“I am a gardener, garden designer, and writer. My consultancy, LINDA, designs and plants biodiverse urban gardens that are plant-focused with an emphasis on re-using existing materials where…
Read more Quick Takes With: Susanna Grant – GardenistaFavorite hardscaping material: Natural local materials like nearby rocks, stone, gravel. Less carbon footprint transporting materials that are likely nearby. I love different textures used together. More plants,…
Read more Quick Takes With: Julie Weiss – GardenistaHappy new year! Ahead, 12 things spotted—and bookmarked—lately: File under: biophilic dream house. Post-holidays mood. This sauna and outdoor bath situation makes us swoon. Got snow? Time for hot chocolate,…
Read more Current Obsessions: Fresh and New – GardenistaPiet Oudolf designed a set of long-handled hand tools, a spade and a fork. They’re perfect for when you’re working on your knees, but need more leverage than…
Read more Quick Takes With: Richard Hayden – GardenistaWhat’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…
Read more Quick Takes With: Jean-Marc Flack – GardenistaIt was a big week here at Remodelista and Gardenista: Our latest (sixth!) book is out in the world! Read more about it right over here, and find…
Read more Current Obsessions: Outsiders – GardenistaRecently, we published a story on the trend toward more naturalistic-looking shrubs in garden design, but Michael P. Gibson’s Seussian topiary art may singlehandedly stem that tide. Michael…
Read more Quick Takes With: Michael P. Gibson – GardenistaSeasonal bouquets from the garden—sometimes foliage, sometimes flowers, often with seedheads left on. I also love framing views so that the landscape itself feels like art on the…
Read more Ashley Lloyd: The Founder of Lloyd Landwright Takes Our Quick Takes QuestionnaireUnpopular gardening opinion: You don’t need a huge yard, a greenhouse, or a picture-perfect setup to start growing food—and you certainly don’t need to grow everything all at…
Read more Ashlie Thomas: An Interview with the Mocha GardenerToday, we’re thrilled to open up this column to all R/G readers, not just subscribers, to share the Quick Takes answers from our very own Kendra Wilson. Kendra…
Read more Kendra Wilson: An Interview with the Author of Gardenista: The Low-Impact GardenWhen I first read through Marjory Sweet’s book, [ ] is a breakfast food (over breakfast), reader, I actually teared up. As much poetry book as recipe book,…
Read more Quick Takes With: Marjory Sweet – GardenistaIn this week’s installment of Quick Takes, we present a pair of Brooklyn academics with a flair for garden design, Corwin Green and Damon Arrington, partners in life…
Read more Corwin Green and Damon Arrington: An Interview With the Founders of Verrru DesignLet us count the many reasons we love Butter Wakefield, the Maryland-born, London-based garden designer who has won numerous prestigious awards for her exuberant projects (twice at the…
Read more Butter Wakefield: An Interview with the London Garden DesignerIf Wednesday Addams were a floral designer, her arrangements would look like Emily Thompson’s: dripping, clambering, creeping, amorphous, and alive despite being very much dead. We’ve covered Emily’s…
Read more Emily Thompson: An Interview with the Artist and Floral DesignerWe’ve been writing about Tama Matsuoka Wong for more than a decade—first in 2013 when we joined her for a foraging (and eating) adventure on her 28-acre property…
Read more Tama Matsuoka Wong: An Interview with the Forager ExtraordinaireBeth 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 GardenSandeep Salter was one of the many New Yorkers who escaped crowded city life during the COVID pandemic and decamped to the country. She wrote about that year-long…
Read more Sandeep Salter: An Interview with the Boutique Owner and DesignerNgọc Minh Ngo ís to plant photography what Annie Leibowitz is to celebrity portraits or Ansel Adams is to American landscapes. This is not hyperbole. With her immense…
Read more Ngọc Minh Ngo: An Interview With the Garden Photographer and AuthorRebecca McMackin is an “ecologically obsessed horticulturist and garden designer” (her description) and an incredibly engaging, deeply knowledgeable plant nerd (ours). (Just check out her Ted Talk entitled…
Read more Rebecca McMackin: An Interview With the Ecological Horticulturalist and Garden DesignerFrances Palmer is an art historian who, over the past few decades, has come to make enduring art herself: handmade ceramics that straddle the line between delicate and…
Read more Frances Palmer: An Interview with the Ceramicist and Flower Aficionado
