A Blooming Floral Garden at a Rhode Island Mansion | Garden Tour & Inspiration

And here we are. We've left the house and the rooms, and now we're in the garden rooms. This is the largest garden and the one that looks most French and honors the architecture. And what I love about this garden in particular is that everything in here is evergreen. In the winter when we're here, we are looking out at green, and it makes such a difference when you're spending time, as we love to do up here in the wintertime. We're standing in what I consider my coziest garden, and it's green and white. When we were designing the house, and then of course I was designing the garden to go with it, I looked back on all the English gardens that I'd seen and loved, and the French ones, and there was one common denominator, and that was a green and white garden, whether it's Sissinghurst or whatever. And it is so easy and such a pleasure to to plant and to cut from this garden. And then this wonderful surprise Christmas gift from my husband the Christmas that we were breaking ground. It's an orangerie, and it actually is also a greenhouse. You can see the the glass roof can can open. One thing I love is that this is such an intimate space because it only seats eight to ten, whereas the larger garden, I can have 75 for a cocktail party, and it still it still feels cozy. And everyone's outdoors, and of course we know how important that was in the last two years. Well, here we are in the cutting garden where you're going to really get a dose of color. Lots of roses. It's that time of year in Newport, and I saved these, and I didn't cut them for in the house because I knew you all would want to see them. This one you'll get a big kick out of the name of this rose. Durandai clematis. Just started putting in our dahlias, which of course in August, September, and October are just glorious and really supply all of the color that we need for the house because a lot of other flowers are not blooming in October. Roses, unfortunately the deer have had their way with them. And then we swing right around more lady's mantel and our little spot of culinary heaven with my favorite kale, and of course strawberries, and little French strawberries. I meant cherry tomatoes. And then just some oddities that just work. You saw this as you're going up the stairs. Nice and big and proud and just beautiful froth of pink right next to the right next to the blue. And more roses, and some phloxes coming up. It's sort of a duke's mixture. It depends on what we lost last year, or what I wasn't happy with, or more importantly what I really wanted to trial and hope that it would work. And I think this year it's probably more roses. Well, I got so carried away with roses I had to move my peonies out to the back courtyard. So they now have two very large beds here, which is a lovely happenstance because they are right across from the 82-foot rose chain that is going by a little bit now because roses, they sort of go down in July and then come back in August and September. But to me this is such a defining statement in what is normally just the back courtyard with the garages. And you can imagine how many times a day I drive in and out of this space and these never cease to assure me that I made the right decision in trying this out and it worked. And the crown princess margaretta is the name of that gorgeous rose. It's a David Austin. Thanks for watching. Be sure to go to homeworthy.com for exclusive content, shopping guides, and so much more.