Featured in Fine Gardening Magazine
I was delighted to be included in Fine Gardening Magazine, which features my families roof deck garden in Boston. At Natalie King Interior Design, we design roof deck and courtyard gardens in the city, and the most fulfilling part of the design process is the enchanted garden feel that they all hold, as feeling like an oasis in an unexpected space. Even if you’re starting out with an herb garden on your windowsill, any plantings bring so much beauty into everyday life.
One quality that our garden designs hold is a European influence with naturalistic elements woven throughout, such delphinium and foxglove, and the influence of the English garden. Dusk is my favorite time of day, and this garden, just before evening, is enchanting. I pick herbs for tea, and flowers for our bedside. It’s a space for yoga, or writing down goals for the week, as it sets the tone for serene creativity.
I hope that you enjoy a glimpse of my English inspired garden in the city, and that it inspires plantings of your own.
I’m an interior designer in Boston, and I come from generations of women who have loved plants and nurtured gardens throughout their lives. This is a small garden on my city roof deck, with a palette inspired by the drama and naturalistic qualities of English gardens. My family treats the garden as an extension of a room in our home, and it brings so much beauty into our lives each season.
In a small space, like a balcony or roof deck, I like to blend formal and informal elements, such as a wrought iron table topped with a humble terracotta pot, spilling over with herbs and flowers. Along a balcony edge, an herbaceous border style of planting softens an urban landscape, with the dramatic presence of delphiniums creating height and structure, dotted with the graceful bell-shaped blooms of foxgloves, wispy lavender, and a climbing rose or two. I like to design for dusk as this is the time of day that the garden is most enjoyed, and so, I select a color palette that looks dramatic and elegant in the early evening, such as rosy purple of the foxglove, regal blue of the delphinium, lavender, soft pink of a climbing rose (creating a spectacular evening fragrance) and shades of green herbs, some that I let go to flower like mint, to enhance the fragrance and the naturalistic quality of it all.
