by Carrie Orteza | Jul 23, 2024 | Garden Designers, Gardens, Plants, Popular Gardening Topics
Photo by Stacy BassShades of purple and pink work together seamlessly with the lush greenery. Connect 1. Use silver-leaved plants as discrete connectors between garden spaces. Extend 2. Extend a space visually by placing blue in the back of the border. “My favorite...
by Jason Burnett | Jul 22, 2024 | Art & Style, Artists
At first glance, Salvador Dalí’s Lilium Musicum (Lily) appears to be a delicate drawing of a classic white lily, its flowers floating from a winding stem as if from an eighteenth-century book on botanicals. Upon closer inspection, however, we see that the surrealist...
by Carrie Orteza | Jun 21, 2024 | Gardens
Photo courtesy of RizzoliA rimless, dark-bottom pool offers a nearly perfect reflection of the architecture and hydrangeas above. Chairs are poised to take in sweeping views of a lawn, cornfields, and the coastal pond beyond. Health A healthy landscape considers all...
by Carrie Orteza | Jun 21, 2024 | Beautiful Gardens, Gardens, Women In The Garden
Photo by David DashiellEnglish, French, and Italian influences are evidenced in The Mount, Wharton’s home in Lenox, Massachusetts. Born Edith Newbold Jones in 1862, Edith Wharton spent her childhood traveling around the world. When her family moved to Europe,...
by Carrie Orteza | Jun 21, 2024 | Beautiful Gardens, Gardens
Photo by Clive NicholsAn elegantly simple swimming pool tucked into an envelope of green offers summer refreshment. Photo by Clive NicholsIndia Hicks, attired in one of the romantic, printed cotton dresses she often wears in the country. A walk through The Grove’s...
by Carrie Orteza | Jun 21, 2024 | Gardens
Photo by Stacy BassGerard tends his garden daily—pruning, weeding, and deadheading. For years, Gerard Pampalone dreamed of gardening Beanacre Farm. Even before he and his wife, Arlene Carpenter, finally became the proud owners of the property in 1995, Gerard was...
by Carrie Orteza | Jun 18, 2024 | Art & Style
Bathed in Blue Inspired by the azure beauty of sparkling pools, we share our true-blue picks. Photo by David Hillegas Round Dolphin Planter ($430) from Chelsea House • Forest Green Wine Glass ($185/set of 6) by Estelle Colored Glass • Bora Drinking Glass ($185) by...
by Carrie Orteza | Jun 18, 2024 | Garden Designers, Gardens
Photo courtesy of RizzoliWhen working with any site, Ed Hollander and his team first evaluate the existing landscape to determine flora and views worth saving and enhancing. This New England property boasted rows of ancient black cherry trees surrounded by a meadow of...
by Carrie Orteza | Jun 18, 2024 | Fresh Features, Shops & Shopping, Travel
Photo by Leslee Mitchell | Styling by Margaret Zainey RouxIn her Nashville shop, Keith Meacham creates a tablescape inspired by the “Charlotte” tablecloth she designed in collaboration with Lisa Fine Textiles. The whole thing sort of started by accident,”...
by Jason Burnett | Jun 17, 2024 | Flower Arrangements, How-To, Video
For our July/August 2024 issue, Sybil Sylvester, FLOWER contributing editor and owner of Wildflower Designs, created five, lush, English garden-inspired arrangements including a classical bust. In this video, she shares tips for making a bust arrangement that appears...
by Carrie Orteza | Jun 17, 2024 | Flower Arrangements, Flowers, Fresh Features, How-To
Photo by David HillegasThe moment Sybil Sylvester spotted a vintage Baccarat chandelier hung low over a glass console at Hiltz-Lauber (a rug, furniture, and lighting shop in her hometown of Birmingham), she envisioned flowers interacting with the crystal pendants....
by Jason Burnett | Jun 14, 2024 | Architects, Garden Designers, Gardens, Outdoor Living
Photo by Anice Hoachlander The new pool and pool house slips gracefully into the landscape and reflects the exterior of the original house, including perfectly matched stucco, red tile roof, and arched detailing. Sometimes real estate fantasies do come true as...
