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11 Apr 2022
Garden Design

Our Garden Design Inspiration & Mood Board

I could honestly spend hours upon hours gathering inspiration in the form of Pinterest perusing, book reading, magazine clipping – you name it. I LOVE the gathering process so much. Our garden design inspiration revealed to me how much I really love this balance of structure and wildness. I like there to be big pieces that create some formality alongside some wild and free elements.

You can see below in the mood board that there are a few elements we were really influenced by. The boxwood hedges, the fountain, the arch trellis – those things are happening in our space for sure. Some of the other items, like espalier apple trees, are total dreams that we will try to incorporate, but may not be able to.

How to Organize Your Inspiration

The whole process for gathering inspiration should be free and easy. Then, you need to start editing. I typically create a huge Pinterest board and then refine things into a new board called “finals” or something like that. I have a great Vegetable Garden Design board on Pinterest right now that is full of ideas. Once you get an edited idea, then you can see patterns and find your style easier.

Take my fun Garden Design Style quiz here if you want to dig in that way!

Overall, the inspiration-gathering process is really going to help inform you of choices and make the building of your project much easier.

How to Unpack What Inspires You

So, once you have all these pictures, how do we even unpack what about it inspires us? Other than the overall vibe, you need to unpack each picture to decide on what about it really thrills you.

With the below picture, there is an overall gorgeous feeling, but let’s dive into it.

My advice: go bottom-up. Check out the pathways, then the beds, and what material they’re made out of. Next, examine the trellises, fences, and any structures, buildings, or arches. Then you can dig into the actual plants they have and how those are arranged. You’ll begin to see even more detail than before, as well as more patterns. Follow the patterns to reveal what you really want.

As evidenced here, what I typically find is that the materials can be humble, with a beautiful finish when the garden begins to be planted and really lived in.

kitchen garden
Source: houseandgarden.co.uk

Our Overall Vibe

The overall vibe for our space is very much informed by a french potager meets cottage garden aesthetic. There will be pots layered in after the fact, pea gravel for walkways, and colorful borders (the cottage vibe). We love a layered look that has character and interest, so when you’re building something from scratch, you have to add that in.

We will try to mix stone and metal with the wood and create a lot of natural texture that gives the garden a lot of dimension. We don’t want a one-note space that is just flat and uniform. The key is to really solidify some of the structures and statements, then go from there.

Our Statement Pieces

As mentioned, below are the statement pieces that we will have. Adding the plants in will make it all come to life, but these big pieces will be necessary first.

  • Boxwood hedges
  • Arch trellis entryway
  • Pots at the entryway with dwarf citrus
  • Stone fountains
  • Wooden raised beds (18″ tall)
  • Wooden and metal obelisk trellises

Kitchen gardens around the world all look different. We of course could just plop down some fresh soil and grow in-ground if we wanted to, but love having something more formal to really invite guests and the children into. We want the space to have some polish, but also do want some major function out of it. Also a part of the raised bed choice.

Form and function at it’s finest!

For more raised bed inspo,see our roundup HERE.

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So, a staple in my closet are: clogs! They’re so nostalgic, charming, and versatile. 
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So, a staple in my closet are: clogs! They’re so nostalgic, charming, and versatile. 
Pair with flowy summer dress, or jeans, overalls, you name it. 

My fave fave fave are @sandgrensclogs so we’ve teamed up to get you a code AND they’re having a huge sale. Up to 70% off!! Run, don’t walk. 

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Garden chic 🌸🤌🏼 is my vibe. My style defined. Swipe to see my inspo on this…

*ahem* Kate Middleton meets Ralph Lauren vintage meets Dutchess of Devonshire and Lady Birley … OBVS.

So, a staple in my closet are: clogs! They’re so nostalgic, charming, and versatile.
Pair with flowy summer dress, or jeans, overalls, you name it.

My fave fave fave are @sandgrensclogs so we’ve teamed up to get you a code AND they’re having a huge sale. Up to 70% off!! Run, don’t walk.

BAILEYVANTASSEL is code and link in stories and highlights for you.

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If I would have listened to the nudges and trusted them more, I would have. In fact, the story of how my husband and I fell in love is ALL about a second chance he took on me a year after I “wanted to be friends” 🤦🏻‍♀️. But he was the one all along. There’s a psychic and roller skates and magic moments woven throughout the story - a tale for another day. 

Fast forward a few years and I almost never started my first garden if my husband hadn’t challenged me to finally act on my supposed dream to have a big garden. 

Luckily, I started documenting it from the get go! But I didn’t take the leap into making it my business somehow until about two years later. 

While it’s fun (er, maybe depressing) to play the what if game, I look back and feel so proud of when I finally took the leap into the unknown, investing in my heart. I knew I wanted to keep gardening and sharing, but had no clue what I was doing. 

Now, being able to help others take that leap - take what they love and make it what they *do* - it’s the ultimate full circle. 

My one-day (maybe even just one time!) masterclass in making your passion your business via Instagram, is OPEN. 

I am so excited to meet whomever is meant to be in this even with me. It’s a live zoom, and I’ll be POURING my heart and all my knowledge into it. Years of my own investment, experience, and insight, coming straight to you. 

My goal has always been: do what I love and spend time with whom I love. Work on my own schedule, make a full-time income, be present for my family. And Some days I can’t believe I’ve actually done it!! 

If this sounds like your own heart, I hope you’ll join me!!! Link in bio 🌸✨. 

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With everything that I’ve loved deeply in life, I wish I started sooner. Wish I found my husband sooner, had babies younger, got into gardening and started making it my life a decade earlier.

If I would have listened to the nudges and trusted them more, I would have. In fact, the story of how my husband and I fell in love is ALL about a second chance he took on me a year after I “wanted to be friends” 🤦🏻‍♀️. But he was the one all along. There’s a psychic and roller skates and magic moments woven throughout the story – a tale for another day.

Fast forward a few years and I almost never started my first garden if my husband hadn’t challenged me to finally act on my supposed dream to have a big garden.

Luckily, I started documenting it from the get go! But I didn’t take the leap into making it my business somehow until about two years later.

While it’s fun (er, maybe depressing) to play the what if game, I look back and feel so proud of when I finally took the leap into the unknown, investing in my heart. I knew I wanted to keep gardening and sharing, but had no clue what I was doing.

Now, being able to help others take that leap – take what they love and make it what they *do* – it’s the ultimate full circle.

My one-day (maybe even just one time!) masterclass in making your passion your business via Instagram, is OPEN.

I am so excited to meet whomever is meant to be in this even with me. It’s a live zoom, and I’ll be POURING my heart and all my knowledge into it. Years of my own investment, experience, and insight, coming straight to you.

My goal has always been: do what I love and spend time with whom I love. Work on my own schedule, make a full-time income, be present for my family. And Some days I can’t believe I’ve actually done it!!

If this sounds like your own heart, I hope you’ll join me!!! Link in bio 🌸✨.

#masterclass #instagramcreators #slowliving #liveauthentic #mompreneur

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Perhaps they’ll look back and giggle together about how mom made them sing a song to an Elderberry bush as a gift of reciprocity when we had nothing else. 

Or maybe they’ll long for the sweet days with sticky hands from pulling needles off rosemary stems, and returning worms to their dirt homes. 

Maybe they’ll resent how much they “had to garden” as teenagers, rediscovering it a decade later, much like my own journey. 

No matter the destination, the moments when we’re out adventuring together talking about wild fennel and cactus flowers, treasuring the perfect-heighted walking stick and a Turkey vulture feather - those are the moments when my soul sighs with contentment and I know that I have done enough. 

#raisethemwild #wildandfreechildren #motherhoodrising #foraging
Perhaps they’ll look back and giggle together about how mom made them sing a song to an Elderberry bush as a gift of reciprocity when we had nothing else. 

Or maybe they’ll long for the sweet days with sticky hands from pulling needles off rosemary stems, and returning worms to their dirt homes. 

Maybe they’ll resent how much they “had to garden” as teenagers, rediscovering it a decade later, much like my own journey. 

No matter the destination, the moments when we’re out adventuring together talking about wild fennel and cactus flowers, treasuring the perfect-heighted walking stick and a Turkey vulture feather - those are the moments when my soul sighs with contentment and I know that I have done enough. 

#raisethemwild #wildandfreechildren #motherhoodrising #foraging
Perhaps they’ll look back and giggle together about how mom made them sing a song to an Elderberry bush as a gift of reciprocity when we had nothing else. 

Or maybe they’ll long for the sweet days with sticky hands from pulling needles off rosemary stems, and returning worms to their dirt homes. 

Maybe they’ll resent how much they “had to garden” as teenagers, rediscovering it a decade later, much like my own journey. 

No matter the destination, the moments when we’re out adventuring together talking about wild fennel and cactus flowers, treasuring the perfect-heighted walking stick and a Turkey vulture feather - those are the moments when my soul sighs with contentment and I know that I have done enough. 

#raisethemwild #wildandfreechildren #motherhoodrising #foraging
Perhaps they’ll look back and giggle together about how mom made them sing a song to an Elderberry bush as a gift of reciprocity when we had nothing else. 

Or maybe they’ll long for the sweet days with sticky hands from pulling needles off rosemary stems, and returning worms to their dirt homes. 

Maybe they’ll resent how much they “had to garden” as teenagers, rediscovering it a decade later, much like my own journey. 

No matter the destination, the moments when we’re out adventuring together talking about wild fennel and cactus flowers, treasuring the perfect-heighted walking stick and a Turkey vulture feather - those are the moments when my soul sighs with contentment and I know that I have done enough. 

#raisethemwild #wildandfreechildren #motherhoodrising #foraging
Perhaps they’ll look back and giggle together about how mom made them sing a song to an Elderberry bush as a gift of reciprocity when we had nothing else. 

Or maybe they’ll long for the sweet days with sticky hands from pulling needles off rosemary stems, and returning worms to their dirt homes. 

Maybe they’ll resent how much they “had to garden” as teenagers, rediscovering it a decade later, much like my own journey. 

No matter the destination, the moments when we’re out adventuring together talking about wild fennel and cactus flowers, treasuring the perfect-heighted walking stick and a Turkey vulture feather - those are the moments when my soul sighs with contentment and I know that I have done enough. 

#raisethemwild #wildandfreechildren #motherhoodrising #foraging
Perhaps they’ll look back and giggle together about how mom made them sing a song to an Elderberry bush as a gift of reciprocity when we had nothing else. 

Or maybe they’ll long for the sweet days with sticky hands from pulling needles off rosemary stems, and returning worms to their dirt homes. 

Maybe they’ll resent how much they “had to garden” as teenagers, rediscovering it a decade later, much like my own journey. 

No matter the destination, the moments when we’re out adventuring together talking about wild fennel and cactus flowers, treasuring the perfect-heighted walking stick and a Turkey vulture feather - those are the moments when my soul sighs with contentment and I know that I have done enough. 

#raisethemwild #wildandfreechildren #motherhoodrising #foraging
Perhaps they’ll look back and giggle together about how mom made them sing a song to an Elderberry bush as a gift of reciprocity when we had nothing else. 

Or maybe they’ll long for the sweet days with sticky hands from pulling needles off rosemary stems, and returning worms to their dirt homes. 

Maybe they’ll resent how much they “had to garden” as teenagers, rediscovering it a decade later, much like my own journey. 

No matter the destination, the moments when we’re out adventuring together talking about wild fennel and cactus flowers, treasuring the perfect-heighted walking stick and a Turkey vulture feather - those are the moments when my soul sighs with contentment and I know that I have done enough. 

#raisethemwild #wildandfreechildren #motherhoodrising #foraging
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Perhaps they’ll look back and giggle together about how mom made them sing a song to an Elderberry bush as a gift of reciprocity when we had nothing else.

Or maybe they’ll long for the sweet days with sticky hands from pulling needles off rosemary stems, and returning worms to their dirt homes.

Maybe they’ll resent how much they “had to garden” as teenagers, rediscovering it a decade later, much like my own journey.

No matter the destination, the moments when we’re out adventuring together talking about wild fennel and cactus flowers, treasuring the perfect-heighted walking stick and a Turkey vulture feather – those are the moments when my soul sighs with contentment and I know that I have done enough.

#raisethemwild #wildandfreechildren #motherhoodrising #foraging

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Making final moves💧Got the last piece for my bed irrigation today! 

Why water with soaker hoses, you ask? I’ll tell you. 

They’re flexible, moveable, controllable, and hide well.

I love hand watering too, but this is much more of a long term and steady choice. 

Linked in stories and highlights AND on the blog for you. But bookmark this puppy so you don’t forget. These are Linex brand. 

I’ve used them before (hence these photos) and with clients! Love love. 

#irrigation #soakerhose #gardendesign #kitchengarden #gardenersofinstagram
Making final moves💧Got the last piece for my bed irrigation today! 

Why water with soaker hoses, you ask? I’ll tell you. 

They’re flexible, moveable, controllable, and hide well.

I love hand watering too, but this is much more of a long term and steady choice. 

Linked in stories and highlights AND on the blog for you. But bookmark this puppy so you don’t forget. These are Linex brand. 

I’ve used them before (hence these photos) and with clients! Love love. 

#irrigation #soakerhose #gardendesign #kitchengarden #gardenersofinstagram
Making final moves💧Got the last piece for my bed irrigation today! 

Why water with soaker hoses, you ask? I’ll tell you. 

They’re flexible, moveable, controllable, and hide well.

I love hand watering too, but this is much more of a long term and steady choice. 

Linked in stories and highlights AND on the blog for you. But bookmark this puppy so you don’t forget. These are Linex brand. 

I’ve used them before (hence these photos) and with clients! Love love. 

#irrigation #soakerhose #gardendesign #kitchengarden #gardenersofinstagram
Making final moves💧Got the last piece for my bed irrigation today! 

Why water with soaker hoses, you ask? I’ll tell you. 

They’re flexible, moveable, controllable, and hide well.

I love hand watering too, but this is much more of a long term and steady choice. 

Linked in stories and highlights AND on the blog for you. But bookmark this puppy so you don’t forget. These are Linex brand. 

I’ve used them before (hence these photos) and with clients! Love love. 

#irrigation #soakerhose #gardendesign #kitchengarden #gardenersofinstagram
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Making final moves💧Got the last piece for my bed irrigation today!

Why water with soaker hoses, you ask? I’ll tell you.

They’re flexible, moveable, controllable, and hide well.

I love hand watering too, but this is much more of a long term and steady choice.

Linked in stories and highlights AND on the blog for you. But bookmark this puppy so you don’t forget. These are Linex brand.

I’ve used them before (hence these photos) and with clients! Love love.

#irrigation #soakerhose #gardendesign #kitchengarden #gardenersofinstagram

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