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Homes & Gardens
Tenielle Jordison

Garden Diaries: In Daring to Start Again, Lucy Hunter Opened Her Mind to New Ways of Growing – and Found Her Muse in a Quiet Container Garden

Lucy Hunter's Charleston garden.

Two years ago, Lucy Hunter took a leap of faith. Fuelled by a lifelong career in landscape design and floral art, she followed a creative calling and poured her love of botanicals into hand-painted luxury wallpaper. With it, she inspires homemakers to fill their living space with the whimsy, romance, and nostalgia of the natural world.

Courageously, Lucy made this career change just as she entered her 50s, coinciding with a new marriage that took her overseas. As she prepared to trade her acre-long garden in the wet and cold North Wales of the UK for a sun-soaked container garden on the Kiawah Island of Charleston, South Carolina, Lucy couldn't have imagined how downsizing would calm the anxiety of braving to start again.

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