When we asked readers recently what you wanted to see more of on Gardenista, about a zillion of you responded to our survey (thanks, by the way) to say you'd love to visit more of your neighbors' gardens—the tantalizing ones you get to glimpse through a hedge or when a gate swings open. They're your favorites, you said. Guess what? Ours too.
The best gardens are personal. They couldn't belong to anyone on earth except the people who created them. Do you have a garden like that? Or maybe you know someone who does. If so, we'd like to feature that garden on Gardenista. Here's how:
- Email photos or a link to your photos to us at edit(at)remodelista.com by November 24 (a week from Saturday).
- If we choose your garden, we will feature it in an upcoming Garden Visit post.
For inspiration, here are a few favorite private gardens we've featured recently:
Above: London antiques dealer Will Fisher of Jamb opened his garden to us recently; see An Antiques Collector's Garden in London. Photograph by Christine Hanway.
Above: Samantha Greenwood, the special events chef at Alice Waters' Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, grows a high and wild tangle of 80 varieties of roses in her garden. "I don't want little rose bushes in a line," she says. "I love being lost in them." For more, see "A Riot in Berkeley: Roses Gone Wild." Photograph by Mimi Giboin.
Above: London architect and shopkeeper Ben Pentreath's Garden in Dorset, in Full Bloom.
Above: In the heart of London, Christine created a micro rain forest of hardy, shade resistant plants in her backyard. For more, see "The Reluctant Gardener: Christine's Oasis in London." Photograph by Christine Hanway.
Above: On the outskirts of San Francisco's Sunset District surfer neighborhood, restaurant owners Dave Muller and Lana Porcello grow menu items in a greenhouse they built out of wood scraps and discarded windows. For more, see "Steal This Look: A Potting Shed Made of Scraps." Photograph by Michelle Slatalla.
Above: When architect Nicolas Soulier and ceramicist Cécile Daladier started their entryway garden, they were looking for the rain, the wind, and the sky in between Paris' seven story buildings. They filled the garden with zinc mirror ponds to reflect the sunlight shining though their building's light well. For more, see A Ceramacist and an Architect in Paris.