Those psychedelic skulls we associate with Día de los Muertos aren’t just for November 1 and 2. Festooned with painted birds and flowers and ranging from golf-ball-size to the width and height of an actual human cranium, ceramic calaveras represent not only death but also the...
“What spoke to me was how it was so hidden — this really just felt like a big old camp,” said Robert McKinley, creative director and co-owner of Ruschmeyer’s, now open for its third season in Montauk. “It had a lot of character, it had...
When we’re in putter mode in our garden, our shoe choices are purely functional. It’s kinda freeing for us design obsessives — Ryan in his Crocs Croc knockoffs and me in old Chucks, loosening rootballs, just wearing any old thing. But things changed slightly when we crossed paths with the boots of Le...
Overcrowded kohlrabi? Squash getting squished? Gardeners are finding their cure to gridlocked beds in the Garden Stamp, which allows for even, consistently spaced sewing of seeds in raised beds, containers and square-foot plots. The new, sleekly designed tool — a square foot of pegs with a...
Welcome to the latest edition of Tree Stories, our series in which people introduce us to trees that have put down meaningful roots in their lives. Here, Chris Hart tells us the tale — in his own words — of the juniper trees that live in...
This week, we couldn’t get enough of the cheery woodland blooms, dignified hedging and audacious sculpture that filled the annual RHS Chelsea Flower Show, now in its 100th year. The garden scenes and scandals (yes, scandals!) are providing us with lots of inspiration as we...
Cohabitating with plantlife just does something to you. It clears your head, makes you happier, opens you up to nature’s quiet quirks. We’ve believed this since before we moved into our current house and garden — even back when C was living in a tiny...
“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars,” F. Scott Fitzgerald writes at the top of chapter three of his immortal, absurdly re-readable The Great Gatsby. Narrator Nick Carraway is describing the...
“Most people don't want to just click and order flowers for their moms. They want something special and unique, like her,” says Carlos Franco, owner and lead designer of Green Fresh Florals in San Diego, the same flower shop that created the Parisian-inspired installation we...
Last Friday’s party at the San Diego Museum of Art spoke to the sensualist in us all. First, there were the visual fireworks of 103 artworks matched with 103 floral interpretations that made good use of ranunculus stems, globe thistle and naturally fluorescent king protea....