INVITING PORCHES AND VERANDAS

FRESH FEATURES

A green room with a portrait hanging over a fireplace, a stuffed bookshelf, and a velvet couch.
Celebrating New Orleans’ Bohemian Soul
In an excerpt from their new book, BOHEMIAN SOUL: THE VANISHING INTERIORS OF NEW ORLEANS, writer Valorie Hart and Photographer Sara Essex Bradley draw back the curtains to celebrate the houses and owners who embody the essence of New Orleans' style and free-spirited character.
A table is set with a floral tablecloth, flowers, and orange and pink napkins.
A Winning Mahjong Party
Nashville natives and renowned hostesses Mary Hollis Huddleston and Katie Jacobs put their expertise to work as they plan an afternoon gathering centered around a popular pastime.
Kat Mulford and Lee Lesley stand in front of samples of Modern Matter Hardware.
Material Moment
Modern Matter co-founder Katherine Mulford takes us on a tour of the luxury hardware company’s early beginnings, the successes along the way, and its road map for the future.

INTERIOR DESIGN

Woman sets a table inside a barn with chickens and a cow.
Home on the Ranch
With the purchase of the Texas farmland she shares with her husband, designer Denise McGaha returns to her roots and finds the inspiration for her newest collection.
Photo the screened porch at McCurdy Plantation. Designer James Farmer chose a gray floor and light blue ceiling, and furnished it with two rocking chairs and a bed swing covered in blue pillows.
Inviting Porches and Verandas
Late spring and early summer days draw us outside to entertain or just relax with a drink and a copy of FLOWER magazine. We’ve gathered more than two dozen idyllic porches and verandas featured in our pages to inspire your outdoor space refresh—or maybe just your daydreams.

Gardens

Flower How-To’s

A simple tulip arrangement by floral designer Mimi Brown in a tole cachepot
Tulip Cachepot

Designer Mimi Brown shares an easy-to-assemble tulip arrangement to dress up your home in an excerpt from Living Floral by Margot Shaw

painting and floral design by Marcy Cook
Marcy Cook’s Artistic Floral Style
The former floral designer pours her love of flowers into the art she now creates. She invited FLOWER into her Dallas home to show us both of her gifts by making arrangements inspired by her own art and one of her favorite spring blooms—irises

Travel

The Cottage Garden with a circular stone seat and bust, Highgrove Garden, June 2011.
Experience the Cotswolds

The Cotswolds district in West Central England is blessed with an embarrassment of riches, including perfectly preserved stone villages that literally stop you in your tracks.

Wild Flower Meadow with spring wild flowers and Highgrove House, May 2009
The Majesty of Highgrove Gardens

Tucked into the picturesque Cotswolds countryside, the home of Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, sits surrounded by gardens, wispy meadows, marching allées, and ancient walls with fragrant climbing roses

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