Designing Spaces, Indoors and Out: Introducing The Nosey Gardener

While my roots are firmly planted in home and interior design, a new creative branch has grown in an unexpected direction—and I’m excited to share it with you.

Over the years, my design work has focused on creating thoughtful, beautiful interiors and living spaces that reflect my clients’ personalities and lifestyles. That work continues, and I still love helping people reimagine their homes. But recently, I’ve found myself drawn more and more toward gardens—not just designing them, but discovering them.

This curiosity has blossomed into a side project I call The Nosey Gardener—a YouTube channel where I visit local gardeners (both seasoned and new), explore their outdoor spaces, and share their creativity, stories, and growing wisdom. These aren’t glossy magazine gardens. They’re real, personal, evolving spaces that reflect the people who tend them.

The joy of this project is in the variety: wildflower meadows, veggie plots, cottage gardens, quiet backyard retreats. I’ve met beginner beekeepers, herbalists, rug hookers, orchid lovers, and more. And along the way, I’m learning too—about plants, about passion, and about the many ways people create beauty outside their front doors.

As a designer, it’s been refreshing and inspiring to shift from fabric swatches and floorplans to mulch piles and bloom cycles. I even recently started my first landscape design project, which has added a new dimension to how I think about space, color, and flow.

If you’re curious (or a little nosey yourself), I invite you to follow along. You can subscribe to The Nosey Gardener on YouTube where I share casual garden tours, interviews, and glimpses into the joy of growing things.

Whether it’s inside or out, I’m still helping people shape the spaces they love. This is just one more way I get to do that—with a camera, a notebook, and a lot of dirt under my nails.

Thanks for coming along.

—Julie Fergus