Is your garden probiotic? In other words, is it teeming with beneficial microbes that vastly outnumber pathogens and keep you healthy? Looking at your landscape from this angle,…
Read more Ask the Expert: How to Invite More Good Bacteria Into Your Garden (And Your Gut) – GardenistaThis 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. …
Read more The Year in Gardening: Looking Back With Joy (and Looking Ahead With Hope) – GardenistaOverhauling 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…
Read more A Secret Garden in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, by Julie Farris of XS SpaceThis 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. …
Read more How to Deer-proof Your Garden: Tips to Deter Deter from Eating Your PlantsAs 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…
Read more How to Lower Your Footprint When Designing an Outdoor SpaceDon’t let your Halloween pumpkin haunt the landfill this November.More than 1 billion pounds (454 million kilograms) of pumpkins rot in U.S. landfills each year after Halloween, according…
Read more Halloween pumpkin waste is a methane problem, but chefs and farmers have solutionsCollaborative post Is it possible to make a real difference for the planet without upending daily routines? In 2025, the answer seems to be: maybe, but not without…
Read more 20 easy ways to go green in 2025 for everyday life – Growing FamilyWe’ve all done it: planted something we love only to learn, sometimes years later, that it is invasive where we live. In many cases, we can be forgiven.…
Read more Invasive Plants to Avoid and the Native Alternatives You Should Grow InsteadWe all want to protect our phones from the inevitable drops, scratches and tumbles of daily life, but what if your cell phone case could protect more than…
Read more The best eco-friendly phone cases for 20254. Keep deadwood standing. Above: A simple habitat pile tucked away in the meadow at Chanticleer. Horticulturalist Chris Fehlhaber built the stack around a center post. As the…
Read more Circular Economy Gardening: How to Close the Loop in Your LandscapeLudden also recommends mulching when planting a shrub border. “I would put shredded bark mulch down because it keeps moisture in the soil and prevents weeds, and it…
Read more Rethinking Mulch: Why You Shouldn’t (And Don’t Have to) Use Mulch in Your GardenWhen I put a call out to my garden design friends about the topic of “cramscaping,” I received a lot of replies along the lines of, “I have…
Read more What Is Cramscaping? Everything You Want to Know About the Garden Design TrendLOS ANGELES, August 28, 2025 (Newswire.com) – GYS, an Eco-luxury sleepwear brand, is setting new standards in nightwear by introducing pajamas crafted from sustainable bamboo fibers. With a…
Read more GYS Redefines Sleepwear With Bamboo Fiber Pajamas: Where Comfort Meets Conscious LivingThis 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. …
Read more Hyper-Local Native Plant Nurseries: The Rise of the Backyard NurseryByró Architekti’s smallest project to date is its biggest scene stealer. Located in a garden enclave just 20 minutes from Prague’s city center, the shed was built on…
Read more The Ultimate Garden ShedThat moment when you’re winding your way up to The Penny Bun inn in the picturesque village of Askwith in Wharfedale, England, car window down, breathing in all…
Read more Denton Reserve: The Yorkshire Estate’s Land Recovery Project3. Create an out-of-sight leaf pile. If you have prying neighbors or an HOA to worry about, move leaves to less visible areas, for example from front to…
Read more Fallen Leaves: What to Do With the Leaves on Your PropertyWe’ve been following Midwesterner by birth, Californian in spirit Louesa Roebuck for more than a decade, describing her as a “fearless forager” in one story, “renegade florist” in…
Read more Quick Takes With: Louesa Roebuck – GardenistaThis 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…
Read more Biodiversity in Governors Island: Andi Pettis Is Bringing Biodiversity Back at the Urban IslandThis 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.…
Read more Maranatha Farm in Somsert Hills, NJ: Michele Logan’s Permaculture-Based Farm
