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Getting Creative with Plants at Emmadime's New Studio
The minute she laid eyes on the sun-lit, artist loft in Oakland, blogger-knitter-designer Emma Robertson, a recent transplant from LA, knew she'd found a new home for her business, Emmadime. With...
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7 Ways to Organize and Green Your Office Simultaneously
Urban gardening meets office organization. Here are seven containers that effortlessly bring plant life (office plants help us work smarter - Michelle explains why) and office organization into your...
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Confessions of a Repentant Plant Assassin: 6 Ways to Revive Neglected...
I’ve killed more houseplants than I’d like to admit. Some of that is due to having a job that requires me to travel two weeks of every month, and the other part is about not having the patience to...
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Plants on the Job: A Cautionary Tale
Not all office plants get the love and attention they deserve. When San Francisco-based photographer Kirk Crippens began work on Foreclosure, USA—an examination of the effects of the foreclosure...
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Salad Days: Grow Your Own, at Work
The perfect place to grow food crops is where it’s dry, sunny, and 68 degrees all year round. California? The Algarve? Actually, it’s somewhere closer to home—or in this case, work. According to Dutch...
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Design Sleuth: A Starburst Vertical Garden
Designed by San Francisco-based O + A, the Silicon Valley offices of Evernote feature an exuberant explosion of tillandsias against a white wall. Some people might think the vertical garden looks like...
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Gardening 101: How to Plant an Open Terrarium
If only the rest of life were as simple as growing succulents in an open terrarium. All you have to do is find a few like-minded plants, introduce them to each other, and place them in an environment...
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The Big Debate: Plants in the Bedroom?
At one of our recent editorial meetings, a discussion about plants in the bedroom revealed that Gardenista and Remodelista's editors are in two diametrically opposed camps: Love them or hate them. Why...
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10 Easy Pieces: Bulb Vases
I've decided that my bulb-forcing containment strategy needs to gain in its sophistication from my childhood bulb-forcing days. Toothpick-supported bulbs in a paper cup just don't do the trick on my...
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DIY: Grow an Indoor Compost Garden
Stews certainly help to take the chill out of winter. That's why we make a lot of these warm and hardy meals in our house. But it seems a shame to consign all the lovely leftover vegetable scraps—the...
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Garden Visit: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
It takes a certain brand of stick-to-itiveness to make it through a New England winter. Just when you think it's over, it covers April's daffodils with a dusting of snow. Luckily, there are places...
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Design Sleuth: Wire Pot Hangers
Potted plants are life affirming and full of joy, especially when they pop up unexpectedly, mounted on an interior wall. The difficulty is figuring out how to attach the cylindrical shape of a pot to...
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Back to the Future: A 1970s Style Wooden Hanging Planter
We spend a lot of time lurking on Etsy, looking for vintage bentwood plant hangers from the 1970s. There's something refreshingly modern about the simple, graceful way they frame a dangling houseplant....
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A Perfect Parasol from Sunbeam Jackie
The Brits accessorize their gardens like no one else and their latest garden must-have is a handcrafted, luxury Sunbeam Jackie Parasol, created by artist couple Charlie and Katy Napier in their 12th...
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Required Reading: The Plant Recipe Book
Baylor Chapman is a master at creating living plant arrangements. She professes that mini-container gardens rival cut arrangements not only in beauty, but also in their longevity and ability to be...
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Gardenista on Etsy: See Our Top Picks
Our friends at Etsy had a hunch that we've been visiting their gardening marketplace. Maybe it was that Michelle finally found the 1970s style wooden planters she'd been looking for through a seller on...
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All-Time Easiest Houseplant Moss Is Moving In
Spotted making itself at home at New York's recent International Contemporary Furniture Fair: preserved, unnaturally bright reindeer moss from Finland, ready to colonize coffee tables, hang from...
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Architect Visit: K2YT's Indoor Garden House in Tokyo
The house must be a startling sight to passersby in this busy residential Tokyo neighborhood. On streets where houses typically are shrouded in curtains and awnings for privacy and relief from noise,...
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The Novice Gardener: Help, Can This Olive Tree Be Saved?
I'm always nervous to return to my home after traveling; I wince at the thought of what I might find. Approaching my building, I'm always glad to see it still standing. Then I'm most reassured when two...
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Brass Tacks: Luxury Flower Pots from Sweden
The act of potting houseplants is like designing a large interior. You can't just pick out the plant and be done with it. You have to consider its full context: where it will look best indoors and the...
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9 Secrets to Growing Succulents Indoors
I've killed every succulent I've ever attempted to grow. Things start off well enough, but a few weeks after I bring succulents into my home, they start to look spindly and sad before they give up and...
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A Balcony-Style Planter for Indoors from MAKR
I've had my eye on this plant ring from MAKR for what feels like years. It's simple and classic but still a little bit unusual. I'm not sure what the policy is on drilling into the wall, but I'm...
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Ask the Expert: Bonsai Basics with Eric Schrader
Tiny, tortured bonsai trees, wise beyond their years, fascinate me. What separates them from their shopping mall cousins—shelves of identical plants, each with a tiny clay Confucius at its roots? To...
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DIY: A Desktop Zen Garden
Sometimes working in a creative field can feel like living in a Tom Cruise spy film. Like when you open an email from your editor inquiring if you might be willing to create a desktop Zen garden of the...
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Designer Visit: At Home with Miley Cyrus' Favorite Florist
Emma Weaver was at the top of her game as a prop designer, having launched her career working on videos with Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue. Then she had a change of heart, and went to a...
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Restaurant Visit: Roy Choi's Commissary, Inside a Greenhouse in LA
In the middle of Koreatown's office buildings, strip malls, and karaoke bars is Commissary, a new produce-focused restaurant, co-owned by celebrity chef Roy Choi. It's perched on the second-floor roof...
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Shopper's Diary: Vintage and Modern Meet at A New Leaf in Chicago
On the corner of Wells and Lincoln in Chicago, A New Leaf floral shop invites curious shoppers inside with a front stoop that spills over with decorative gourds and pumpkins, baskets of pinecones,...
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Restaurant Visit: A Magical Night Sky at Romita in Mexico City
On a tip that the grilled octopus, or pulpo a las brasas, was worth the trek, Mimi Giboin (a contributing photographer for Gardenista and Remodelista) ventured to Romita, in the Colonia Roma district...
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Ask the Expert: 9 Tips to Grow Edible Microgreens
In the middle of winter, microgreens are a sign of life when you're desperate for something green. Elegant as garnishes, full of delicate flavors and zesty notes, a windowsill crop of microgreens...
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Vines Gone Wild: 10 Rooms with Creeping Greenery
What better backdrop to banish winter than an indoor jungle? Here are 10 of our favorite rooms where vines and climbers cover the walls like art: Above: The courtyard restaurant at Paris' Hotel Amour....
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Designer Visit: At Home in a Castle with Belgian Designer Axel Vervoordt
What would a time traveler from the 12th century think, arriving today on the doorstep of Belgian design guru Axel Vervoordt's grand medieval castle? The sight of all those white sofas would of course...
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10 Easy Pieces: Wardian Cases
A precursor to the terrarium, Wardian cases were invented in the mid-1800s to transport rare plant specimens. And they had staying power—they're just as useful for protecting your prized plants today....
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Winter Warmth: A Garden Visit to a Glittering Crystal Palace
About 40 miles south of Copenhagen is Paradehuset, an orangery on the palatial grounds of Gisselfeld Castle, in the town of Haslev. Designed in 1876 after the Crystal Palace of London's Great...
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A Bewitching Trio of Wire Plant Stands
A trio of leggy wire plant stands will strike graceful ballerina poses—did they rehearse that?—in the corner of any room. When the weather improves, move the set outdoors or onto a covered porch....
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11 Ways to Keep Houseplants Happy in Winter
Whether your potted plants live indoors year round or have sought temporary shelter from freezing temperatures, they may be looking a little sad these days. Are you doing something wrong? Or have they...
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House Doctor: Woven Bamboo Plant Baskets
A new outfit in February perks up anybody. That goes double for houseplants. If your little potted friends are looking droopy, pop them (pots and all) into a basket. We especially like what these...
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Studio Visit: At Home with Brooklyn's Plant Whisperer
Today online magazine Freunde von Freunde publishes an exclusive interview (and apartment visit) with Brooklyn architect and designer Huy Bui, who is building a new kind of terrarium to solve a dilemma...
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Living Small: A Hanging Window Box Planter
French design collective Compagnie has figured out a way for you to have a window box even if you don't have a window. Founded 12 years ago by architect Jean-François Bellemère, Compagnie makes clever...
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Studio Visit: At Home with Berlin's Star Florist, Annett Kuhlmann
Celebrity florist Annett Kuhlmann's stylish Berlin flower shop, Marsano, feels like the inevitable conclusion to a childhood spent picking flowers to make posies to sell on the road in front of her...
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Gardening 101: How to Care for an Orchid
A lot of people bemoan their incompetence at growing orchids. I have the opposite problem—an inability to kill my scraggly supermarket-variety species after they stop blooming. Here's my secret: I...
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Handblown Glass: Dome Terrariums from Campo de' Fiori
Although the company is based in the Berkshires in Massachusetts, Campo de' Fiori specializes in mossy, aged terra cotta pots with a decidedly foreign flavor. (In fact, owners Robin Norris and Barbara...
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Still Life with Plants: An Art Collector in a Refurbished London Flat
So much for minimalism. A 3,500-square-foot London flat recently renovated for an art collector by 6a Architects is also home to dozens (hundreds?) of house plants, crammed into pots and planters in...
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10 Easy Pieces: Grow Lights for Indoor Plants
If you have never seen Seasonal Affective Disorder in action, just take a look at a houseplant in winter: sad, droopy, and straining toward a watery shaft of sunlight. This is why people who take their...
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Roundup: Potted Pilea Peperomioides ("Pass It On")
Pilea peperomioides—also known as the Chinese money plant, lefse plant, or missionary plant—is adorable, easy to grow, and apparently always in demand. (Nurseries: take note!) We have another name for...
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Still Life with Houseplants: Macramé Artist Emily Katz in Portland, Oregon
Forget minimalism. Portland, Oregon-based macramé artist Emily Katz takes a maximalist's approach to living with houseplants. Two years ago Katz learned how to make her first 1970s-style plant hangers...
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High Achievers: Trellises and Pots for Indoor Vines and Climbers
Coming this month from Danish design house Ferm Living: a collection of wide-mouthed concrete planters and pots to pair with the company's mini trellises. Suddenly it makes sense to grow a vine up a...
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#GardenistaIndoors: Happy Houseplants from Gardenista Readers
To wrap up our week of Living With Plants, we're sharing houseplant scenes from our readers. We asked readers to share their indoor gardens by tagging their Instagram pictures with #GardenistaIndoors....
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Mother-In-Law's Tongue Roundup: Modern Style for a Retro Houseplant
Sansevieria trifasciata, snake plant, mother-in-law's tongue, sword of Saint George. No matter what you call this houseplant, the West African native is almost impossible to kill. (My mother can attest...
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Terrarium Trend Alert: Glass, with Brassy Highlights
The most stylish thing you can do this fall is to let your roots show. Especially if you're a houseplant. Japanese design team Daisuke Tsumanuma and Kenichi Yamada of 1012 Terra have created a cross...
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Icy Pink Vases from Ceramist Bjarni Sigurdsson
A former banker who took an evening art class on a lark, Iceland-based ceramics designer Bjarni Sigurdsson experiments with unusual materials. A new collection of vases, for instance, is glazed in...
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