A small patch of the green stuff may be just the sort of versatile ingredient your garden needs.

Thinking about renovating? A Pattern Language is the definitive renovator’s “bible.”

Cut flowers from the garden or corner store are a fine if conventional way to bring summer indoors, but bedding plants, plentiful everywhere just now, make equally attractive and more novel arrangements.

Contemporary bed making requires a skill practiced by the military and hospital and hotel staff. Here’s how to do it right the right way.   DO IT RIGHT | The wedding cake bed—you know, the ultrafeminine one (pictured here) with a frothy meringue of duvet, pleated bed skirt and rows of European shams racked up against the headboard—may not be passé, but it is not what’s currently hot in bedding. What’s in fashion in bedding right now is a tailored, masculine effect, characterized by lean, clean lines and multiple layers of fitted sheets and flat covers drawn in tight to

Blueberry shrubs are easy to grow, attractive year round—and, of course, produce delicious berries. Here’s where to buy them for less.

The long-lasting Phalaenopsis and Cymbidium orchids, in myriad colours, are gaining ground on the traditional Easter lily.

Most of us are fastidious about changing bed linens, but pillows often fall by the wayside. Here’s how to keep them sweet and fluffy.

Designer Brendan Power explains how to make these classic tabletop art supports for small images from simple blocks of wood.

How the late, great British designer Sir David Hicks used Plain Jane planter boxes to create a spectacular pot garden at his home in England.

Forget about the colour of your parachute. We ask, what colour is your washcloth? If it isn’t black, it’s wack!