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 Edit
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The Seasonal Edit is a recurring, design-forward checklist drawn from my own garden—what’s emerging, what can wait, and what deserves attention now. Practical tasks. Clear structure. Timed to the season as it unfolds.
The Seasonal Edit: March/April — Early Spring Garden Checklist
March and April shift the garden into active growth. This is the time to address cleanup, edging, selective pruning, minor lawn repair, and soil preparation before growth accelerates.
The Seasonal Edit: February—Late Winter Garden Checklist
This is not a month for dramatic changes. It’s a month for structure, maintenance, and preparation. What you do now determines how smooth spring will feel.