We’re thrilled to announce our new book, Gardenista: The Definitive Guide to Outdoor Spaces, a companion volume to Remodelista: A Manual for the Considered Home. For the past two years, we’ve been working behind the scenes, gathering all of Gardenista’s best design ideas—and visiting dozens of our friends’ gardens from London to LA with our talented photographer, Brooklyn-based Matthew Williams, who captured every image in the book.
Here’s what Rita Konig, the UK designer and contributing editor to the New York Time’s T Magazine, says about the book (and we hope you’ll like it as much): “It’s a book of all the people whose taste I most covet and their gardens rather than a volume of gardens designed by garden designers. It makes me feel, at least, that I too can achieve some of this loveliness in my own backyard. The thing that I love about it is that I feel it is speaking directly to me rather than a gardener’s language—already I want to rush home and start digging.”
Gardenista: A Manual for the Considered Home is available in shops nationwide; order your copy today (see ordering information below) and help us on our mission to demystify good design. Excerpts from recent reviews and links to the full stories below.
“These well-loved spaces are also well lived-in. Slatalla is warm, approachable, lively—and chic. But she lets us in on everyone’s secrets with sections labeled ‘Steal This Look.’ . . . She suggests ideas for paths, fire pits and foot showers, tips for drainage solutions, and a shopping directory that made me reach for my credit card.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Gardenista achieves the difficult task of being hip and accessible.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Packed full of tasteful gardens that offer a welcome escapism from your own sodden/boring/non-existent (delete as appropriate) garden….The section offering seven classic garden planting palettes is particularly useful.”—The Guardian (UK)
“Slatalla’s forte is dogged research to come up with topics often a touch eccentric coupled with a storyteller’s charming ways. This coffee-table book is that: 13 beautifully photographed gardens in the United States (including one in Austin), England and the Netherlands; useful additions to a standard backyard; 100 favorite everyday objects; and a hefty source list from antiques to seeds.”—Dallas News
“This book is brand new and inspiring! Featuring beautiful gardens, planting guides, and design ideas, it would look great sitting out on the coffee table.”—Garden Design
“There really is something for anyone interested in horticulture and outdoor living—stylish gardens and exterior spaces, DIY projects, a shopping guide to top products, and expert tips.”—Boston Globe
“The best coffee table reading of the season …The pages inside give you access to some of the most glamorous green spaces from Isabel Marant’s own LA oasis to London interiors maven Rose Uniacke’s artfully designed conservatory, along with solid advice on how to, in true Gardenista style, ‘steal the look.’”—Goop
“Aided by 480 color photographs, this beautiful book showcases innovative gardening concepts based upon real homes”—Publishers Weekly
“Includes lushly photographed tours of 12 enviable gardens and planning guides for a variety of climates and colour palettes. The most gorgeous gardening book I’ve seen in ages.”—The Bookseller (U.K.)
“As visually enchanting as it is brimming with practical advice”—BookPage
“Timely topics, including creating a stylish outdoor space”—Better Homes & Gardens
“Full page pictures illustrate the terrific ideas offered by this first book from the team behind Gardenista.com.”—The Herald, (Glasgow, Scotland)
“If you love Gardenista.com, sister site to Remodelista.com, you’ll be as happy as I am to have a photo-rich look-book for modernist gardens in hand. The focus is international, with up-to-the minute planting ideas, including lots of tempting DIY projects.”—Seattle Times
“This book is brand new and inspiring! Featuring beautiful gardens, planting guides, and design ideas, it would look great sitting out on the coffee table.”—Garden Design
“A big bouquet of ideas that you can digest over the winter and use to inspire your own outdoor space come spring.”—Toronto Star
“Whether you dabble at gardening or a full-on fanatic, it never hurts to have a beautiful source of inspiration. In Gardenista: The Definitive Guide to Stylish Outdoor Spaces, author Michelle Slatalla, editor in chief at the online gardening sourcebook of the same name, has gathered up the site’s best outdoor design ideas, along with those of friends from London to Los Angeles.”—The Florida Times-Union
“A lot of inspirational vignettes and do-it-yourself projects that can tempt even the most frugal of us”—The Ottawa Citizen
“Perfect inspiration for dreaming about next spring’s gardens”—Midwest Living
“For anyone about to embark on a garden project, this book is a must-have.”—A Little Bird
“Full page pictures illustrate the terrific ideas offered by this first book from the team behind Gardenista.com.”—Shropshire Star
“A resource that offers in-depth garden tours, myriad design ideas and the firm belief that your outdoor space should be as carefully considered as your living room.”—Homes and Property (U.K.)
“The beauty in this book may very well be its generous nature. Gardeners, as a rule, like to share tips and ideas and other garden goodies and this book embraces that same spirit.”—Marin Independent Journal
Ordering Information
Gardenista: The Definitive Guide to Stylish Outdoor Spaces is available in bookstores in the United States, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. (If you live in Europe or Asia, you can order the book from your local Amazon site or Book Depository.)
US: Order a signed copy from Terrain. Other retailers include Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Powell’s Books, and specialty stores. To find your closest independent bookstore, visit IndieBound.
Canada: Retailers include Amazon Canada, Indigo (Canada), McNally Robinson, independent bookstores, and specialty stores.
UK: Retailers include Amazon UK, Waterstones, and Book Depository.
Australia: Retailers include Booktopia, Book Depository, independent bookstores, and specialty stores.
New Zealand: Retailers include Fishpond and to find a stockist near you, visit BookReps New Zealand.
