The Vintage Farmhouse Garden: Your Guide to Creating a Vintage-Inspired Outdoor Space

by Rhonda Kaiser

With the insight and inspiration found in The Vintage Farmhouse Garden, you’ll create a gorgeous, vintage-inspired outdoor space, overflowing with style and charm.

Garden and design influencer Rhonda Kaiser (@southernhomeandfarm) partners vintage-inspired design with the farmhouse aesthetic to make your outdoor space as beautiful and welcoming as possible. Whether it’s by creating a stunning tablescape, arranging a welcoming front porch, designing a peaceful outdoor garden oasis, or displaying a collection of seasonal plants and vintage accessories, Rhonda helps you bring all the classic comforts of a farm home into your garden, no matter where you live. 

Inside, you’ll find inspiration on how  

Turn your farmhouse garden vision into realitySelect and plant vibrant fruits, flowers, and shrubs for your farmhouse garden Include vintage finds in your garden designShape a welcoming space, from your front porch to your back gateIncorporate and decorate outbuildings like greenhouses and toolsheds to make them as beautiful as they are usefulAdd pollinator-friendly plants to your gardenCelebrate the seasons by inviting and entertaining others in your space Plus, favorite recipes using fresh flavors from the garden
Discover the joys of curating a collection of vintage accessories and showcasing it as part of a well-designed farmhouse garden, overflowing with a colorful collection of edible and ornamental plants. Welcome to The Vintage Farmhouse Garden.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Plants, Nature

208 pages, Hardcover

Published September 16, 2025

Reviews

[Richard Derus · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rating: 5* of five

The Publisher Says: The Vintage Farmhouse Gardenis the first garden design book to focus on the vintage-inspired farmhouse aesthetic and how to bring it to your outdoor space—no farm required. With the insight and inspiration found in The Vintage Farmhouse Garden, you’ll create a gorgeous, vintage-inspired outdoor space, overflowing with style and charm.

Garden and design influencer Rhonda Kaiser (@southernhomeandfarm) partners vintage-inspired design with the farmhouse aesthetic to make your outdoor space as beautiful and welcoming as possible. Whether it’s by creating a stunning tablescape, arranging a welcoming front porch, designing a peaceful outdoor garden oasis, or displaying a collection of seasonal plants and vintage accessories, Rhonda helps you bring all the classic comforts of a farm home into your garden, no matter where you live.

Inside, you’ll find inspiration on how to:

Turn your farmhouse garden vision into reality
Select and plant vibrant fruits, flowers, and shrubs for your farmhouse garden
Include vintage finds in your garden design
Shape a welcoming space, from your front porch to your back gate
Incorporate and decorate outbuildings like greenhouses and toolsheds to make them as beautiful as they are useful
Add pollinator-friendly plants to your garden
Celebrate the seasons by inviting and entertaining others in your space
Plus, favorite recipes using fresh flavors from the garden

Discover the joys of curating a collection of vintage accessories and showcasing it as part of a well-designed farmhouse garden, overflowing with a colorful collection of edible and ornamental plants. Welcome to The Vintage Farmhouse Garden.

I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA EDELWEISS+. THANK YOU.

My Review: At last! I'm reviewing an aspirational book, like y'all love to ogle and drool over.



Well...yes, but in a curious way, no. This is not just a book of how to make a pretty garden in a certain old-fashioned model. It's a way to create a beautiful outdoor space to use and enjoy; it's also about getting that space to serve a very practical purpose, attracting pollinators and producing good things in the process.

There are many wonderful things about using plants to help increase the pollinators' food supply. You enjoy the flowers; they enjoy the buffet the flowers represent. A beautiful space to enjoy and live in that's also a haven for life, instead of a deadening array of hybridized-to-uselessness botanical tchotchkes, is a very good thing to create.



start with ideas




move to plans and procedures
The book is a beauty. It's got everything I'd say is important to have in this kind of book: aspiration, inspiration, and how to use your perspiration to make it come true. The price is, for this category of gift books, reasonable; tablet viewing worked very well. A tree book is always the most fun to have for us oldsters, but as a gift I don't know many who would kvetch at either form.

Wonderful self-gift, too!

[Mary Lynn]

This is a book from an influencer/blogger and reads like one. Much of the content is on the author’s website. Recommended for super fans of the influencer or for beginning gardeners who live in the southern US. A general introduction to the topic of home gardening with a large budget. Also some beginning ideas for country-style decorating. Some good info for complete novices but nothing new for anyone else. Nicely packaged.

[Kristen Barenthaler · Rating 3 out of 5]

The images were all beautiful, and I immediately wanted to join in on all the fun parties being held here. The guide was at times intense, but overall helpful, and I think it would be a great resource for anyone with enough space and time for such a beautiful garden.

[Lisa Gaede · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not what I thought it would be and that’s ok. Rating is based on use of Photoshopped/ AI images. Not a fan for a book like this.

[Trish · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like that this book has pictures from all seasons.