When Sarah Pajwani and her family moved into their house near Maidenhead (an hour from London) in 2011, it was surrounded by an “overgrown field.” Having created a…
Read more Magic in Maidenhead: An English Garden That Glows in the Winter – GardenistaFile 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,…
Read more Wild Is Best: A Low-Water, High-Spirit Garden in a Small Footprint for an Architect – GardenistaThis week, we’re revisiting some of our all-time favorite stories about gardening in New York City. Cultivating plants in the Big Apple comes with challenges—yards tend to be…
Read more Courtyard Gardens in New York City: Our Favorite Backyards in Manhattan and BrooklynOftentimes landscape designers are called in to execute a one-time overhaul or to create an instant landscape for a site that’s been ravaged by construction. Every once in…
Read more A Westchester Garden Designed by Landscape Designer Ashley LloydIs there any greater luxury than bathing outdoors? You don’t need much more than a shower head and a modest enclosure (ideally one that offers a glimpse of…
Read more Outdoor Showers: Our 20 Favorite Ideas for Bathing OutsideWelcome to Meanwhile, on Remodelista, in which we take a look at the goings-on over on our sibling site. We’ve been noticing recently, both there and on our…
Read more Meanwhile, on Remodelista: The Case for the Landscape Makeunder – GardenistaFor their historic home in the enclave of Clifton in Bristol, UK, an energetic couple wanted an informal, biodiverse, and sustainable landscape where their grandchildren and dogs could romp.…
Read more Before & After: A Modern Courtyard Garden for a Historic Home – GardenistaBeth Chatto’s “right plant, right place” motto? Turns out it can be applied to home design, too. Los Angeles architect Patrick Bernatz Ward is guided by the same…
Read more Patrick Bernatz Ward: An Interview With the Los Angeles Architect About Landscape Design and His GardenA couple months ago, I wrote a story for Remodelista about a modernist landmark Brooklyn Heights townhouse restored by Starling Architecture. The post focused on the sophisticated midcentury-style…
Read more The Merz House in Brooklyn Heights: Nishiel Patel Reconfigures and Re-beautifies the Landmark Home’s BackyardAs a practicing architect, a professor of architecture, and the author of ten design books, Pierluigi Serraino knows modern architecture intimately. But for his latest, The Modern Garden:…
Read more The Midcentury Landscape Architecture of ‘The Modern Garden,’ a New Book by Pierluigi SerrainoIf you’re lucky enough to have a garden in a big city, you learn to accept the fact that while you’re out there, you’re in full view of…
Read more Privacy Landscaping: The Best Plants to Use to Enclose Your Outdoor Space“There isn’t another site like this available anywhere near Portland, Maine,” said Russell Tyson of Whitten Architects, “and it’s the site that makes this house so unique.” He’s describing a jaw-dropping…
Read more Landscape Visit: The Ultimate Indoor-Outdoor House on 36 Acres in Coastal Maine – GardenistaWhen Stephanie Wong and her partner, Daniel Watson, found their future home in Atwater Village back in 2021, they saw potential behind the concrete lot and dated details.…
Read more Before & After: A Modern Landscape Fit for a Finca in Los Angeles – GardenistaAbove: Anastasia and Taylor (right) at their office. Talc Studio‘s design aesthetic is the landscape equivalent of the perfectly mussed bedhead. Their outdoor spaces for clients up and…
Read more Talc Studio: An Interview with Founders Taylor Palmer and Anastasia SonkinBrook Klausing and us—we go back. The landscape designer and model (Jenna Lyons famously hired him to redesign her backyard, then put him to work as a J.Crew…
Read more Brook Klausing: An Interview with the New York City Landscape DesignerEarlier this week, 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…
Read more Urban Garden: A Row House in Ghent Gets a Stunning Makeover, Complete with Green RoofChances are high that over the last two decades, you’ve been influenced at least once by Deborah Needleman, even if you’ve never heard of her. At different times…
Read more Deborah Needleman: An Interview about Gardening with the Editor-Turned-Basket WeaverIn the introduction to her epic new book, Visionary; Gardens and Landscapes for our Future, photographer Clare Takacs admits that in 2021 she set out to shoot only…
Read more Visionary by Clare Takacs and Giacomo Guzzon: A ReviewDavid: Filter or weed fabric is an entire industry that, if I could, I would delete with the push of a button. Weeds go through it, it’s plastic,…
Read more Terremoto’s David Godshall, Dawn Wang, and Diego Lopez Answer Our Burning QuestionsAdd this to the long list of small details that, if given some thought, can yield big curb appeal: rain gutters. Chances are you haven’t spent much time…
Read more Stylish Rain Gutters in Corten Steel, Aluminum, and Zinc by Jespersen Nødtvedt
