A scene from an heirloom country garden

 It helps if you have authentic 19^th century outbuildings as in this garden, but this kind of ambience could be created in many locales.  Garden designer and floral arranger Michelle Goodman enhanced an old well house with a planting of Annabelle hydrangeas.  On a lower level, she created an herb garden composed of geometric shapes, all set in gravel.  Other features: a custom iron arch, a clipped bay tree, a miniature germander hedge outlining the square herb beds, tuteurs and trellises made from wood, hops climbing a wall of a period smokehouse.