“We’re trying to catch the 5 o'clock from Orient Point,” RB said to the guy directing our car off the ferry — the first of three we would take that night. “Ha. Yeah,” the guy in the orange vest said. For a second we mistook his...
If any scent has the power to immediately take us right back to our recent, epic drive through the Northeast — five days, five months, five years from now — it’s the fragrance of Rosa rugosa growing along the dunes of Montauk and Maine. We first...
“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...
Earlier this month, the famed Waldorf Astoria in New York officially launched its rooftop garden, a dreamscape of tomatoes, eight-ball squash, fig and apple trees, carrots, hops, lavender, alpine strawberries, edible flowers and eight varieties of basil. The raised beds and containers are located al...
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...
Unless you’ve been living in a cave in the Frostfang Mountains, you know that something bananas went down on the second-to-last episode of Game of Thrones. And if you’re fans of the books and the HBO show (we are) last week’s episode probably made it clear...
May Gray and its glum sis, June Gloom, have descended on the coast in all their steely glory. Don’t let them win! Luckily, there’s an antidote; legions of Jacaranda mimosifolia trees are lighting up our city’s skies and streets with their purple blooms. Maybe it’s just...
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...
Last weekend we were in Seattle — RB’s first time in the city in over a decade, and C’s first time ever. Hence the light posting sked this week! We’re still coming down from all that nuanced espresso and the radiant, vertigo-inducing trees that sang...
“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...
