House Doctor: Woven Bamboo Plant Baskets

A new outfit in February perks up anybody. That goes double for houseplants. If your little potted friends are looking droopy, pop them (pots and all) into a basket. We especially like what these natural-color bamboo bas

Studio Visit: At Home with Berlin's Star Florist, Annett Kuhlmann

Celebrity florist Annett Kuhlmann's stylish Berlin flower shop, Marsano, feels like the inevitable conclusion to a childhood spent picking flowers to make posies to sell on the road in front of her parentsR

Icy Pink Vases from Ceramist Bjarni Sigurdsson

A former banker who took an evening art class on a lark, Iceland-based ceramics designer Bjarni Sigurdsson experiments with unusual materials. A new collection of vases, for instance, is glazed in volcanic ashes. After t

City Gardens: MINI Terrariums from Brooklyn

From his Brooklyn-based studio designer Huy Bui co-created Plant-in City, a project to pair plants with sleek wood and metal to create a new kind of 21st-century terrarium. His latest venture is a new collection of stack

Living History: One of America's Oldest Greenhouses

Last weekend, while seeking a warm retreat from winter, the family and I chanced upon what turned out to be an historic and natural treasure in our own backyard. The Lyman Estate, located in Waltham, MA, just seven miles

DIY: Flowers in the House, 9 Ways

Something changes when you put fresh flowers in a room. Here are nine ideas for flowers to bring inside (while you're waiting for them to start blooming outdoors). Photography by Marie Viljoen. Spring Bulbs Above:

Mix-and-Match: Make Your Own Miniature Hanging Garden

We like the mix-and-match possibilities of miniature hanging gardens from Botany Folk: Above: Shallow terra cotta planters and dishes hang from rope to create a wall garden—or a window blind. Their narrow profile (plan

DIY: Grow an Indoor Compost Garden

Stews certainly help to take the chill out of winter. That's why we make a lot of these warm and hardy meals in our house. But it seems a shame to consign all the lovely leftover vegetable scraps–the roots, the bu

Pressed Flower Artworks from MR Studio London

UK-based designers Mike Pollard and Rika Yamasaki of MR Studio London use flowers and foliage to create old-fashioned pressed flower artworks that look entirely modern. "All the pressed flowers and foliage that fea

A Bewitching Trio of Wire Plant Stands

A trio of leggy wire plant stands will strike graceful ballerina poses–did they rehearse that?–in the corner of any room. When the weather improves, move the set outdoors or onto a covered porch. Spotted via New Zealand-

Click and Grow: A Miniature Herb Garden for a Kitchen Countertop

Food that you grow tastes better, period. This is true even if you don't have (1) outdoor space, (2) sunlight, or (3) a clue when it comes to gardening. For beginners, apartment dwellers, and anyone else who likes

A Splash of Springtime: New Colors for Heath Planters

Springtime means bud vases. (And planters for tiny, hopeful shoots. And tumblers that can hold bouquets.) Here's a sneak peek at new seasonal colors that go on sale today from San Francisco-based Heath Ceramics (an

Small Space Gardening: A Kit to Grow Windowsill Herbs

Inspired by their life in a tiny apartment, Chicago-based designers Nick Behr and Sarah Burrows devised a space-saving way to grow herbs—without a garden, soil, or a space bigger than a windowsill. Raising more than $60,

New from Ikea: A Hydroponic Countertop Garden Kit

With the introduction of Ikea's new Krydda/Växer Cultivation Kit, it's official: your countertop hydroponic garden is no longer a mere trend. The soil-free kitchen garden has gone mainstream. Starting last mo

Steal This Look: A Bohemian Screened Porch in Texas

Austin-based interior designer Ann Edgerton remodeled her family house on the Llano River in Texas "off highway 29, between Llano and Mason," she says. The house was initially a simple prefab home that she re

Studio Visit: Jamjar Flowers in London

When Melissa Richardson closed her London model agency seven years ago it was her childhood passion for flowers that inspired her to launch a second career—working with the sort of naturalistic flowers that she had colle

New from Ikea: A Terra Cotta Sprouter to Grow Microgreens

The first time Poland-based product designer Maja Ganszyniec got an email from Ikea inviting her to design products for a special collection, she read it "twice to make sure it was not spam." That was in 201

Handblown Glass: Dome Terrariums from Campo de' Fiori

Although the company is based in the Berkshires in Massachusetts, Campo de' Fiori specializes in mossy, aged terra cotta pots with a decidedly foreign flavor. (In fact, owners Robin Norris and Barbara Brockbader wo

Gift Guide: Tiny Topiaries for the Apartment Dweller

Is there someone on your holiday shopping list who doesn't have room for a full-size Christmas tree? Comfort that person with a mail-order mini. Here are five tiny topiaries that would look adorable draped with lit

The Orchid That Owned Me

The orchid was a housewarming present from my grandmother. It came from a quaint flower shop down the street that is owned by a neighborhood family. This gave my orchid an advantage over those on sale in the impulse-buy