DIY: How to Hang a Staghorn Fern

Prince Charles' book about his home at Highgrove met with mixed reactions last spring in the UK, where reviewers either gushed that the gardens are "stunning" and "gorgeous" or sniffed that the grandiose sprawl represents "a small part of Britain that will, forever, be in the 17th century." Both descriptions are true, it turns out (as we Americans can see for ourselves in Rizzoli's new US edition).

The writer Michael Pollan advises: "Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food." To that, we would like to add: Don't grow anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as a seed. Here are 10 sources for our favorite organic and heirloom vegetable, flower, and herb seeds to plant this spring:

Garden in a box. Put a single elevated planter box on a small deck—or five in a row in a backyard with lots of space but terrible soil. To kick off our new Gardenista 100 guide to the hundred best outdoor products, here are our favorite elevated planter boxes:

The most generous gardener we know is British landscape designer Arne Maynard. He keeps a diary and shares intimate snapshots of his Wales garden via his Instagram feed and his online garden journal. The result? A look at a year in the life of a special garden:

The New York Botanical Garden’s annual Orchid Show could not have come at a better time for snow-blind New Yorkers living at the cutting edge of the Siberian Express. When the exhibit opens tomorrow, they can catch another train—to the Bronx—to thaw out in a fogged-up greenhouse paradise. Yesterday I got a preview:

Pare down, clean out, de-clutter—and let in a blast of fresh air. Looking ahead to spring, the Remodelista editors spent a week picking white paint, comparing fold-out ironing boards, and writing love letters to the (not-so) humble cotton cleaning cloth:

French design collective Compagnie has figured out a way for you to have a window box even if you don't have a window. We're admiring a stylish hanging planter for small spaces: