Have you seen the post on my Instagram page @MarthaStewart48? I'm so thrilled to introduce to you MARTHA by Martha Stewart - my new signature collection of modern heirlooms comprised of distinctive and quality products I know you'll love.
My first offerings from this Collection include cookware that is now available exclusively on Martha.com. My Copper, Tri-Ply Stainless Steel, and Ceramic Non-Stick pieces are durable, versatile, and thoughtfully designed for both your everyday meals and special occasion masterpieces. Our entire team has been working extremely hard to create the very best chef-inspired and personally approved products for all your culinary needs. My MARTHA by Martha Stewart Collection will also expand to include more cookware and kitchen tools later this year, as well as apparel, gardening, and so much more.
Here are some photos, enjoy.
I am so proud to unveil and share with you this great Collection of products. Just go to my website Martha.com – it’s our “shop of shops” to get your cookware today. I can’t wait to hear what you think.
When selecting quality cookware, it is always a good idea to consider these important details – weight, size, handle grip and the metal. My team and I put all these pieces to the test in our professional kitchens and you’ll love using every one.
Our copper cookware was inspired by my personal copper pots and pans that I cherish and use all the time.
This collection features all the beauty and finesse of copper cookware along with the heat retention, temperature control, and nonreactive nature of top-quality construction.
Our own culinary EVP Thomas Joseph says, “its outstanding heat regulation makes it a good choice for delicate foods like fish, sauces, and risotto.”
Cook our mouth-watering classic risotto in our copper cookware —you’ll taste the difference!
If you’re a fan of stainless steel, elevate your everyday menus with our durable, chef-inspired Stainless Steel collection loaded with design innovations from our professional test kitchens and my own meticulous specifications.
Our pans feature premium 18/10 stainless steel tri-ply construction with a base-to-rim aluminum core that promotes quick heating, good heat retention, and consistently even cooking. Plus, we included angled extra-long handles for added control and maneuverability.
These pots and pans are perfect for making dishes that include sauces – try it for our quick and delicious shrimp pasta dish.
You can get so many wonderful recipes on our website, such as this linguine and shrimp.
And, if you are devoted to non-stick, replace your old, outdated pans with our abrasion-resistant, durable Ceramic Non-Stick that offers effortless food release without harmful chemical coatings.
Our Ceramic Non-Stick promotes consistently even heat. It’s ideal for healthier cooking with less oil and butter. Plus, the entire collection is suitable for any stovetop, including induction, and is oven safe to 550 degrees Fahrenheit.
Thomas adds that “it’s constructed of premium tri-ply stainless steel is extremely durable and excellent for even heat distribution on the stovetop and in the oven.”
If you love non-stick, these will be your favorites in the kitchen – pull them out for grilled cheese or that weekend morning omelet.
It's always so exciting to see how the gardens grow and thrive around my farm.
In 2020, we planted hundreds of hosta plants down behind my chicken coop yard across the carriage road from my allee of lilac. I first got the plants as bare-root cuttings and kept them in a cold frame for several months until they were big enough to transplant. In all, more than 700 hostas in a variety of cultivars including 'Wide Brim,' 'Francee,' 'Regal Splendor,' 'Elegans,' and 'Blue Angel.' Now two years later, they're doing excellently, filling the space with verdant foliage.
Here are some photos.
My plan was to plant lots and lots of hostas in this garden bed. Their lush green foliage, varying leaf shape, size, and texture, and their easy care requirements make them ideal for many areas.
Before planting, the hostas were strategically positioned and spaced, paying attention to variety, color, and growth habit.
Here they are after they were all planted in April of 2020. Remember the gardening rule of thumb – the first year the plants sleep, the second year they creep, and the third year they leap.
In the spring of last year, we mulched the entire area. The hostas are already looking quite strong. All the hostas are planted under a grove of dawn redwoods, Metasequoia. These trees grow faster than most trees. I planted these about 12 years ago.
And here are the hosta plants now – so big and so vibrant. Hosta is a genus of plants commonly known as hostas, plantain lilies, and occasionally by the Japanese name, giboshi.
Unlike many perennials, which must be lifted and divided every few years, hostas are happy to grow in place without much interference. In summer, blooms on long stalks extend up above the clumping hosta foliage.
Hostas are native to northeast Asia and include hundreds of different cultivars.
The plant flowers feature spikes of blossoms that look like lilies, in shades of lavender or white. The bell-shaped blooms can be showy and exceptionally fragrant.
These flowers have six tepals, six stamens, three cavities in the ovaries and the stigma at the top of the pistil has three lobes.
Here is a white hosta flower. Hosta flowers are also very attractive to hummingbirds and bees.
Hosta leaves rise up from a central rhizomatous crown to form a rounded to spreading mound. Most varieties tend to have a spread and height of between one and three feet.
Hosta leaf textures can be smooth, veined or puckered. Their surfaces may be matt, shiny or waxy but are usually satiny.
‘Elegans’ has huge, rounded, blue-gray leaves with white flowers that bloom mid-summer.
This variety is called ‘Francee’ with dark green, heart-shaped leaves and narrow, white margins. A vigorous grower, this hosta blooms in mid to late summer.
Some hosta clumps can grow to more than six feet across and four feet high.
This is ‘Wide Brim’ with its dark green leaves and wide, yellow, irregular margins. This variety prefers full shade for most of the day.
And this hosta has light green leaves with darker green margins.
Hostas thrive in sites where filtered or dappled shade is available for much of the day, but they can survive in deep shade.
And always make sure your hostas are planted in good, well-drained, nutrient-rich soil with compost, well-rotted manure, and phosphorous.
A shade garden need not be dull – experiment with shade-loving plants. Hostas, with their palette of so many different colors, textures, and sizes have tremendous landscape value and offer great interest to any garden. I am so pleased with how well this garden is doing.
Enjoy this encore blog posting which originally ran on July 1st, 2020. It features my visit to a wonderful plant nursery in Long Island, New York.
I'm always on the lookout for new and interesting plants and trees. I love visiting different nurseries to see what specimens they have for my ever-evolving Bedford, New York farm.
Last weekend during a brief trip to Long Island, I stopped by one of my favorite sources, Landcraft Environments, Ltd., a pre-eminent wholesaler of tropical, tender perennials, shrubs, bulbs, and unusual annuals located in Mattituck on the North Fork. Landcraft Environments is owned by garden designers Dennis Schrader and Bill Smith who have been in business together since 1982, initially specializing in landscape design. Realizing a tremendous need for unusual plant material, Dennis and Bill purchased the property in 1992 when it was just an overgrown potato and corn farm. Now, it features their beautifully restored 1840s farmhouse, a lovely four-acre public garden, and thousands of local and exotic plants from around the world - all encircled by 10 acres of rehabilitated meadows with mowed paths for viewing native plants and wildlife.
Enjoy the photos Kevin Sharkey and I took. Dennis and Bill also formed the Landcraft Garden Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to inspiring, educating, and promoting gardening, horticulture, and the preservation of its natural environment. Follow Dennis and Bill on their Instagram pages @Landcraft_environments_ltd and @Landcraft_garden_foundation. For information on where to get their plants, click on this link for a listing of garden centers.
It was great to see Dennis. Here we are in one of the gardens – keeping a safe distance apart. We are surrounded by Jasmine ‘Fiona Sunrise,’ Rosa ‘Veilchenblau’ “Blue Rambler Rose,” and Japanese Iris.
Dennis and Bill also live on the property. Here is a view of the house from the back lawn.
Each year, Dennis and Bill change out many of the pots and displays. This year they planted Bromeliads, succulents, black petunias, and Anigozanthos “Kangaroo paws” which are tufted evergreen rhizomatous perennials with vibrant flower colors atop fans of narrowly strap-shaped leaves.
This is the step down to the lawn area made from an old millstone. I love these antique millstones and also have a few at my farm.
Dennis and Bill created this garden on the east side of the pool. It features a dental pattern bluestone planted with sedum and thyme. There are also clipped little leaf linden trees with boxwood, yew, and Hakonechloa, the Japanese forest grass.
In this area, one can see the native Long Island Opuntia blooming yellow.
In these containers – slow-growing Kalanchoe orgyalis ‘Copper Spoons’ with Pilea.
On this long table for 12 on the west dining terrace, Dennis and Bill arranged a variety of topiaries – rosemary, myrtle, and variegated myrtle.
This is the meadow garden. It is filled with Verbascum chaixii Alba, Salvia sclarea var. Turkestanica, Eryngium, Euphorbia Ascot Rainbow, Mexican feather grass, and some lavender.
This is Eryngium ‘Mrs. Wilmott’s Ghost’ with its luminous spiny collar of silvery-white bracts surrounding an egg-shaped flower head and tightly packed with flowers, initially pale green, then changing to steel-blue.
This is the green roof of the “ruin” planted with sedum. The stump on top looks like it goes through the roof to form the chandelier below.
And here is a very hardy kiwi in the “ruin” grown from a cutting I gave to Dennis and Bill from Skylands, my home in Maine.
Kevin and I admired the stone details in the “ruin” floor.
This is Berkheya purpurea ‘Zulu Warrior’ is a deep-rooted and drought-tolerant South African native perennial. When in bloom, these have magnificent three-inch single, dahlia-like, smoky-lavender flowers with dark purple centers.
Here is a group of hardy and beautiful calla lily blooms, Zantedeschia aethiopica ‘White Giant.’ This three-foot-tall plant has large white flowers up to 10-inches long that surround a creamy yellow fingerlike center. These bloom from late spring to mid-summer.
In this area, Acanthus hungaricus, Nesella, Yucca rostrata, and Alchemilla mollis.
I love this view down the large leaf linden allee with a golden leaf elm at the end, a medium-sized deciduous tree that has a vase shape when young, but develops a more rounded canopy as it matures.
Dennis also gave us a quick tour through the greenhouse. Here I am with the Spanish moss used to keep the humidity up for the vanda roots.
This table displays just part of the succulent collection. I love succulents and also have an expansive collection in my greenhouse – one can never have too many interesting succulents.
Dennis and Bill have hundreds of beautiful topiaries. In this section are rows and rows of myrtle topiaries.
These are Santolina standards and one double myrtle in front. Santolina topiaries are aromatic, evergreen, and have silver-gray foliage.
And here is a section of golden Italian cypress trained as standards.
Agave ‘Ivory Curls’ are hard to find succulents. They show off long, wavy leaves that are a deep green with half-inch wide ivory margins.
Carex ‘Toffee Twist’ is an evergreen to semi-evergreen sedge with interesting arching bronzy leaves and fine foliage.
There are also columns of beautiful Helichrysum petiolare. I often use Helichrysum in my large container plants. Commonly called licorice plant, Helichrysum is grown for its silvery, densely-felted foliage and trailing habit. It is a shrubby, woody-based tender perennial that typically grows one-to-two-feet tall but spreads to as much as three to four feet wide on upright to trailing stems densely clad with soft, woolly, oval-rounded, gray-green leaves.
These rustic urns are planted with agave and echeveria.
This is the Peony Garden. Dennis and Bill keep this area as a protected spot for the bees, figs, and of course, the monkey puzzle tree.
What a fun and very informative trip to Landcraft. Please follow Dennis and Bill on Instagram and learn more about their great Foundation.
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