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Miracle Cure for Allergies: Gentle Nettle Tea
I never had allergies growing up. As soon as the weather was warm, I would throw off my jacket and practice log rolls down our backyard hill. I covered my nose with bright yellow pollen without so much...
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Marrying Pots and Plants at Mrs. Robertson in Fort Greene
Mrs. Robertson in Fort Greene, Brooklyn is precisely my kind of shop. Filled both with antiques and works from modern makers, the shop is chock full of delightful objects, but manages somehow not to...
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For Kids Only: A Hidden Garden in Brooklyn
Children who grow up in New York City are often deprived of time in the natural world. But just off the traffic-jammed hubbub of Flatbush Avenue, hidden inside the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a one-acre...
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The Bronx Goes Native: A Visit to the New York Botanic Garden
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Farmers’ Markets Across America: New York, New York
For our last farmers’ market profile of the week, we headed to the Big Apple. Union Square Greenmarket in New York City is one of the nation’s largest farmers’ markets. Started with just a handful of...
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Uli Lorimer, Native Plant Whisperer
What’s well behaved, and what’s a takeover artist? If you’re looking to add native plants to your garden, you’d be well served to spend some time with Uli Lorimer, curator of the Brooklyn Botanic...
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The Summeriest Restaurant in New York?
Matt Lambert, an Auckland native, and designers Alexander Evangelou and James Waterworth of London-based Alexander Waterworth Interiors are behind the newly opened Musket Room in Nolita, possibly the...
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Hike of the Week: Brooklyn Bridge Park
When New York City temperatures got stuck in the high 90’s for a long week in July, sweat and misery seemed to be everywhere. But some people were brave enough to unglue themselves from their air...
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Best Made Co. at 36 White Street
If you haven’t felt the solid weight of an axe in your hands recently, we suggest a visit to Best Made Co.’s new shop in downtown Manhattan. Designer Peter Buchanan-Smith founded Best Made Company in...
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Moveable Feast: A Pop-Up Farm in Brooklyn
North Brooklyn Farms is a pop-up oasis of kale, tomatoes, and eggplants growing in a former parking lot near the Williamsburg Bridge in the shadow of a defunct Domino Sugar factory. Built on pallets,...
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Leaf Peeping in New York: Take a Tree Identification Class
Pay a bit of careful attention and it’s easy to become enamored by the scrappy bits of the natural world surviving in the middle of the concrete jungle. Remodelista contributor Margot and I have been...
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GRDN in Brooklyn: Fall Colors in a Favorite Plant Shop
It’s October and it’s time to embrace the idea that brown is a color, says Brooklyn garden shop owner Susanne Kongoy. She’s spreading the message by filling her normally lush Brooklyn shop, GRDN, with...
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Party Flowers: In Which I Make 12 Arrangements on a Budget of $200
In my past life as a florist, I was tasked with everything from tiny ikebana to grand wedding flower installations. While the five years of flower wrangling helped me through school, I’m surprised to...
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Jewels by JAR, Inspired by the Garden
Joel A. Rosenthal, or JAR as he is known, has built a reputation over the the last 35 years in Paris as one of the world’s most exclusive and innovative living jewelers. From now through March 9, the...
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Taking ‘Bread and Roses’ Literally in Brooklyn
A hundred years ago when some women workers used the rallying cry “Bread and Roses” during a strike at textile mills in Massachusetts, they were demanding basic survival plus the right to have beauty...
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Shopper’s Diary: Tiny Worlds Under Glass at Twig Terrariums
I first noticed the Twig Terrarium store on my way to Runner and Stone, the Gowanus restaurant and bakery. The two are neighbors, comprising a tiny pocket of cool on unlovely Third Avenue, which, even...
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A Tropical Paradise, Attainable by Subway
Spending an hour or two inside a steamy conservatory in the middle of winter is one of the more rejuvenating ways I can think of to pass an afternoon. The thrill of warm air on your cheeks and the...
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Shopper’s Diary: Caffé Spina in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Before opening Caffé Spina in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Vanessa Chinga-Haven was busy crunching numbers behind the scenes as financial adviser to floral designer and event planner Paul Diaz of Spina NYC....
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Shopper’s Diary: Stems, Brooklyn’s Only Flower Shop in a Bar
When was the last time you walked into a bar and were greeted not with the odor of stale beer, but instead with the sweet fragrance of cut flowers? If the answer is “never,” I suggest you take a trip...
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Rehab Diary: Jo Malone’s Fragrance Garden in Brooklyn
The Scenario: A 3,140-square-foot lot in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood (home to one of the country’s most polluted waterways and notorious for its toxic stench) was sending tens of thousands of...
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Opening Ceremony: A Preview of New York’s Orchid Show
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,...
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April in New York: Visit the NY Botanical Garden in Bloom
It’s a 20-minute train ride on Metro-North from teeming Grand Central Station to the New York Botanical Garden’s parklike grounds in the Bronx, where cherry trees are busting out all over, despite snow...
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Restaurant Visit: Aussie Style Invades Brooklyn at Brunswick Cafe
“It’s a lovely immigration story,” says Alexander Hall, who came to the United States “with nothing” eight years ago. Hall grew up in Melbourne, Australia, and has worked for more than 20 years in the...
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Shopper’s Diary: Gowanus Nursery in Brooklyn
Gowanus Nursery in Brooklyn is not in the neighborhood of Gowanus. Let’s just get that out of the way. The nursery is now in Red Hook, Brooklyn, near the port life of New York Harbor, downwind from Pok...
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NYC Weekend: Lily Pads and Rooftop Ponds at the Whitney Museum
On admiring a graceful trio of ponds on the terrace at the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, we enquired after the designer. But Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects,...
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Restaurant Visit: An Innovative Micro Farm at Olmsted in Brooklyn
A buzzy new restaurant in Brooklyn is condensing today’s biggest food trends (farm-to-table, sustainability, no-waste) into a tiny backyard garden. At Olmsted, named for the famous landscape architect...
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Kings County Imperial: A Brooklyn Restaurant’s Heirloom Chinese Vegetable Garden
Finally: excellent Chinese, fresh from a kitchen garden in Brooklyn. Despite a recent surge of all kinds of farm-to-table restaurants, American Chinese restaurants have remained the MSG-laden...
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Cherry Blossoms: 7 Trees to See at Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Festival
It’s cherry blossoms season—the few weeks in April when delicate, cotton candy-colored flowers are everywhere, casting a rosy hue on city streets and Instagram feeds. This weekend the Brooklyn Botanic...
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Restaurant Visit: A Secret Roof Garden at Rosemary’s in Greenwich Village
Walking into Rosemary’s restaurant in Greenwich Village, you would never guess there’s an edible garden overhead. But head to the back of the room to climb the metal staircase—and you will discover the...
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High Line NYC: The Inside Story by Landscape Designer Piet Oudolf
New York’s High Line has been a game changer ever since 2009, when its southernmost section opened to the public. But in all the books subsequently written about the elevated park built on an abandoned...
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Compost Dinner: A Zero-Waste Menu at Brooklyn Grange Farm
“This is phenomenal,” says my boyfriend Nate, tucking into a skewered and seared sausage laced with Thai lime and enjoying the panoramic views from the Brooklyn Grange’s rooftop farm. He catches a...
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Shopper’s Diary: Houseplants for Beginners from The Sill in NYC
Eliza Blank’s first New York City apartment was the proverbial 200-square-foot studio facing a brick wall. Her quarters made her long for a bit of nature—and gave her a new appreciation for her...
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Color Theory: 10 Perfect Plant Combinations for Autumn
“I don’t do frilly,” says curator Diane Schaub. We are standing under the shade of an old magnolia in the English garden, one of three smaller gardens within Central Park’s six-acre Conservatory Garden...
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Spring’s Trees at Historic Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn
Spring in New York City is exciting for anyone who vibrates to the pitch of trees greening and beginning to bloom. Streets are transformed. Branches bare and brown for months are softening with...
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Winter Escape: The Warm World of the BBG’s Conservatories
In the cold months we crave a holiday. Just a break. A different view. New smells. Exotic plants. An atmosphere that draws the chill from our bones. And we can’t always travel. But—at least for those...
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10 Questions with Cathy Deutsch, Director of Horticulture at Wave Hill
Cathy Deutsch never expected to be a gardener. “I stumbled upon fine gardening almost by accident at Wave Hill,” said the Riverdale, NY, garden’s fourth director of horticulture and first woman to hold...
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Manhattan Transfer: The Morgan Library Picks Up the Baton in Museum Garden...
It’s a generous act to share a garden with passersby, keeping the perimeters transparent instead of hiding interesting things behind a privacy screen. When a museum allows its garden to be visible from...
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8 Ideas to Steal from the Brooklyn Museum’s Lawn-Turned-Meadow
When landscape designer Brook Klausing, the founder of Brook Landscape, was asked to reimagine the front entrance of the Brooklyn Museum, there wasn’t much in the way of a garden to work with. “The...
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Nature’s Defense: An Abandoned Former Military Site on the Rockaway Peninsula
Looking out the window of a descending airplane can give the impression (in the United States at least) that the approaching airport has been carved out of abundant wilderness, a preview of the...
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Six Weeks in the Life of an Experimental Meadow
Where would you expect to find a meadow filled with native flowers and grasses, where once an expanse of lawn grew? In a suburban front yard, as the short-back-and-sides neighbors give the gardener’s...
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