We’ve been noticing lately that a talent for stonework is more than an extra feather in the cap for garden designers. Wilder planting can stand or fall on…
Read more Ask the Expert: Tom Eaglestone on How to Reuse Preexisting Materials in Your Garden – 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 SpaceHere in New Jersey, we have a stormwater problem. Due to climate change, the state is getting heavier and more intense downpours from hurricanes, nor’easters, and intense summer…
Read more South Orange Middle School Plants a Rain Garden to Soak Up StormwaterThis 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 SpaceAt first sight, there’s nothing extraordinary about Alice Fox’s allotment in West Yorkshire, England. In fact, her garden community neighbors are “mostly oblivious” to the magic she weaves…
Read more Alice Fox’s Allotment Plot 105: A Visit to the Artists’s Garden and StudioHappy pub day to us! Today, Gardenista: The Low-Impact Garden finally hits bookstores! We can’t wait for you to crack it open and enjoy the contents. Whether you’re…
Read more Lawn-Free Front Yard Ideas: 10 Tips from ‘Gardenista: The Low-Impact Garden’4. 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 LandscapeWelcome 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 – GardenistaIt’s always a delight to catch up with our friends at the California design studio Terremoto. Talk inevitably ranges beyond the confines of gardens, touching on issues within…
Read more Ojai Gravel Garden by Terremoto: An Interview with David GodshallByró 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 ProjectOn a quiet side street dotted with older homes and industrial buildings in downtown Petaluma, California, is a secret garden: the unexpected Balinese-inspired “backyard” (you’ll understand why this…
Read more Alchemy Farm: Stephanie Rausser and Lawrence Cowell’s Bali-Inspired Outdoor Space in Petaluma, CAEarlier 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 RoofDavid: 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 QuestionsCurrently dreaming of adding a sweet Bonni outbuilding to my garden (even though there are two insurmountable obstacles in my way: I don’t have the space, and the…
Read more Bonni Outbuildings: Sustainable Prefab Structures from the UKI remember the first time I heard the word “snag” in reference to a standing dead tree. While touring Edwina von Gal’s property as part of a Garden…
Read more Snags in the Garden: A Garden Trend that Lets Dead Trees StandHow much does a solar energy system cost? The cost of a photovoltaic system is an up-front investment; the exact amount depends on how much electricity you use…
Read more Hardscaping 101: Solar Panels Pros and Cons – GardenistaAs a regular reader, you may already be familiar with Perfect Earth Project, as Gardenista has partnered with them on an ongoing series about nature-based, toxic-free gardening. But…
Read more Edwina von Gal: An Interview With the Landscape DesignerI’ve known artist Emma Kohlmann since she was a kid and am a huge fan. I’m not the only one. Her beguiling, dreamlike paintings were discovered on Instagram…
Read more Emma Kohlmann’s Hand-Painted Lamps from Slow Roads
