Category: Garden Design

Exploring garden design, the views of garden designers, garden design plans and the products that make gardens special are some of my favorite subjects to write about. It gets even more fun when I take a peek into the creative genius of movie directors focusing on gardens or avid gardeners of the past.

One of my favorite movies about garden design, or in this case landscape architecture, is Heaven Shall Be Here, a fun piece directed by the late Alan Rickman, who I loved as an actor. Another landscape architect I’ve enjoyed researching and writing about was Beatrix Farrand, the niece of Edith Wharton. The passion she shared for garden design with her aunt was remarkable. She was so devoted to it that she dared to become the first certified female landscape architect in the US, not an easy feat given it was truly a man’s world then.

I also have a habit of taking ideas and running with them, one such escapade finding me taking beautiful antique items for the garden that I saw at the Decorative Fair in London and building an entire design narrative around them for a real-life Cinderella, Catherine Deneuve. I chose objects I thought she would adore for outfitting her garden in the South of France!