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One of the best ways to add a touch of green in a room is to buy a plant. Foliage adds texture, shape and variegated color to a space. Studies indicate that plants can reduce stress and many, such as English ivy, the Boston fern and the peace lily, can help improve air quality. Unfortunately, not all of us are blessed with "green thumbs," and keeping houseplants and indoor trees alive can become a daunting task. A low maintenance way to bring the outdoors in is to decorate with botanical prints, as well as wall coverings and fabrics featuring ferns, palms and other leaf motifs.   

The first few images that appear below were created by Becky Davis of Becky Davis Botanicals whose work is featured in the October - November edition of Garden and Gun. Ms. Davis wears waders and uses a canoe to gather the plants she dries and has framed. She even has encountered alligators while foraging for flowers near her South Carolina home.


Dwarf palmetto
Sabal minor

Netted chain fern
Woodwardia areolata



"Fern prints and a Regency bench lend presence to a small upstairs hall."
Interior design by Markham Roberts.
Photography by Francesco Lagnese.


"[Designer Tom] Scheerer visually linked twin beds in a girl's room with a single headboard, covered in Botanical Fern by Schumacher. 'I thought it was appropriate for a Maine house,' he says. 'It's a paradise of ferns here.' "
Interior design by Tom Scheerer.
Photography by Francesco Lagnese.


"In the master bedroom, a bed from Drexel Heritage's Postobello collection and nightstands by Thomas Pheasant for Baker are 'rich and elegant' against walls painted Benjamin Moore's Mesquite. Settee is covered in Cowtan and Tout's Trailing Leaf Linen."
Interior design by Allison Paladino.
Photography by Eric Piasecki.


"On the loggia, [designer Allison] Paladino used her favorite palm tree fabric, 
Brunschwig and Fils' West Indies Toile, on a pair of wicker armchairs from Whitecraft. Garden stools, the Van Cleve Collection."
Interior design by Allison Paladino.
Photography by Eric Piasecki.

"In this oceanfront Palm Beach house, designer Allison Paladino glazed the sunroom walls bright green to capture the light and painted the woodwork white to calm it down. Ficks Reed's St. Denis Lounge Chairs and ottomans are covered in Woodland Fern and Baker Slipper chairs are covered in Monterey in Citron Green; both fabrics from 
Brunschwig and Fils. Ferncroft needlepoint rug from Jack Walsh Carpets."
Interior design by Allison Paladino.
Photography by Eric Piasecki.


"To complement the green colorings that are prominent around the house, ivy-embroidered sheers filter the light streaming in through the large window in the library."
English Tudor-style home in the Hamptons, New York.
Interior design by Jack Fhillips.
Photography by Robert Brantley.
Written by Krissa Rossbund.


"In the master bath, a freestanding Empire tub by Waterworks is positioned under a skylight. Fern wallpaper by Spring Street Designs creates an instant tropical rain forest."
Beach house in Oyster Bay, New York.
Interior design by Christina Murphy.
Photography by Ngoc Minh Ngo.


"The master bedroom's knockout punch is a dramatically overscale headboard covered in Raoul Textiles' Exoticus Elephant  Leaf."
Beach house in Oyster Bay, New York.
Interior design by Christina Murphy.
Photography by Ngoc Minh Ngo.

"A guest bedroom has a deliberately old-fashioned look. Wallpaper is Adam's Eden by Carleton V. Chenille candlewick bedspreads by Chelsea Textiles."
Interior design by Tom Scheerer.
Photography by Francesco Lagnese.


"Stenciled wall paintings based on 18th-century wallpaper in Sweden's Drottningholm Palace Theater bring fresh air and drama into the foyer of a New York apartment. Designer Timothy Whealon extended the alfresco theme with a green lacquer David Hicks garden seat and lattice-motif Madeline Weinrib Brooke rug in Chocolate."
Interior design by Timothy Whealon.
Photography by Thibault Jeanson.


"The powder room is papered in Cowtan and Tout's Palm Frond in Plum Green."
Interior design by Allison Paladino.
Photography by Eric Piasecki.

" 'The floor is the room's biggest surface area, so I thought, why not a pond? Besides, I was tired of all the geometric floors everyone's been doing,' says [designer Christina] Murphy. Detail of the den floor's stylized lily pads, painted by Christopher Rollinson."
Beach house in Oyster Bay, New York.
Interior design by Christina Murphy.
Photography by Ngoc Minh Hgo.


"Lighthearted brushwork, as seen in the lily-pad 'pond' Christina Murphy designed for the den, marks a welcome change from dead-serious 1980s faux finishes. Phillip Jeffries Extra Fine Arrowroot grasscloth freshens up the walls."
Beach house in Oyster Bay, New York.
Interior design by Christina Murphy.
Photography by Ngoc Minh Ngo.
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