Greenhouse as Restaurant

Lush order in a garden designed to look its best year-round.

We're anxious for spring, can you tell? Here are a few things that keep us going while we wait for a warmer week.

Most British gardeners are kept inside during the cold winter months, but John Tebbs had bigger plans than to wait for the sun to return. He recently launched an online garden shop full of functional, aesthetically pleasing gardening products.

We generally prefer plants for garden ornamentation, but a rusted iron sphere from Los Angeles-based Potted has us reconsidering.

Interested in trying metallic paints? We asked members of the Remodelista + Gardenista Architect/Designer Directory for their recommendations and they pointed us to Modern Masters, a line of latex metallics in a huge range of shades.

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A couple of weeks ago, as I approached the finish line of a major home construction project (and was feeling pretty good about some of my design decisions), the stonemason arrived and asked how I’d like the bluestone deck to look. “There are choices?” I asked. Until that moment I hadn’t realized there were a range of details to consider, such as color, pattern, texture, and edging. If you find yourself in the same position, I've done the research for you; here's what I learned:

Ditchley Park in Oxfordshire was the epicenter of elegance and fun in the 1930s. Saved from decline by the fabulously wealthy Trees (Ronald and his wife Nancy, before she was known as Nancy Lancaster), it combined a historic sensibility with modern American comfort. No wonder Winston Churchill chose it as his WW2 weekend hideaway.