Secrets from the Lost Kitchen: How to Arrange Flowers like a Self-Taught Maine Chef — <p>When I reach Erin French by phone to talk about her flower-arranging tips, she’s holding the phone in one hand and twining vines and arranging flowers for her own wedding with the…
found a 1967 fastback in someone's garage that hasn't run since 1994. the owner just... forgot about it? 🚗 spent an afternoon looking at it and honestly the rust pattern was kind of beautiful
Your Key to Success Isn't More Luck or Hard Work — Hard work is grinding and only partly reliable. Luck is random by definition. Research on who you know is far more specific than most networking advice.
Astronomers Peered at the Early Universe and May Have Discovered a New Kind of Celestial Object: Black Hole Stars — Since the James Webb Space Telescope started collecting data in 2022, it has found puzzling objects dubbed little red dots. A new study suggests they might be…
The Best Midcentury Modern Outdoor Chairs by Iconic Designers — If you're looking to furnish your garden with design classics from midcentury designers and architects, here are our favorite classic outdoor chair designs.
Gardens Are For People (And Bats): A Memorable Chelsea Flower Show Garden - Gardenista — At the Chelsea Flower Show a few years ago, the top prize went to an installation called "A Rewilding Britain Landscape." The word "landscape" was telling:
Apple weekend deals: AirPods Pro 3, MacBook Pro up to $400 off, Series 11 $130 off, chargers, bands, more - 9to5Mac — We are landing for another weekend edition of 9to5Toys Lunch Break to highlight the summer price drop on AirPods Pro...
Best robot lawn mower deal: Save 34% on the EcoVacs Goat 01000 — Spend 15 minutes setting it up, and that'll be the end of your work during mowing season.
Behind a Victorian Townhouse in East London, a Lush Garden and Natural Pool Await — <p>When homes come with their own slice of nature, fluid indoor-outdoor living is often the goal—but that wasn’t the case for one traditional Victorian in East London. “We…
Current Obsessions: The Joy of Color — <p>We have color and joy on the brain this weekend: pretty palettes, rose arbors, cherry-topped cakes, pattern plays galore. And, of course, blue and orange, too. (Let’s go, Knicks!) This week we’ve been eyeing all things Scandin
Ask the Experts: What Are Your Moments of Joy in the Garden? - Gardenista — This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to ecological gardening, on how you can be more sustainable in your landscapes a
Mystery hominin left big footprints at ancient lake in Africa — Over 1.4 million years ago, a group of eight ancient hominins walked across a shallow mudflat, but their footprints don’t match those of Paranthropus boisei or Homo erectus
Your Amazon Echo doesn't stop listening when Wi-Fi dies—here's what's actually happening — Wi-Fi failures, internet outages, and microphone muting affect your Echo in very different ways.
A rare two-player Computer Space arcade machine is up for auction — The sparkly cabinet is part of a huge retro tech auction focused on Steve Jobs and the computer revolution.
Cottage Garden Visit: ‘Lush and Exuberant’ on Cape Cod — <p>Turns out there is something more romantic than a rose-covered cottage: two 19th-century, rose-covered cottages, united by a rambling garden of wild natives, exuberant perennials, and more than 80 heirloom…
Current Obsessions: June Hues — <p>Ahead this weekend: Scandi itineraries, newly opened gardens, and strawberry season in sight. Read on: Oooh, new antiques just landed at our favorite new online shop for unique outdoor furniture and accessories, Gallerie Green. (Read Margot̵
Garden Visit: Jefferson Market Garden in Greenwich Village - Gardenista — Nestled at the foot of a Victorian-Gothic confection designed by Frederick Clarke Withers and enclosed by an ornate wrought iron fence dedicated by Brooke
Homegrown Heroes: 7 Tips for Growing Perfect Tomatoes — <p>No homegrown vegetable gets more love than the tomato. While you can buy corn, carrots, eggplants, and peppers from farmers’ markets and CSAs that taste the same as home-grown, tomatoes are special. Maybe…
Benton End: A New Era for Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines' Garden — The garden at Benton End has been revived after a pair of philanthropists with vision bought the property and part-gifted it to the Garden Museum.
Gardening 101: Delphinium — <p>Once, some delphinium seeds secretly entered my garden and a few tall and very blue flowers emerged. I appreciated their stealth introduction, as well as their sweetly stacked blossoms and palmate leaves. But because I am such a worrier and I knew…
A TV critic spent three years documenting every continuity error in The Office. Some are brutal. 😅
Pacific Horticulture | Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success — Over 460 million years ago, plants and mycorrhizal fungi formed a beneficial relationship below the soil surface that nurtured and protected plants while feeding the fungi and other organisms i
Deadheading Basics: How to Keep the Flowers Coming — <p>If you want your borders or pots abundant with blooms for as long as possible, then there is one thing you cannot avoid: deadheading. Snipping off spent blooms is how you keep roses blooming right into winter (in my…
Ask the Experts: How to Ask Your Landscaper to Implement Nature-Based Land Care — <p>This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to ecological gardening, on how you can be more sustainable in your landscapes at home. For more than 80…
Mini Essay: Letting Go — <p>Not long ago, Margot and I went to a screening of a documentary about preserving the modernist houses in New Canaan, Connecticut. Afterwards, there was a Q+A with the filmmaker, who knows these houses intimately, having spent her childhood in one.…
Current Obsessions: Summer, Slower — <p>On our minds this first weekend of August? Limited-edition woven baskets, reasons to add stripes to your interiors, an appealing DIY light, and more. Read on: Floral arrangement inspo, summer edition (hat tip: Annie). ORCA debuted an…
The Porsche 911 was almost killed by its own engine placement... then someone showed why rear-mounted actually works. Technically brilliant, not quite what anyone expected.
The Editors’ Cut: 9 Finds for a Portable Summer - Gardenista — Welcome to The Editors’ Cut, our monthly column dedicated to beautiful and useful finds for all over the house. In this installment: In summer, we're big p
2026 Chelsea Flower Show: The Beauty of Imperfection in the Children's Society Garden — The garden for The Children's Society, by Patrick Clarke, takes a refreshingly grown-up approach to the kind of outdoor space for nurturing young people.
Current Obsessions: Staycation — <p>What are you up to this holiday weekend? Whether you’re roadtripping, at the beach, or staying put, hope you keep cool and enjoy. And for your poolside or porch scrolling, here are 18 things we’re eyeing: This cake is an ode to…
Bistort: How to Grow the Pink Flowering Perennial — In the early summer garden of Tinder Hearth, the bakery and restaurant set amid green fields outside Brooksville, Maine, I waited recently with my husband
The Wire spent an entire season on the school system and basically nobody watched it until years later. Still relevant how that works
Current Obsessions: On the Water — <p>Ahead this weekend? A houseboat spa, a ceramics exhibit, an unexpected host gift, and more. Read on: “For so long, I thought gardening required some secret expertise I didn’t possess. An encyclopedic understanding of plant genera and…
found out my grandpa's been rebuilding the same 1967 chevy for 30 years and has never driven it once. when i asked why he said the point was always just having something to work toward
Odd Lots: How Substack Creators Are Thinking About AI (Podcast) — We closed out our New York live show on May 28 with a panel that featured three of our favorite Substackers: James van Geelen of Citrini Research, Sam Ro, founder of The TKer, and journalist Jasmine Sun. They’ve…
‘Wow, it really worked!’: the 70s TV show that’s causing worldwide panic – 50 years later — When UK mockumentary Alternative 3 tried to spook viewers that scientists were vanishing as part of a sinister space plot it succeeded. Today, the resulting conspiracy theory has even…
How NASA’s Artemis III Lander Test Will Pave Way for Moon Landings - NASA — Before Artemis astronauts land on the Moon’s surface in 2028, NASA will conduct the Artemis III demonstration mission in 2027, allowing teams on Earth and in
Robot vacuum deals are live ahead of Memorial Day — the Shark AV2501S AI Ultra robot vacuum is under $300 — Dust and dirt stand no chance.
Summer Outdoor Planter Inspiration from Terrain's New 'The Container Garden Book' — Here are five beautiful and unique plant combinations for your summer planter, courtesy of 'Terrain: The Container Garden Book.'
Required Reading: 'The Gravel Garden' Demystifies Dry Gardening - Gardenista — Most seasoned gardeners have heard about gravel gardening (or dry gardening), but chances are they haven’t tried it yet. A gorgeous new book, The Gravel Ga
10 Things Nobody Tells You About Sedum — <p>I have been a devotee of sedums for several years, adding them to all sorts of gardens, and this appreciation just keeps growing as new varieties emerge on the scene. I’m not alone. National Garden Bureau named 2026 the Year of th
Landscape on a Budget: The $250 Instant Rose Garden — <p>A rose garden was not part of the plan when we remodeled our house. And certainly not an instant rose garden. I did not wake up one morning and think, “Today would be a good day to fill the garden with roses…
Introducing: The Oris Lou Gehrig Limited Edition — In the middle of baseball season, Oris releases a new LE to support a good cause.
just realized the entire third season of this show was shot in one apartment and you literally cannot tell!!
‘Not up for grabs’: Albanese establishes AI office and vows to protect Australian creatives from copyright ‘theft’ — PM lays out plan for datacentre development and rejects prospect tech companies will be given free use of Australian data
The Life Amphibian: A Garden That Has a Place for Everything—Even Weeds and Frogs — <p>If there’s one way to spot an American abroad when visiting their house or garden, it’s in the design efficiency. Just as Americans introduced heat and comfort to English country…
Why have US-Lebanon direct flights been banned for 40 years? — Why have US-Lebanon direct flights been banned for 40 years?
Bond Traders on Edge as Risks of Fed Rate Hike This Week Mount — Bond traders enter the week seeing a better than one-in-three chance that the Federal Reserve hikes interest rates on Wednesday after flaring Middle East tensions lifted oil prices, boosting inflation worries and…
unpopular opinion but the shows everyone binged during lockdown were actually just fine, we were just desperate, the pacing was mid and we rewrote it in our heads
Typhoon Bavi pummels China’s eastern coast — Dramatic video captured the moment waves caused by Typhoon Bavi slammed into a house in China’s Zhejiang province.
The Atlas Obscura Guide to Seeing the Northern Lights — <h2>Choose a place worth the trip even if the sky does nothing.</h2> <p>Here is the failure mode nobody warns you about.</p> <p>You book a week in a country you chose because it appeared on a list of the best places to see…
What to Do in the Garden in July — <p>In the garden, July is a month with a split personality: We look back wistfully (at the successes of spring) and forward with trepidation (can this garden be saved, to withstand the heat that’s ahead). Here are a few quick garden…
Extra, Extra: An Exclusive Offer at a Shop We Love, June Edition — <p>It’s Midsommar—the summer solstice. And this month we’re serving up an exclusive discount from the fittingly named Sommerhus, a newly opened shop in Carpinteria, California—and, happily, online,…
Psst…What We Loved this July — <p>Welcome to Psst, where each month the Remodelista and Gardenista editors share an inside look at what we’ve been reading, watching, coveting, pinning, visiting, and otherwise loving lately. Without further ado, a glimpse of what we’ve…
Common Milkweed 101: Grow this Beautifully Chaotic Native Perennial — <p>What is a chaotic native perennial? The concept of chaos-gardening is trending (think of it as re-wilding, rebranded for 2026). And if you have ever grown common milkweed you are nodding and smiling,…
Ask the Experts: Just How Bad Are Conventional Lawn Maintenance Practices? — <p>This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to ecological gardening, on how you can be more sustainable in your landscapes at home. We’ve all seen the artificially…
Quick Takes With: Leanne Kilroy — <p>Ever since American expats Leanne Kilroy and her husband, Eric Fulwiler, purchased a dilapidated Victorian in London six years ago, they’ve been in near-constant renovation mode, whether it’s planning for one, in the midst of…
Gardening 101: The Low-Maintenance Fireworks of Liatris spicata — <p>The feathery, festive blazing stars—the common name for species of Liatris—are some of summer’s most spectacular North American perennials. Tall stems, vivid electric-purple flowers, and a ceaseless…
New Samsung TVs will support HDR10+ Advanced streaming on Prime Video starting this month — The main features of HDR10+ Advanced include Enhanced Overall Brightness and Intelligent Motion Smoothing.
Current Obsessions: Summer Lull — <p>Hope you’re keeping cool and taking care this July weekend. Ahead, for your consideration: a new Brooklyn outpost with a great garden, a lightweight cotton duvet cover we love, and an escape in the Yucatán that makes us feel cooler…