All week, we’re revisiting the most popular stories of 2025, including this one from July. A shade garden is a green and contemplative refuge. It can also be…
Read more Perennials for a Shade Garden: Our Favorite Native Species and Hardy Flowering PlantsFor the many gardeners whose growing-spaces are either entirely or partly shaded, shade-loving shrubs offer an important, permanent layer of interest alongside perennials and beneath trees. In small…
Read more Shrubs for Shade: Our Favorite Flowering Shrubs for the Shade GardenCulinary herbs add freshness and flavor to our meals. Growing them at home means that a quick trip to the garden or to the pot at the front…
Read more Herbs for Shade: Our Favorite Herbs to Grow When There’s Little Light in the 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 BackyardNgọc 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 Author“I think time is the fourth dimension,” says Louise Agee Wrinkle, in the kind of Southern accent you’d hope to find in Alabama but so rarely do. She…
Read more Louise Wrinkle: ‘A Garden in Conversation’ Is About the Landscape in Alabama that Inspired Her Gardening JourneyOne of the realities of enjoying a garden is that there’s not always a lot of time to do so. We work, we commute, we parent, we scroll.…
Read more White Flowers: Our Favorite White Blooms to Bring a Garden to Life, Especially at NightAbove: The blind-baked pastry shell is filled with custard and ramp leaves. Ramp Leaf Quiche Makes 1 x 9-inch quiche (springform pan) Equal parts luxury and restraint, the…
Read more How to Grow Ramps in a Pot, Plus a Recipe for Ramp Leaf QuicheThis week, as the Chelsea Flower Show goes viral on every media outlet, we take a look at Tom Stuart-Smith, the comeback—after an absence of 14 years. A …
Read more Tom Stuart Smith’s Garden at the 2024 Chelsea Flower ShowVirginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica) are a North American wildflower whose ephemeral blue beauty lights up forest floors in mid-spring. These bluebells are not the bell-adorned spires of English…
Read more Virginia Bluebells Are a Native, Shade-Tolerant and Edible Wildflower
