Last Friday night the Society of Garden and Landscape Designers (SGLD) gathered in London to present their annual awards. Gardenista got the scoop on this year’s winners, which…
Read more Nicholas Morton’s SGLD Award-Winning Coastal GardenSusanna Grant is a garden designer and co-director of Care, Not Capital, with the irrepressible John Little (we wrote about him here). With help from “lots of excellent…
Read more Before and After: From Yard to Garden, London Edition – GardenistaIf you’re upgrading an existing landscape, you can reuse pavers from an old path or patio to create your new outdoor space. 7. Build a patio in stages.…
Read more 10 Ways to Save Money on a New Patio – GardenistaIs 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) – GardenistaThe depaving movement has become something of a national sport in the Netherlands, with municipalities competing to see who can remove the most paving from their town each…
Read more Lu La Studio Turns a Parking Lot Into a Multi-functional Rewilded Garden in Somerville, MAFor those familiar with Los Angeles, the words “Santa Monica” will likely conjure up a very Californian version of the all-American idyll: an iconic pier and long stretches…
Read more A Santa Monica Backyard by ORCA Inspired by Mediterrannean LandscapesIn the first decade of America’s post-war boom, a million and a half new houses were built, creating vast tracts of suburbia and giving young families their first…
Read more Before & After: A 1940s-Suburban House Grows Up Gracefully in Mill Valley, CA – GardenistaWe’ve long admired the work of New York architects Messana O’Rorke, so when we inquired about the glass-wall extension and surrounding landscaping of an impressive project in London’s…
Read more A Secret Garden—and Glass Extension—in London’s Tufnell Park – GardenistaA 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 BackyardToo often pathway gaps are neglected and become a home for weeds. But where some may see awkward spaces between stepping stones, I see potential. Plants between pavers can soften hard lines,…
Read more Hardscaping 101: Ground Covers to Plant Between Pavers – Gardenista
