Kendra Wilson

Oxford

Garden and Design Writer at Freelance

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Articles

Rethinking Artemesia's Status as a Weed

4 weeks ago | gardenista.com | Kendra Wilson

The name “mugwort” in the US is a signifier for “invasive,” but when grown purposefully, the aromatic section of the Artemisia genus has much to recommend it. Some species are native in regions of the western United States and are much loved by ecological gardeners, while others are grown for their feathery or felty foliage. Southernwood or wormwood, sagebrush or artemisia (which is what it’s called in the UK), mugwort has many guises.
Reinstate Ben & Jerry’s CEO David Stever

1 month ago | change.org | Kendra Wilson

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How to Grow Ribes Sanguineum

1 month ago | gardenista.com | Kendra Wilson

Flowering currant is a classic example of a serviceable American plant that, when transported to different continents, takes on a personality that is unrecognizable. In the UK, Ribes sanguineum has an old-fashioned British garden look, primly clothed in pendant racemes of magenta. Traditionally they have been paired to clash with the solid yellows of spring, supplied by shrubby forsythia and King Alfred daffodils.
Save Elizabeth Street Garden, Lower East Side's Most Charming Park

2 months ago | gardenista.com | Kendra Wilson

It’s a crucial moment in the fight to save Elizabeth Street Garden. A hearing for the appeal against a decision to allow the city to evict and close the garden was heard last week, and the jury is literally out. Will the eccentric, much-loved and—most importantly—much-used garden be saved, or will it be lost forever to development? As a former resident who would make detours just to pass this intriguing space, I can say that this isn’t just a knee-jerk “not in my backyard” reaction.
'Not Really a Garden at All"

2 months ago | gardenista.com | Kendra Wilson

The gardeners featured in Pastoral Gardens, a weighty new compendium that has been self-published by photographer Andrew Montgomery and garden editor Clare Foster, are mainly British. But when the pair crossed the Atlantic to document several East Coast landscapes designed by European superstars, they also took in White Hollow, a five-acre property in Litchfield County, Connecticut, owned and looked after by the artist John-Paul Philippe.
A Photography Exhibit Featuring Dreamy Flowers

Jan 24, 2025 | gardenista.com | Kendra Wilson

Anyone traveling into New York City from one of the nearby airports can see that here is a natural wetland—one that happens to support millions of people. Rivers and waterways define the lay of the land, feeding into the very close Atlantic Ocean. So photographer Mary Mattingly’s Night Gardens (now showing at Robert Mann Gallery on 26th Street), in which groupings of plants are imagined in a riparian environment, is very much connected with reality.
A Visit to the Herb and Medicinal Urban Garden

Dec 31, 2024 | gardenista.com | Kendra Wilson

A mead refresher: This alcoholic bracer made from fermented honey has medieval associations. Paired in the fermenting process with any combination of botanicals, unusual fruit and wild yeasts, modern mead can be sparkling, frizzante, dry, sweet, or a star performer in cocktails. Mead in its many forms can be sampled at Honey’s Bar, the tasting room of Enlightenment Wines Meadery in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Note to Developers: Every Mixed Use Skyscraper Needs a Grow Room

Dec 18, 2024 | gardenista.com | Kendra Wilson

Recently opened: the first phase of 505 State Street, featuring a Grow Room filled with plants and natural light. Run without fossil fuels, the 44-story building is touted as New York’s first all-electric skyscraper, which our photographer Valery Rizzo refers to as “the Flatiron of Brooklyn.” Later phases will include two public schools that meet Passive House standards; there are already offices and retail on site.
Practice Landscape Converts a Barn Into a Walled Garden in the Midwest

Dec 3, 2024 | gardenista.com | Kendra Wilson
A Park Built on a Landfill, Now Teeming With Wildlife

Nov 6, 2024 | gardenista.com | Kendra Wilson

Unless you’re from Staten Island, chances are you’ve never been to the borough, except to take the ferry there to see the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, only to turn around again. Even its moniker, Borough of Parks, is not well known, but it’s well-deserved, since one third of Staten Island (which is bigger than Manhattan, just across the Hudson River) is devoted to park land.