There is a strong temptation to stay indoors when the world freezes. But out there in the cold, and especially after snowfall, the brown bones of gardens are…
Read more Snowscape Visit: The Max Family Garden in Brooklyn – GardenistaSusanna 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 – 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, MAWhen a family came to Dirt Queen NYC seeking a backyard makeover, they really just wanted one thing: to be able to use their yard. The existing “garden”…
Read more Ditmas Park Backyard: Dirt Queen Redesigns a Brooklyn Garden to Be More FunctionalThis 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 Garden of Eden: The Most Beautiful Spot in Brooklyn Happens to Be in an Industrial Park (Seriously) – 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 BrooklynThis 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 Rental Garden Makeovers: 10 Best Budget Ideas for an Outdoor Space – 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 Tiny Gardens: 66 Square Feet for Alpine Strawberries in NYC – 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 DesignAfter years of living with a shared rooftop garden in lower Manhattan, designer Julie Weiss decided to let the plants win. “I love the wild, overgrown feel,” says Weiss,…
Read more Garden Visit: At Home with Designer Julie Weiss in Manhattan – GardenistaIf 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 SpaceAlthough urban farms are on the rise, the idea of a highly productive agricultural plot in a city might still seem somewhat outlandish (what about space? or air…
Read more Edgemere Farm: An Urban Farm on Far Rockaway Offers Relief in a Food DesertAn allotment is the British English term for community garden, but it means more than that: it is a European concept of growing food where space at home…
Read more Landscape Architect Visit: How Stefano Marinaz Uses His London Allotment as a Garden Laboratory – GardenistaWhere would you expect to find a meadow filled with native flowers and grasses, where once an expanse of lawn grew? In a suburban front yard, as the…
Read more At Green-Wood Cemetery, Wildflower Meadows Replace LawnsNew Yorkers who discover Rockaway Beach, the sandy peninsula at the end of the A train, tend to fall in love. Alexandria Donati and Jonathan Chesley, the husband…
Read more Alexandria Donati and Jonathan Chesley’s Rockaway Beach GardenBrook 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 RoofA career in art direction is a useful grounding for anybody wishing to go into garden design. Sheila Jack’s career shift was not so much a break as…
Read more Designer Visit: Sheila Jack’s White Garden in West London – Gardenista“You have to be a tough to be allowed in.” Lindsey Taylor is explaining how she decides which plants to grow in her cinderblock garden, which is located…
Read more Garden Visit: Mindful Neglect in Lindsey Taylor’s Rambunctious Cinderblock Garden – GardenistaIn San Francisco’s often foggy, dune-filled Outer Sunset neighborhood, landscape design firm Talc Studio transformed a small “sand pit” into a lush and characterful garden. While the garden…
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