I have a thing for really great planters. I don't know what it is, but I just love a beautiful pair flanking a door or along a garden wall. So here's a round up of some fabulous ones:
Cantelope planter by Charlotte Moss for Seibert-Rice and my favorite, the Chippendale planters from Charleston Gardens.

Ventura cachepots by Pottery Barn and the Stuart planter by Charleston Gardens.


Antique galvanized planter by Smith & Hawken and a more modern take from CB2.

To be green while cultivating your green thumb use these recycled tire rubber tubs as planters, from DWR. While your there, pick up the modern an cool Bullet planter, available in a few different colors!

For flanking a front door I always love a classic pair of Grecian Urns or tall modern narrow planters.

For an Asian inspired garden, try bright planters from Target and perhaps this pagoda wall planter from Horchow.

I'm loving this Moroccan planter set from Simply Planters, for a windowsill garden get a set of these vintage looking numbered pots from Anthropologie.
For drool worthy luxury- check out the selection from Authentic Provence.... *le sigh*


(and and P.S., I am freaking my freak over this umbrella they also have...)



On a smaller scale, I'd love to see this bowl planter filled with succulents on an outdoor dining table or perhaps a grouping of these poppy planters from the NYBT.

I feel inspired to go plant something!

I hope everyone had a nice long weekend- I think all summer weekends should be three days, no? Anyways, last week my friend Amanda and I went on the Beacon Hill Garden Tour. As you know from my previous post, I adore Beacon Hill. It is Boston's most aesthetically gifted neighborhood and it feels so very European and full of charm. Seeing the private gardens behind the venerable brick town homes was pretty amazing- just knowing the value of the real estate of those small patios and plots of grass made every little plant all the more impressive. However, besides a few knockout ones, I was a bit deflated by it. Perhaps it's because I've spent so much time in my mom's garden that anything less falls short or perhaps it was the distraction of the garden with ASTROTURF and all the waxy chintz balloon shades I could see through the windows? Anyways, here are few snapshots, it was a lovely way to spend an afternoon!

This garden was insane and by far the most impressive- entering through their archway into the stone walled breakfast area and then up the stairs to a HUGE yard and garden (let me remind you, this is smack in the middle of the city- the yard is on the second level-i.e. on top of a building)