visit written by tovah martin • photographed by rich pomerantz
CAMPO DE’ FIORI • Unique mossed terra-cotta containers are its specialty,
but there is no containing its exuberant garden
UTTER THE PHRASE “MASTER plan” in Barbara Bockbrader’s prox- imity or suggest that any blueprint was involved when planting the garden at Campo de’ Fiori, and she will fix you with one of her “Hello . . . Is anyone
home?” gazes. Then she’ll turn toward her garden and,
with a broad gesture, let the plantings do the talking.
They are exuberant, resplendent, sensual, and brilliantly
wrought, but clearly not calculated. This is a garden of
pure evolution.
When first installed 15 years ago, this roadside Eden
had drivers slamming on their brakes. Part of Campo de’
Fiori, a retail/wholesale shop where Bockbrader’s husband,
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to showcase their
collaboration of plants
and pots, Barbara
Bockbrader and Robin
Norris (above) hung
antique mesquite
doors (right) to frame
the garden and its
angel’s trumpet from
the porch.
