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A low-maintenance garden of agaves, cactus and fan palms in gravel beside a rendered wall, planted in repeated groups so it needs almost no watering

The Lazy Person’s Lush Garden

Leave a Comment / Gardens / Gilbert de Cuba

Let’s be honest about something the gardening world rarely admits: most of us don’t want to garden. We want to have gardened. We want the green, the shade, the birds, the courtyard-jungle feeling — without surrendering every Saturday to it. Good news: that garden exists. And the first thing to get straight is that lush […]

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A small plunge pool set into a walled courtyard with water spouts, a low daybed and an olive tree in a terracotta pot at dusk

Why Small Pools Are the Big Idea

Leave a Comment / Poolside Living / Gilbert de Cuba

Somewhere along the way, we decided a pool had to be big to count. Olympic lanes. Diving depth. A deep end nobody ever swims to. Here’s the quiet revolution happening in backyards from Marbella to Medellín: the pools are shrinking, and life around them is getting bigger. The case for compact A small pool —

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