a warm cup of cocoa or cozy scarfs, they do appreciate a little...
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Honor Roll: An NJ Middle School Gets a Rain Garden to Curb Stormwater Runoff
Here in New Jersey, we have a stormwater problem. Due to climate change, the state is getting heavier and more intense downpours from hurricanes, nor’easters, and intense summer thunderstorms. We also...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2025: For the Well-Dressed Gardener
If you’ve been keeping up with the zeitgeist, you probably already know that garden-wear (a subset of workwear) is trending. That’s a good thing for those of us who, even when we’re not kneeling in...
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Garden Visit: An 81-Year-Old Daily Gardener in Oakland Shares Her Lessons...
Ann Nichol’s home and garden in Oakland, CA, is impossible to miss. Fortunately, there is ample street parking on her block to pull over and gawk and be inspired by the colorful waves of plants on her...
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The Beauty of Decay: 10 Perennials to Add Structure to a Winter Garden
As gardens fade and the days darken, it’s tempting to forget about what’s going on outdoors until early spring when everything jolts back into life. But this is a missed opportunity. Careful plant...
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Homegrown Limoncello: Preserving a Precious Meyer Lemon Crop
It is early winter and our Meyer lemon tree is now indoors in a sunny window, to overwinter until mid-spring. The lemons are so ripe and perfumed that we smell them the second we walk into the...
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Current Obsessions: Cold Moon
Happy December from us to you! Wishing you a warm weekend—and here are 25 things to peruse, whether you’re huddled under a blanket or dashing to festive events. Above: Admiring: a pretty outtake from...
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Quick Takes With: Richard Hayden
More than three decades ago, Richard Hayden left New York City for Los Angeles, where he thrived as a landscape designer for glamorous clients like Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Candice Bergen, and Angela...
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Preserved Lemons: A Two-Ingredient Recipe
Recently, when I made limoncello from the plump fruit of our little Meyer lemon tree, I had leftovers: seven perfect and precious—but naked— lemons. Their skins were soaking in vodka (see last week’s...
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Wild Is Best: A Low-Water, High-Spirit Garden in a Small Footprint for an...
File this under Seemingly Antithetical but True: The tinier the outdoor space, the more verdant it should be. “We find that minimalist garden strategies work well on large, vast spaces, while smaller...
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Garden Visit: A Secret Garden in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
Overhauling a townhouse backyard after a renovation is a fairly common assignment for a New York City landscape designer. For one recent project, Julie Farris, the founder of XS Space, was given...
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8 Favorites: Houseplants for the Bath
The best room in the house (for your plants) is the bath. House plants perform well with natural light and shower mist; as an added bonus, they also purify the air. Since you probably don’t have an...
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