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.
A Home Run with Color: Designing a Cohesive Garden Palette
I used to be drawn to everything at the nurseries. Whatever caught my eye came home with me. But a garden begins to feel cohesive when you choose a few colors and let them repeat.
My Essential Garden Tool Kit
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: A Lesson in Garden Structure
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.