FLOWER Magazine July/August 2026

ON THE COVER: A nod to red, white, and blue at The Barns, Ali Mahon's charming antiques shop in Riverside Connecticut. Ali brings the indoors out to created a storybook setting for an enchanting evening in the garden. Photo by Jane Beiles

ROOTED IN VIRGINIA - Behind a hidden approach in Charlottesville, Virginia, designers Lisa Sokol and Sarah Johnson transform a Georgian estate into a richly layered, deeply personal retreat.

GARDENING GOURMET - In the plot behind his Gorze, France home, renowned garden designer Pascal Garbe mixes beauty and innovation, exotic and native plants, and most significantly, the culinary with the horticultural.

LONE STAR STYLE - In Dallas, designer CeCe Barfield Thompson coaxes a family home into a more luminous version of itself.

A SENSE OF PLACE - A new house informed by vernacular cottages on Alabama's Eastern Shore embraces bayfront living and Southern style for a family returning home. 

Plus cool finds for summer, a Q&A with Olivia Bienvenu Massie Brown, and more!