On the program this weekend, disregarding winter and preparation for spring– consisting of including color to the home, altering the garden plan, and maybe embracing a fruit tree.
Above: Tip to self: life remains in color. Picture thanks to Little Mill Abergavenny, from Little Mill Abergavenny: A Once-Upon-a-Time Vacation Home in Wales.
- Caring, loving this cornflower-blue kitchen area.
- Never ever not smitten by an edible candleholder.
- Speaking of, we have actually been tracking the bread-as-decor trend; great sightings right by doing this.
- Who else wishes to live in the rustic interiors of Hamnet!.?.!?(
- Hat tip: Deborah. )New and noteworthy: a convenient little stool to use all over your house.
- We ‘d love to sign up with these workshops on making ethereally stunning Ukrainian wax eggs.
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Curtain dreams.
- Did you know DWR is having its semiannual sale? Take 25 percent off everything.
- Planting season is just around the corner. Let these four basic gardening tenets assist your strategies. (Hat tip: Laura.)
- Fan is considering these Deep Black x Gardenheir ceramic vases.
- Another partnership she likes: minimal edition dinnerware from two Bay Area gems– Heath x Mister Jiu’s. “That yellow platter is simply delightful.”
- Congratulations to all the winners of Cooper Hewitt’s yearly National Design Awards– including landscape architect Christine Ten Eyck (whose work remains in both Gardenista books) and Berea College Student Craft (see Margot’s Remodelista story about their handiwork here).
- This courtyard garden in Chengdu, China, is simply beautiful.
- Heads-up, Angelenos: The Huntington’s Bonsai Celebration is taking place today and tomorrow.
- What an excellent concept! Embrace a peach or nectarine tree at Masumoto Farm, and come harvest time, you and your group can select a couple of hundred pounds of natural fruit. Information here.
- And a PSA for those of you in the Bay Area: flowering quince branches are presently in stock at The Gardener Store!
- Ooh, Develop Academy simply introduced a new online course with garden legends Isabel and Julian Bannerman: “Producing a Romantic English Country Garden.”
- Last, a must-read for anybody thinking about rewilding their backyard.