This Glam Atlanta Garden Channels the Seventies

Interior designer and lifestyle expert Danielle Rollins lives in a gracious Georgian home in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta with an inspiring backyard garden devoted to a navy and white color scheme, a beautifully designed edible garden and a space that continues her interest in design outdoors. Rollins' highly aesthetic potager is conveniently located right outside her kitchen door for quick and easy access to her edibles. She grows a variety of heirloom vegetables and fruit and herbs, but is as focused on design here as in every other aspect of her Atlanta garden. "In a busy world, there is something therapeutic about digging in the dirt," says Rollins. And it's a democratic pursuit too. "People can't decorate on their own, but people can garden. It's so accessible." Rollins will have a second design book published by Rizzoli New York next year.

Refined, manicured and with the distinct imprint of a tastemaker and designer's keen eye, Danielle Rollins' Atlanta backyard is a celebration of symmetry and a harmonious, purposeful color palette. Better still says Rollins, "nothing is ultra, ultra expensive" in her outdoorscape. "I wanted to have the sense of an English country house," she says of the look and feel of her gracious home.

"I always joke that I'm going to force people to have a lifestyle whether they want one or not" says designer Danielle Rollins, of her beautiful approach to life seen in her own Atlanta home's outdoor design scheme. Part of making her garden work: blooms all year round in a consistent color palette and a focused navy and white color scheme that plays out throughout the garden, from the outdoor fabrics to the architectural features to the containers like this whimsical strawberry pot in her edible garden.

Rollins has continued her navy and white theme with an oversized strawberry pot that also provides the perfect focal point in her edible garden. Raised beds are critical for growing edibles says Rollins who uses a special soil mix far better than the region's Georgia clay. Pea gravel gives a crisp look in the potager.