Natural Living: How Integrating Your Outdoor and Home Spaces Can Be Good for Your Health and the Planet

Living through a lockdown taught many that the connection to nature is central to our sense of well-being. Heather Hebert, Editor-at-Large of SPACES, spoke with five industry leaders on how homeowners and community members can utilize outdoor spaces, connect with nature, and care for the earth. Residential Spaces Are Emphasizing the Benefits of Gathering Outdoors […]

Natural Living: How Integrating Your Outdoor and Home Spaces Can Be Good for Your Health and the Planet

Living through a lockdown taught many that the connection to nature is central to our sense of well-being. Heather Hebert, Editor-at-Large of SPACES, spoke with five industry leaders on how homeowners and community members can utilize outdoor spaces, connect with nature, and care for the earth. Residential Spaces Are Emphasizing the Benefits of Gathering Outdoors […]

Hundreds of Private Gardens Are Open to the Public This Summer — Including Many in the Bay Area

Artist John Priola has a passion for succulents. His garden in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood includes roughly 50 varieties, all of which he planted himself: Euphorbia Lambii, Agave Applanata “Cream Spike,” Aloe Vanbalenii, Agave Vilmoriniana “Stained Glass,” and Dymondia, to name a few. Most of Priola’s succulents have been rescued from families that no […]

Tomatoes, Passion Flowers, Kumquats and More: It’s Spring Year-Round at this Tudor Home with a Bespoke Victorian Greenhouse

Every summer at a stately Tudor Revival home in Madison, Wisconsin, the house manager created magnificent gardens and container arrangements that filled the property with color, scent and flavor.    Every winter his work succumbed to the fierce cold, and he started over again in the spring.   After a few such cycles, the homeowner […]

3 Design Experts Share Their Best Tips for Maximizing Your Outdoor Spaces

“The Art of Living Outdoors,” a SPACES live virtual event, brought together three experts on design and gardening to discuss how Covid-19 has changed outdoor living. Jesse Harrison, principal of the international design firm Harrison Design ; Heather Sandy Hebert, brand consultant and author of At Home in the Wine Country; and Ben Lenhardt, author […]