Garden Rooms - Fine Gardening
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DesignCreate Outdoor Rooms That Feel Open, Inviting, and Perfectly Secluded
Finding ways to make garden spaces feel set apart and sheltered is an essential strategy in neighborhoods where homes are close together. On my own small lot, I replaced the…
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DesignA Suburban Cookie-Cutter Landscape Gets a Modern Makeover
From New York City to Chicago to Seattle, you’ll find them—urban cookie-cutter neighborhoods. With the boom of affordable housing in the 1950s postwar era, these practical tract-built homes became an…
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DesignDeBorrah’s Garden Sanctuary
My name is DeBorrah Tibbs. I live in the hot Georgia Peach state in Smyrna. Gardening is my passion and is ever changing. I have gardened most of my life,…
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DesignTour a Landscape of Fascinating Garden Rooms
As editors of a gardening magazine, we’re often asked, “What’s your favorite garden?” For me the answer is easy—Barbara Weirich’s garden in Benton Harbor, Michigan. It’s a landscape of garden…
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CollectionCreate Garden Rooms That Draw You In
When designing a garden, I like to include at least one outdoor room that will tempt my clients to spend more time outside. A strong connection between indoor and outdoor…
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DesignHow to Create a Relaxed Kitchen Garden Retreat
Our kitchen garden has evolved over the years into a homegrown three-room space with a vegetable garden, two dining areas, and a firepit. Set apart from the house, it feels…
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DesignA Cozy Covered Porch Garden Room
Our U-shaped covered porch is the place to be in winter and early spring. The house itself blocks the north wind, and the space’s southern exposure makes it perfect for…
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DesignHow to Design a Secluded Seating Area
To the north, accessed through our dining room door, is the most formal of our garden rooms. A paved patio creates a nice space for entertaining as it gently contains…
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DesignHow to Design a Functional Kitchen-Patio Garden
On the east side of our house, adjacent to the kitchen, a screened porch connects to an open patio with a built-in grill. Having a screened area for bug-free dining…
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DesignAdapting English Elegance
It took about five years and two road trips through England before Anne Campodonico was ready to start her garden. True, the Kentfield, California, mother of three wasn’t in a…
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