21+ hour, 10+ min ago   (610+ words) Three concrete steps once connected the front door to the yard, with white metal railings enclosing the narrow route. Past the bottom step, the entrance stopped at a patch of lawn beside established ornamental grasses and shrubs. The homeowner, Reddit…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (552+ words) Pinecones make an easy fall display, especially when they are free from the yard. A bowl, basket, or centerpiece is usually where they end up once they come indoors. There is a reason to hold off before putting them on…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (808+ words) Cinder blocks became both the structure and the planters in this staggered garden wall. Instead of stacking every block into straight rows, Kate Simmons turned several outward, creating projecting pockets that appear to float from the face of the wall....

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (711+ words) Patchy lawn once ran from the house toward a weathered timber fence, with a sloped section taking up much of the back of the yard. A narrow brick edge followed the change in grade, but the lower section had no…...

4+ day, 57+ min ago   (385+ words) Most garden paths create one continuous surface from one end to the other. This garden takes another approach, leaving gravel exposed between individual stones instead of filling the route with concrete or tightly fitted pavers. Irregular stepping stones create the…...

6+ day, 6+ min ago   (605+ words) Patchy grass occupied most of this small front yard, squeezed between the sidewalk, front steps, house, and narrow path leading to the side gate. Brown sections had spread through the lawn, while the foundation offered no planting to connect the…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (666+ words) Weathering steel starts at ground level in these gardens, then keeps going. It borders flower beds, holds water, crosses gravel in narrow channels, rises into walls, and bends overhead into garden structures. The brown-orange surface ties those features together without…...

1+ week, 32+ min ago   (691+ words) Concrete paving covered almost every part of this 4-by-4-meter courtyard in Utrecht, Netherlands. Apart from narrow timber sections beside the house and greenery along the fence, the compact space offered almost no ground for a garden. Square concrete slabs…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (327+ words) Cork sold in a roll starts as a plain sheet, but a leaf template changes what it can do on a fall table. Instead of cutting the material into standard circles or squares, the cork follows broad leaf outlines that…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (356+ words) After caring for the same houseplant for about a year, Facebook user April Harbinson spotted something she hadn’t seen before. A pale, pointed growth was pushing up between the stems, but it didn’t look like the colorful leaves the plant…...