Week in Review: Inching Toward Spring

This week we made a dated cut glass vase look good, fantasized about strolling through stately gardens, and learned the nitty-gritty about Pennsylvania bluestone. Next week we’re working in the kitchen garden, but until then here are a few things we’ve loved lately:

• We introduced a new Monday column: a Table of Contents to give you a brief outline of what’s to come each week on Gardenista.
• Get your vegetable seeds started now. And in case you’re looking for a spot to sprout them, see Erin’s tutorial on how to make newspaper pots.
• We’re compiling a Gardenista Field Guide. First entry? The “Early Riser.”
  
• Our friends at Heath in Los Angeles are hosting a launch party for Judy Kameon’s new book, Gardens Are For Living, on March 15 from 6-8 pm. For more info on the book see Lindsey Taylor’s post Required Reading: Gardens Are For Living.
• We’re looking forward to signs of spring and giving away $1,000 shopping spree to Terrain as well as a Gardenista-curated gift package to one lucky reader (shiny copper gardening accessories included). Details on how to enter are right here.
• You decide: Is cut glass making a comeback?
• If you were Winston Churchill during WWII, this is where you’d spend your weekends.
• A little something luxe for potted plants.
• We’re fawning over Kaufmann Mercantile’s Spring Gardening Refresher.
• It’s plain to see why this spot is a favorite of Sofia Coppola’s. 
  
• We fell for these zero-gravity vases by Tangent & Glow spotted on Design Milk. What’s the trick? Magnets.
• Going for a more refined look? Consider a garden urn.
• We don’t believe that there’s such a thing as too much marble. But if you’re not ready to make the commitment, a marble trivet is ideal for marmoreal accents. If a small marble trivet doesn’t cut it, see Remodelista’s roundup of 10 exotic marble bathrooms and Michelle’s hunt for a one-of-a-kind marble table.

For more from this week on Gardenista, see the entire Grand Gardens issue. And if you haven’t seen them already, don’t miss the stories in Remodelista’s Velvet Underground. (We’re especially fond of these dip-dyed walls and this kitchen from a designer with “shit loads of talent.”)