Pristine and perfect? No, thank you. Tracie Fish has long championed a more relaxed, authentic approach, filling her family's cottage-style garden in Washington with nostalgic plants, rusted flea ...

When designing a garden, it helps to begin with the structures. In Fish's garden, she installed a picket fence, a few metal arches, and a chicken coop built from the salvaged timbers of an old church ...

Add a little magic to your yard this season.

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