Indoor & Outdoor Entertaining in your Garden

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Recipes, centerpieces, and landscaping inspiration for entertaining indoors and out.

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Q&A With Terence Conran

Garden Cocktails

Four herb and vegetable cocktails.

Francine Gardner's City Style

Paris-Inspired Flowers

A layered arrangement takes its cues from Paris.

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First Lady of Flowers

By Paul O'Donnell

Dorothy Biddle was a pioneer in the world of American flower arranging, traveling around the country by bus and train from the late 1940s to the late 1950s, encouraging Americans everywhere to grow and arrange their own flowers. Her legacy lives on today in her company, Dorothy Biddle Service, run by her granddaughter, which continues to sell flower arranging supplies—now on the Internet.

Open Invitation: Beverly Hills Glamour, Photo Gallery

By Deb Schwartz

A slide show of a Beverly Hills garden makeover, designed by Judy Kameon.

City Style: The Style of New York's Interieurs

By Katie Mendelson

Francine Gardner, owner of New York's Intérieurs, shows our writer Katie Mendelson how a few inspired finds can turn a city rooftop into an urban oasis.

From Garden to Table: Zucchini Bread

By Katie Mendelson

Zucchini is a bumper crop for almost every gardener who chooses to grow it. In today's From Garden to Table column, Katie Mendelson shares a recipe for zucchini bread from the Morning Glory Farm cookbook, a book that grew out of a favorite farm stand on Martha's Vineyard, which is an institution on the island, beloved for its fresh vegetables.

The Good Host: Q & A with Terence Conran

By Stephen Treffinger

We chat with design legend Terence Conran about how he uses smart design to make his guests feel at home in the garden.

From Garden to Table: Strawberries and The Food Lover’s Garden

By Katie Mendelson

In our new column, we cook local bounty that's in season. Today, Katie Mendelson writes about Mark Diacono's The Food Lover's Garden, where he argues that "Life is too short to grow ordinary food," and shares the recipe for Diacono's Strawberry Scones.

Renovating the James Beard Garden, Week 5

By The Editors

In this week's post about the James Beard Garden renovation, we show the new refrigerators given by True Professional Series that have been installed in the garden, which will be used by the staff of the James Beard Foundation garden to store ingredients for cocktails and hors d'oeuvres outside.

Cocktail Recipes

By Elissa Altman

Four great cocktail recipes using fresh herbs and vegetables from the garden to try.

Farm to Table: Restaurants With Gardens

By Jane Lerner

Farm-to-table has become the ultimate food trend of the year. And for some restaurants, the path from farm to table is quite short—we highlight 11 restaurants from Seattle to Maine that are growing their produce for their recipes on their roof, in raised beds, in recycled tires, and in aeroponic towers for fresh, delicious, and truly local and seasonal cuisine.

The Royal Wedding: Flowers and Bouquet Update

By Claire Lui

The bouquet! The trees in Westminster Abbey! The bridesmaids' wreaths! (Oh, and did we mention that we did a DIY last week on almost exactly the same lily-of-the-valley wreaths? We wonder if the British Royal Family is reading gardendesign.com—welcome ma'am!)