Garden Island Adventures
Kauai, the oldest of the eight main Hawaiian Islands, is the most lush and topographically diverse. Because of abundant rainfall at its Mount Waialeale, thousands of years of topsoil, and ideal growing...
Guiding Sight Lines
WHEN TORONTO-BASED DESIGNER MELANIE HAY FIRST TOURED THIS ETOBICOKE, ONTARIO HOME, WITH ITS DATED, CLOSED KITCHEN, FAMILY ROOM, AND ENTRYWAY, AND OUTFITTED IN CHUNKY ORANGE WOOD, PANELED WALLS, AND YELLOW...
In Their Element
Ancient Roman philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero’s much-quoted line—“if you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need”—still rings as true in the twenty-first century as it did circa...
From Garden to Table Part 2
Get the recipes here: From Garden to Table Part 2
Tropical Paradise
When landscape architect Craig Reynolds first sees a project, one of three things runs through his mind. “Sometimes it’s a project that I can see the vision immediately and I need to get it down on paper...
Love that Lavender
“I long to be in a house where the sheets smell of lavender,” wrote Izaak Walton, the seventeenth-century author of The Compleat Angler. Indeed, lavender has been valued for centuries for its ornamental,...
From Garden to Table
Get the recipes for homemade croutons and peach caprese salad with shrimp here.
A Star is Reborn
If George and Jane Jetson were seeking a new home, they may have gravitated toward this property, famously made of glass and corrugated steel, in the San Mateo Highlands of California. It was designed in 1956...