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We first visited Meadowburn Farm four years ago, at the height of summer. My youngest daughter, Eta, was in my arms, just six months old, and my eldest daughter, Lowe, was three at the time. We were brought there by our old friend Quill Teal-Sullivan, who was then the head gardener of Meadowburn, in Vernon,

The yearbook at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, is called The Ivy, named after the ivy-covered buildings on the quadrangle. When I arrived there for my junior year, the fustian towers had been recently stripped of their evergreen vines; a pity since they must have been built with ivy in mind. College gothic is nothing

Right now, here in fall, this is when all the many flaws in my garden are on glorious, full on, full frontal display. Proudly, they flaunt themselves, mocking me to every carload of judgmental suburbanites that drives by, the pilots and passengers who fly over my house, and the hordes of bike path walkers across The post Finding and Fixing Our Gardens’ Many Flaws. Now Is the Time! appeared […]

The perennial question: Which is better? Living in a bustling city or the tranquil country? Remodelista found evidence to support both sides this week. In the Country In the City A Bit of Both Plus: Dark Horse Coffee Automat in Toronto, Designed by Mjölk 10 Easy Pieces: Simple Wood Coffee Tables Shopper’s Diary: Suay’s Ethically

Like most things in your garden, tools need a little loving care to keep them happy. Here are a few easy tips for cleaning and caring for your pruners. Photography by Erin Boyle for Gardenista. For a roundup of our favorite pruners, see 10 Easy Pieces: Garden Pruners. is $25 for 32 ounces from Solvent

First we all read the big news – that the American Horticultural Society, in order to survive financially, has decided to sell the 25-acre historic property in Alexandria, Va. that serves as its national headquarters, and is considering an acquisition by the American Public Garden Association. Cue the Uproar Naturally that sparked a Facebook group The post River Farm, AHS’s Headquarters, to […]

Guest Post by Ginny Stibolt Someone recently asked me if there was a free online version of one of my books Organic Methods for Vegetable Gardening in Florida. My response was polite, but after thinking about it, it occurred to me that readers probably don’t understand the enormous amount of work it takes to write The post Between the covers: What goes into writing a gardening book appeared […]

Pomegranate, Punica granatum Who else feels like wearing a white toga and donning a laurel leaf crown while munching on a pomegranate? (Just me? Oh, well.) Let me explain. The pomegranate goes back to ancient Middle East civilizations and was well-known in the Biblical period. Once this historic plant made its way to Greece, it

Guest post by Linda McGivern Left elbow screaming in pain (gardener’s “tennis elbow” is a real thing), I raked up the last pile of yard waste from the shade bed under the London plane tree, scrambling to finish this final garden clean-up before a predicted windstorm scattered the tree’s sycamore-like leaves upon the whole expanse The post Decrotia, or: How the climate crisis came for my […]

Leaves are falling. Days are shrinking, nights are stretching. Autumn is not the end of gardening, but a good time to make plans, prepare, and put to bed. And perhaps grow a salad or three. Read on for 10 fall garden chores to do now. Photography by Marie Viljoen. 1. Empty fragile pots. The freeze-thaw

This is simply one of the most joyful gardens we’ve ever seen. More than 20 years ago, Anna and Allan Joyce (a landscape architect and architect, respectively) decided to build their family home on a half acre in Southwell, England, that came with a derelict walled garden. They had five young children, and their dream

I never knew that the antonym of autumnal was vernal. Which makes sense, I guess as there is no word for springnal. With covid,...

There are many reasons I married my husband: for his salsa recipe, ability to make the modem thing work, and taste in books (if he likes an Alan Furst, so will I). But perhaps his greatest hidden talent is he can make a fire. Yes, I know your husband can make a fire too. But

October 17, 2020 Lovettsville, VA Dear Scott, Well, August is well and truly behind us.  I don’t remember September.  It had something to do with a copyediting deadline on the new book, but when I try to think on it, I just black out and find myself here in the glory and gorgeousness of October.  The post Martha, October, and the magic of Li Ziqi – A Letter to the Midwest appeared first […]

With daylight dwindling, we’re all starting to clock more hours indoors. Fortunately, Remodelista has some fresh ideas for bringing the great outdoors in. Plus: Steal This Look: A New York Kitchen with Old World Charm 10 Things Nobody Tells You About Plaster 10 Easy Pieces: Remodelista Editors’ Favorite Everyday Wine Glasses Tricks of the Trade:

My post about Lyme Disease – especially my forgetting to freak out about it, thanks to worrying about Covid – prompted this email from reader Lorraine Streat in Maine. Hello Susan, I read your great article regarding deer ticks and Lyme Disease. In Maine, we gardeners battle deer ticks, black fly and worst of all, The post Browntail Moths and the Will to Garden appeared first on GardenRant.

We have a beautiful dogwood in our front yard. Like the other few plants on our property that are actually thriving, this tree was here long before we arrived—and long before I started gardening (or what I like to call, killing plants with my good intentions). Trouble is, an arborist recently told me that our

This is a year when speculation about the future underlies almost everything we do. When will we be able to see children/grandchildren/siblings who live in another state or country? When can we take that vacation? Will the kids be able to go trick-or-treating? When will it be okay to eat inside a restaurant without worry? The post Will gardening continue to trend? appeared first on GardenRant.

I still remember the first time I saw roofs made of red clay tiles. I was visiting my grandmother in Santa Monica one hot summer, and I was enchanted by the city’s combination of terra-cotta roofs, stucco bungalows, cracked concrete streets, and tall, skinny palm trees. Santa Monica seemed warm and gracious, and those tile roofs evoked a

  I am reading Julian Barnes’s rollicking and upending book about death, entitled Nothing to Be Frightened Of. Well, I am frightened. I don’t dwell on death, but the end is nigh—of this growing season at the very least. We had our first patchy frost a week ago. I am trying desperately to gain a The post What’s in Store for 2021 That Could Top This Year? appeared first on GardenRant.

Back in spring, prepping for the pandemic meant stocking up on toilet paper. This fall? Make sure you order a fire pit in order to extend outdoor entertaining season. Below, our recommendations for some particularly stylish ones. Create an instant bonfire with these versatile wood-burning fire pits and bowls, perfect for the patio or the

Common fig, Ficus carica  The next plant I plan to buy for myself (and not for a garden client) will definitely be a fig tree. I usually harvest figs from my clients’ trees, and any fruit that goes uneaten I turn into yummy fig jam, but transporting delicate, thin-skinned figs home is a tenuous and

Why do flowers go in and out of fashion? In the 18th century, German botanist Johann Gottfried Zinn received a shipment of Asteraceae seeds from Mexico that locally had been considered an ugly weed. In Europe their reputation fared better; Carl Linnaeus dubbed them “zinnias” after Zinn, who died young.  Two centuries later, the reliably colorful flowers of Zinnia

Эндрю Фишер Томлин — дипломированный садовод и член Общества садоводов, хорошо известен созданием садов и общественных парков во многих странах, включая Австралию, Новую Зеландию, страны Карибского бассейна и всю […]

Remodelista armchair-traveled to France this week for a dose of je ne sais quoi flair—and we couldn’t be more pleased with the ideas. Go askew. Add softness. Buy French. Rely on vintage. Plus: Steal This Look: A Modern Farmhouse Dining Room in France Kitchen of the Week: A Compact Family Kitchen in Paris 10 Easy

In lieu of organizing an in-person garden tour this year, I’ve gone virtual, making or helping make 8 video “tours” so far, with just one more to go. At first I worked with the local access TV station but since buying a new video editing program and finding it easy to use, I’m flying solo The post My Front-Yard Make-Over, the Video appeared first on GardenRant.

Joel and Diane Schatz have photos (circa 1927) of their Mill Valley, California, house that show a garden party in progress under a great canopy of wisteria, with guests in party hats posed against a backdrop of pampered rhododendrons, camellias, and holly. This is not how the place looked the first time the Schatzes saw

Ever ready to object when I hear the word ‘pretentious’ used to condemn something that might warrant a deeper conversation and a bottle of wine, I have recently found myself defending the practice of naming one’s garden to [apparently] less pretentious gardening friends; and I thought that it might be worth throwing out the topic The post Is Naming Your Garden Pretentious? appeared first […]

It might interest you to know that U.S. Patent No. 286,952 was granted in 1883 to one William J. Moore of Weatherford, Texas for a new and improved wire harvest basket, the manufacture of which involved threading a wire through a top and a bottom hoop to form “an open net-work of reverse diagonally arranged or crossing wires.”

Never mind clean-up. Winter will take care of most of that. This is when I like to tear the garden apart. First comes the time of judgement. I walk through the garden and figure out a. Which areas suck and b. Which ones, of all the areas that suck, can be fixed? Certain substandard plantings The post Fall: the season of destruction appeared first on GardenRant.