Above, the family room looks from the deck to the swing. I emphasized the enfilade in the design and used lots of repetition to make the small space 'feel' larger. 
ROSE came to gardening through a love of roses. Her beautiful landscape is merely a setting to show them off. A Southern matriarch in every good sense of the phrase, ROSE was nudged by her landscape into lecturing and opening her garden for tours.
Above & below, two views of the same narrow path. A double axis pair of pics.
Above & below, clematis.
Below, subsidiary focal point. Remember 1 focal point per area.
Walls with 3D are more interesting, below.
This hand, below, charms me each time I look at it. So many metaphors and it follows the 3D landscape design rule for walls. Which metaphors do you see?
The first time I met ROSE was through an invitation to see her garden, with Penny. Of course it was a hot, humid summer day. We began inside ROSE's home. Three steps inside the frondoor I felt like I'd known ROSE always. Delighting upon antiques, art, books, garden views, & stories. ROSE invited us to refreshments at the breakfast room table overlooking the back garden through French doors. Icy cool water, tea, soda, and pound cake left from a recent lecture program. Remembering, especially, the antique silver pitcher of icy water covered in beads of condensation.
My jobsite this morning, above & below. A garden club ripe for Facebook.
Facebook was invented for garden clubs. Notes among members can be seen by all on the Wall. Picture albums can be uploaded. Decades of scrapbooks can be scanned for all to see. Garden club Facebook groups can be kept private.
My garden club lecture today, above photos, was in a private home. Garden clubs are stronger when they meet in private homes. 
On the way home from lecturing was, oh dear, my favorite thrift store. Above & below.
It's good shopping when a man appears & says, I'll carry these to your car. Wicker pet basket, wall sconce for the garden and another plinth for a cloche.
Below, more pictures of Hydrangea Heaven. All of the pictures at my lecture today were from Hydrangea Heaven. 
Penny McHenry is Hydrangea Heaven. Like her frontyard, above?
Penny was bold & open. Before leaving the meeting I knew Penny had a grown daughter that had been murdered. A fact that didn't scare, induce pity, or curiosity in me. An unexpected reaction in Penny's eye's. She adored me for it. The same type of gruesome murder had occurred to my Mother's 1st cousin. I'd grown up knowing horrible things do happen.
Don't haul off leaves, branches, grass clippings, prunings or your Christmas tree. Use Eco-wattles along woodland paths. Blow leaves off to the side and the wind can't blow them back. Above, my eco-wattle prevents neighbor's leaves from blowing into my woodland walk.
I've created 2 types of eco-wattle: formal and informal. Informal eco-wattles have all sorts of garden debris. Formal eco-wattles have 1 type of garden debris and they're pruned neatly.
CORPORATE WOMAN makes cloche gardens, above, to relax. She makes a limited number each year and sells them all. 
CORPORATE WOMAN is eclectic, likes still-life, ivory ironstone, old pitchers, sterling. I adore having clients with sure interior design taste. It dictates landscape shapes for garden rooms, paths, and lawns. With quantities of antique white ironstone it was obvious CORPORATE WOMAN will have oodles of white flowering shrubs, trees, & vines in her landscape. 
Talk turned to food. CORPORATE WOMAN sent me home with Ina Garten. Her favorite landscape picture, above, will be her landscape. Now, her landscape is overexposed. 
Focal points, subsidiary focal points, garden rooms, paths, terracing, trees, axis are already in CORPORATE WOMAN's landscape. And they're well done. Something's missing, the landscape isn't working. 
THEY, yesterday's client, have a new house in an old neighborhood.
Shutters in their breakfast room are usually closed due to the view of the carriage house, below. Solution? I designed a pair of French doors, iron balcony and jasmine 'Madison' to climb and soften.
Their covered porch, below, exposed to the neighbors. Behind the chairs I've designed shutters, sconces, sofa table, pair of lamps, and an ottoman for the chairs. The floor will be stained 2 tones darker than the house trim and a sisal rug will be placed.
The stacked wood wall, below, has got to go. Until then it will be stained the trim color of the house.
A stone wall will be built with a modest column for an urn. Across the street, below, is the type of stone wall their landscape needs.
Changing the subject, below, yesterday's lunch on the well-placed chair. Remember what the chair looked like 4 days ago?
Yes, snow, 4 days ago. Atlanta has crazy weather. It was zone 7, now zone 8.
Bought the footstool, below, with thoughts of paint & recovering. It's been in my garage for years.
I have a footstool fetish. Anyone else? 
At the frontdoor natural light and her books. SHE, "When the Barefoot Contessa sashays into her garden I swoon."
SHE called me to fix what others created.
SHE & my contractors, don't you love the body language? In her hand is my plan, fixing those walls.
String & flags to make the plan come alive. Below, SHE has a potager to sashay into.
Yellow string, above, being measured for the stone to create raised beds for her potager. Paths of small gray granite gravel to match her bluestone terrace.
SHE had boots ready to walk in the mud. SHE recently rescued Sam, below. Can you tell he already has her heart?
Talk went to wine & scotch.
Colors, furnishings, books, lighting. SHE chose them all.
When I made the 2nd appointment, to draw en plein aire, I requested lunch.
Another landscape design secret, talking life. Knowing there will be a defining thought.
Can there possibly be a better description for the type of landscape SHE wants? SHE's not afraid of wit. SHE's never cute.
Beautiful, foolproof, light & shadows, traditional spiced with mid-century modern, flavored with the Barefoot Contessa & the great works of literature. That was the landscape I had to design. 
A plain chair with a pop of fringe tells me more about designing her landscape.
SHE's not afraid of sunlight on her floor & furnishings. Telling me SHE's sensual.
And another landscape design secret, the guest bathroom.
SHE has drama with color, textiles, art from her travels and junking. A directive for any landscape.
