The Cultivated Life: Introducing Gardenista - Gardenista
Remodelista started as a group of friends sharing ideas about remodeling. That’s the premise of Gardenista, where we’ll be covering all kinds of gardens—ours and yours. We’ll take you to rooftops and backyards and fire escapes and country estates and rent-a-plots on the outskirts of cities. There’s been a climate change in the way we think about what it means to live outdoors. More of our conversations these days are about our gardens. Sarah, who lives in the Napa Valley, presides over two vegetable beds (she’s awaiting the arrival of the season’s first arugula). Photo by Aya Brackett for Remodelista. As for me, I learned everything important in a garden. From my grandmother, I learned the right way to organize color in a perennial bed, and from my father’s garden, I learned to break all those rules. At Remodelista, we love tomatoes on the fire escape as much as Vita Sackville-West’s white garden; we believe the arugula Sarah is growing will taste better than any she could buy. Photograph by Aya Brackett. And now we’re thrilled to be having the conversation with you, too, to open a forum where our readers can share gardening stories (and queries) with us—please, tip us off if you find a useful new tool or come up with a strategy for keeping the deer away from your roses. We’ve always believed the best advice comes from like-minded friends. Photograph by Clementine Quittner. Michelle Slatalla, Gardenista editor.