Home & Garden

Garden Glow-Ups

Make your green space a heaven on earth with these bucolic beauties

Photo: JULIA LYNN


• Birdbath

Welcome warblers and wrens to cool off in this stately cast-stone bath from the Williamsburg collection by Campania, seen here with a vintage bird statue—every piece nods to Virginia antiques and the timeless lines of eighteenth-century gardens ($400; garden-fountains.com).


Wall Planter

Installing the three sizes of these pots by Campo de Fiori en masse on a wall and filling them with plants that pop creates a visual treat, and the aged mossy patina adds instant history. Plus their flat backs—which come with a hole for a masonry screw, nail, or hook—keep them from wobbling when watered ($24–$44; campodefiori.com).

• Wagon

Woven resin fibers make this utterly charming Belgian-made garden cart from Weston Table weatherproof, while also echoing willow garden baskets of yore. And it’s not dainty: It can support heavy pots with ease ($1,895; westontable.com).


Orbs

Architectural elements like these sculptural orbs, designed by Atlanta’s Suzanne Kasler for Ballard Designs, ensure that a garden always looks dramatic. These get cast by hand using volcanic ash, sand, stone, and resin, so no two are identical ($129–$230; ballarddesigns.com).

Photo: JULIA LYNN


• Watering Can

Just as gardeners delight in learning about new seeds to sow and bulbs to plant, they get a similar rush when they discover fresh takes on everyday items, like this faceted watering can by the Swedish designers at Garden Glory. It’s just the right size for topping off delicate plants that need a light hand ($89; gardenglory.com).


Tools

Blacksmith Corry Blanc forged carbon steel in his Waynesboro, Virginia, foundry for this Blanc Creatives garden rake, trowel, and weeder, all sturdy enough to turn the soil for generations to come ($185 each, $495 for set; blanccreatives.com).

Photo: JULIA LYNN


From top:

• Bench

Traditional latticework makes this teak garden bench from Alabama’s Summer Classics look as if it fell out of a photo of Bunny Mellon’s stunning Virginia garden ($1,540; summerclassics.com).

Pillows

Soft fabric in weatherproof natural linen by Schumacher brightens these indoor-outdoor pillows ($309 each; fschumacher.com).

• Hat

The founders of Gardenheir, the online garden emporium where you can find this handmade toquilla straw hat, hail from Florida, but after years spent in the fashion and art worlds in New York City, they packed it all up for the Catskills, where they now curate their collections ($178; gardenheir.com).

Work Gloves

Independence, Virginia’s Fox Creek Leather crafts elkskin gloves that are both thick against thorns and supple enough to cradle cherry tomatoes without crushing any ($90; foxcreekleather.com).

Basket

Salvaged white oak from a Virginia farm found new life in Blanc Creatives’ handsome garden basket, with an open mouth begging to haul cut blooms ($375; blanccreatives.com).


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CJ Lotz Diego is Garden & Gun’s senior editor. A staffer since 2013, she wrote G&G’s bestselling Bless Your Heart trivia game, edits the Due South travel section, and covers gardens, books, and art. Originally from Eureka, Missouri, she graduated from Indiana University and now lives in Charleston, South Carolina, where she tends a downtown pocket garden with her florist husband, Max.

Haskell Harris is the founding style director at Garden & Gun. She joined the title in 2008 and covers all things design-focused for the magazine. The House Romantic: Curating Memorable Interiors for a Meaningful Life is her first book. Follow @haskellharris on Instagram.