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

Spring Awakening Arrangement, Ariella Chezar how-to
Spring Awakening Arrangement

Ariella Chezar’s book, Seasonal Flower Arranging, provides valuable tips and how-to’s for creating her lush, artistic style, such as this composition she calls “spring awakening”

DIY flower crown
Easy, DIY Flower Crown

Flower magazine’s Jessica Cohen shows how to make a simple, fresh, flower crown with step-by-step instructions. This easy design only takes about 10 minutes to create and is ideal for parties, festivals, or weddings

Travel

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Asheville with Libby Endry

The creative shop owner of The Gardener’s Cottage in Asheville, North Carolina, shares her favorite places to stay, eat, drink, sightsee, and shop in the city she calls home

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Tasty Sweet Potato Vines

More than beautiful foliage to cascade over your garden pots, sweet potato vines are hot in farm-to-table dining. Chef Derek Herre talks to Flower about adding them to the fall-winter menu at Rhubarb in Asheville, North Carolina

Alison Bruhn and Delia Folk stand outside Bergdorf Goodman in New York with a shopping bag.
The Style That Binds Us: New York Little Black Book

Want to feel like an insider on your next visit to New York? Well, we have the scoop on where to stay, shop, eat, and visit from the classic to the trendy carefully curated by the dynamic, always on the go mother/daughter duo—Alison Bruhn and Delia Folk of The Style That Binds Us

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