A coastal cottage garden, edited with a city girl’s eye
Gardening, design, and seasonal living — learned in real time, with intention, simplicity and honesty
I grew up in coastal New England and spent years in the fashion closets of New York working in visual storytelling, learning how proportion, restraint, and seasonal rhythm shape everything we love.
Parsley & Petal is where that sensibility meets the garden.
The Seasonal Garden Edit
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The Seasonal Garden Edit is a monthly checklist drawn from my own garden — what’s emerging, what can wait, and what deserves attention right now. Practical tasks and a thoughtful edit of what truly matters each season.
The Only Garden Tools I Actually Reach For
A good garden — like a good wardrobe — is built around a few pieces that do their job beautifully. The rest is noise.
What I’m Learning by Not Overplanting
When we first moved into our house, every bare patch of soil looked like a problem to solve. I was a city girl who knew nothing about growing grass, much less a garden.