If you're new to gardening it can seem overwhelming. Here are some quick tips and tricks we use at The Inspired Garden to ensure our gardens thrive.
We love ALL flowers, but here is our most favorite, time-tested perennials and annuals categorized by conditions, color and season. If you have deer, we've got you've covered! Keep this list handy for when you head to the nursery!
Learn all about the best perennials and annuals that bloom the more you cut them! Complete with seed sowing instructions, grow your own blooms or purchase mature plants them from your trusted nursery. Use our example bed and detailed graphics to design your cutting garden or let your imagination soar. Either way, you'll be rewarded with fresh-cut flowers all season long!
Learn how to design and install a brand new garden step by step!
Why wait till after your last frost date for blooms and color! Design an early spring garden in a colorful or monochromatic palette. Adding cold-hardy annuals to your garden creates a bridge of color between winter and spring, but they can also collide with summer annuals to create an explosion of color in your garden.
Learn about the tried and true perennials and annuals that we use to make this colorful cottage garden a showstopper!
Who says shade gardens are boring? Learn about shade perennials that bring big color to your shadiest of spots and how to supplement with shade annuals.
Create a garden with color, texture, and movement by planting perennials in drifts and incorporating perennial grasses and evergreen shrubs.
Learn how repeating just a few perennials in a specific color palette can instantly up your curb appeal.
I always say, there are really no rules in gardening. This garden has a little bit of everything while still maintaining incredible curb appeal.
Create a whimsical space where there is always something in bloom!
Learn how to create a warm, cozy feeling garden using annuals in all the colors fall has to offer!
Sticking to a specific color palette for your fall annuals allows you to be drawn into this dramatic fall look.
There is no easier way to create spring drama by installing fall planted, spring blooming bulbs. From tulips and daffodils to our personal favorite, alliums, we show you everything you need to know to get those first spring blooms.
As the founder of The Inspired Garden and Designing Luxurious Gardens and Containers,
Laura has left an influence on the cottage garden landscape design scene, recently winning the 2023 Houzz Best in Design award for her work in the New York area.
Driven by the belief that “flowers feed the soul,” Laura sees gardens as more than simply outdoor spaces – they are living, breathing sanctuaries that feed the soul and awaken the senses. At the heart of Laura's design philosophy lies the concept of "imperfectly perfect.” With a blend of creativity and mindfulness, each of her designs have a sense of magic and wonder that make her gardens both luxurious and inviting. Laura paints with flowers in her signature style, using color, texture, and movement to evoke emotion and create spaces that are as dreamy as they are unique.
Her goal in developing this masterclass is to share her vision that every gardener has the potential to be a master garden designer and develop special places of beauty. Most importantly, she wants you to share in her joy when in the garden and have FUN!