The Garden Room Collection

Summary

Dear Alice | Interior Design

Episode: The Garden Room Collection
Date: March 26, 2026
Hosts: Jessica Bennett, Suzanne Hall, with Corey

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Episode Overview

In this episode, the Dear Alice team welcomes spring by unveiling the new Garden Room Collection. They passionately discuss how to create luxurious and layered indoor-outdoor spaces, sharing expert tips to bring the freshness, abundance, and style of estate gardens into any home. The hosts celebrate motifs like terracotta, blue and white, and maximalist garden inspiration—infused with their trademark wit and love of intentional living.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Setting the Mood for Spring

(Start: 00:30)

• Bringing Spring Indoors and Out: Jess introduces the main theme: “We wanted to compile all our best bringing-in-the-spring feels for both interior and exterior...getting that look.” (00:39)
• Luxurious Living, Inside and Out: Sue expresses the joy of combining indoor luxuries with exterior space: “I want to have all my girlfriends over...but then we’re going to end up the garden, you know, with all the twinkly lights and the candles.” (01:56)
• Blurring Boundaries: The hosts emphasize making the lines between indoor and outdoor feel "gooey," rich, and abundant.

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2. Terracotta Lion Head Planters—The Power of Scale and Multiplicity

(03:05 - 09:52)

• Estate Looks with Planters: Jess talks about the new terracotta lion planters and how grouping multiples creates a Ralph Lauren-inspired, estate look.

  “The more generous you go and the more multiples you use, you’re gonna get this estate look even if your house isn’t big.” – Jess (04:29)

• Layering and Scale:

  “When you have an abundance of not only the scale of your pots, but the greenery...you feel like you’re about to enter a Narnia gate or something.” – Sue (04:44)

• Practical Tips:
  • Buy more pots, and in sets, to maximize impact. (05:26)
  • Replace soil each season for annuals to keep plants healthy. (07:19)
  • Use planters both outdoors and indoors for an unexpected, stately effect.

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3. Blue & White Garden Stools and Orchid Pots—Classic Motifs, Modern Uses

(11:25 - 17:29)

• The Blue & White Motif:

  “These are not just your grandma’s décor... They bring a hand-painted element which always looks expensive.” – Jess (11:25)

• Garden Stools for Indoor & Outdoor: Versatile for use indoors as a perch, drinks table, or accent piece, and outdoors for a touch of gloss and pattern.
• Introducing the Guardian Collection:
  • Features a painted mythical chilin (half horse, half dragon), hand-glazed for a vintage-antique feel.
  • Matching orchid pot and garden stool—each a collectible, unique piece.
  • Greek key and gargoyle details evoke “antiquity” and heirloom quality.

    “They are all technically one of one because they’re all hand-painted by an artist.” – Corey (14:46)

• Maximalism & Collecting:

  “More is more, right? I think we’re kind of in that maximalism decorating era.” – Jess (17:18)

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4. Magnolia Stems—Permanent Botanical Drama

(19:02 - 21:50)

• Lifelike and Dramatic:
  • New artificial magnolia stems, 45” tall, with coppery leaf undersides and woody stems for a realistic look.
  • Hosts recommend bending stems for an unruly, secret-garden effect, adding seasonless depth and warmth.

  “You’re not going for a perfectly symmetrical funeral arrangement... I want it kind of crawling and dipping and like doing its own thing. That’s when it gets the most magic.” – Sue (21:04)

• Mixing Real and Artificial:
  • Combining real and faux branches can achieve fullness and a layered, luxurious effect.

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5. The Bubble Dish—Form, Function, and Gifting

(22:02 - 25:34)

• The Iconic Candle Dish:
  • The popular bubble dish now comes in a larger 4” size and new colorways: clear, smoke, and amber.

  “It holds diffusers...people love putting a drink in it and using it as a coaster. They love tossing their jewelry in it on their nightstand.” – Jess (22:17)

  • Hosts demonstrate the new sizes and colors, discussing their personal favorites.
  • “Happy accident” that a glass cloche fits perfectly on the new larger dish. (24:23)

  “It is like a bracelet for your candle.” – Jess & Sue (25:03)

• Multipurpose & Giftable: Great for candles, drinks, jewelry—serves as functional décor and an ideal gift.

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6. Blurring Indoors and Out—The Ultimate Lifestyle Tip

(25:42 - 26:44)

• Bring Inside Out, and Vice Versa:

  “When you do bring your blue and white garden jars out for the party...bring your fancy blankets outside...you’ll get so much credit for it. Start to blur those lines and your spaces are going to look so lux.” – Jess (26:19)

• Signature Advice: Use "interior" elements (lighting, textiles, planters) outside for unexpected luxury; bring sturdy, weather-friendly "exterior" elements indoors for textural depth.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the contagiousness of spring:

  “It’s a mood and it’s contagious...the air is crisp. Where are our plants? Where are all the things that are gonna bring us into this new rebirth?” – Sue (00:53)

• On discovering the power of gardening:

  “Once you start planting things, it's a drug, man. It is a gateway into a garden party.” – Sue (05:51)

• On tension in design:

  “When you have a tree growing inside, there is a tension that becomes a feeling you cannot put your finger on...it feels so nostalgic.” – Sue (09:55)

• On maximalism and collecting:

  “More is more, right?...The hard part is getting the right vessels.” – Jess (17:18, 17:20)

• On interior vs. exterior details:

  “When you start to just live that way, you can’t stop. There’s just such a luxury to it.” – Sue (10:50)

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Important Timestamps

• 00:30 – Introduction to spring and Garden Room Collection
• 03:05 – Terracotta planters & layering for estate looks
• 07:19 – Potting soil tip for annuals
• 11:25 – Blue & white garden stools/orchid pots
• 13:22 – Guardian collection and its details
• 19:02 – Magnolia stems introduction
• 22:02 – Bubble dish, new sizes and uses
• 25:42 – Tips for blurring indoor and outdoor living
• 26:44 – Special listener discount code announced

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Special Listener Discount

Exclusive for Podcast Listeners:
Use code Dear Alice 15 for 15% off the new Garden Room Collection (not listed in show notes; one-time use). (26:45)

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Takeaways

• Layering and multiplicity (of pots, planters, stools) are key to creating rich, estate-inspired spaces.
• Don't shy away from mixing real and faux botanicals, or using decorative, “indoor” items outside.
• Handmade and hand-painted details create visual richness and a sense of heritage.
• The right vessels and accessories elevate both the look and the experience of your home, inside and out.
• Lean into maximalism and intentional layering for a spring refresh with timeless style.

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Transcript

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[Jess]

Hello everyone. Welcome to dear Alice. Today we are welcoming in spring.

[Sue]

Hola.

[Corey]

Finally.

[Sue]

I'm so, so happy about this. I know, I've been waiting all year.

[Jess]

Yes. So we wanted to compile all of our best bringing in the spring feels for both interior and exterior. And just share how we're bringing in this feel, that whole level of excitement and the gooey layers of spring.

[Sue]

It's a mood and it's contagious. Like when as soon as like that sun was staying up. A little bit later we gotta go outside. The air is crisp. Where are our plants? Where are all the things that are gonna bring us into this new rebirth? I guess, right?

[Jess]

Yeah, definitely. So we also have a collection that just launched yesterday and it's called the Garden Room. And it's a small collection of about five pieces. And we're gonna be telling you how these play in perfectly to getting that look. And I wanna say the look to me, if you're trying to conjure this up in, in your mind, we're going to be showing images on the screen. If you're one of those that's just tuning in and listening and driving, you're going to be picturing in your mind those Ralph Lauren type interiors. The blue and whites, the over scaled, the very generous and the collection, I think interiors that have multiple, multiple of the same thing look so rich. And so these are some of the things that we want to make available to help people get that look. And now that it's spring, we can finally kind of crack the windows. We can get these ideas going for porch, we can bring these ideas inside. So with that, let's get into it.

[Sue]

Garden party. Okay. To kind of set the mood. Now is the year. We're cracking our windows open. The breeze is coming through. We're lighting the candles a little bit. Even though like it's light outside, I just want to light candles. Is that weird? I think it's the twinkly light fantasy. You know, when you think of, I want to have garden parties. I want to have all my girlfriends over. I want us to grab our food inside, but then we're going to end up the garden, you know, with all the twinkly lights and the candles. And I just think that this is the time where we want to bring the outside in and we want to bring the inside out.

[Jess]

Yes.

[Sue]

As far as we want to enjoy our luxuries outside. And I think there's no more beautiful exterior spaces than when they have interior details and luxuries and moments.

[Corey]

So it makes you feel like you moved in outside. Last year was the first year I bought, you know, a bunch of planters, and, yeah, kind of had that whole experience. I'm excited to do it again because I learned a lot. Finally felt like I moved into my house. I was like, this feels home now.

[Sue]

Moved into your garden?

[Corey]

Yes. That's what happened. Yeah.

[Sue]

The pieces that we not only launch, but the lifestyle that we want to teach you guys about today, that's, I think, this gooey layer textures that we're gonna fill outside.

[Jess]

Yeah, Agreed. I love it. Okay, well, first up, we have an amazing set of terracotta pots. These are our terracotta lion planters. They conjure up these, I think, collected. And I don't know if those of you that are tuning in, let's get them to the first slide. Here you can see how the multiple layers of terracotta pots climbing this set of steps is just so estate. Like, it's also simple because it's terracotta. There's something kind of earthen and very European about this aesthetic. I love this look. And I think also because orange and green sit sort of opposite on the color wheel, they just looks so fantastic together almost.

[Sue]

They want to be with each other. Y.

[Jess]

Yes. And I I. So this set of four pots you're going to get, they graduate in size. I really do believe that if I were getting these for my porch, I would get two sets of planters, for sure. Right. And then I would go down the steps with some of the smaller ones. I would go next to my front door with the two largest ones. I'd graduate to one smaller size. And then I start to use those smaller ones throughout the area next to my little chair or my love seat. And you. You can see the look is really abundant. And that's how you're going to get that Ralph Lauren look is by using the multiples, the multiplicity. It always looks sad to me when I see a Front door with a small little pot that looks like you could put it in your windowsill and grow basil in it.

[Sue]

Do you know what I mean? Yeah. It's not meant to be next to your grand door.

[Jess]

Exactly. So the way we're going to get the look is scale. I think scale is, like one of the number one lessons that we could talk about when we're getting our porches ready. The more generous you go and the multiple more multiples you use, you're gonna get this estate look, even if your house isn't big.

[Sue]

Just Bennett, I was at your porch just the other day, and it's still not all the spring stuff is in bloom quite yet. It's starting to come up. We're starting to see some daffodils. We're starting to see some of those things happen. But what I loved about your porch that you've had there for a few years is you have your big planters, but then you have these evergreen kind of topiaries, things that you're kind of crawling through a little bit. Like, they're robust, they're big. But there's something so grand about when you have an abundance of not only the scale of your pots, but the greenery happening that you kind of are just crawling through, like a storybook, you know, to get to the door, and you're just like, what is this magical place that I'm coming to? You know? And, like, you knock on the door with your fox door knocker, and I'm, like, surrounded by green, and I feel like I'm about to enter a Narnia gate or something. Like, it's magic.

[Jess]

So I'm just saying scale, picture on the screen of that. But you'll be able to see. Like, I use two sets of our white ceramic planters that we planted last year. They're ribbed. This is another great trick. The one thing that we all have to take away from this is to buy more pots.

[Sue]

Yeah.

[Jess]

Buy the whole set and get two sets. You'll be amazed at what it can do and the amount of life that can come onto that concrete porch.

[Sue]

I will say, once you start planting things, it's a drug, man. It is a gateway into a garden party. That's what that is. When you start to see things come to life and when you feel what that feels like to have greenery all around you, you just want to keep going. And the more layers you can have of that, you know, the repetitions of the pots, the repetition of blooms, herbs, all those things just layered on top of each other. There's nothing more magical than that.

[Corey]

It gets you outside, too, every evening. Last year we were out deadheading and, you know. Yeah. Trimming things back. Just trying to. Trying to learn, like the plant. Daddy's told us.

[Sue]

Almost like a midlife thing. Like, we just. We have to make sure all the children are well in the garden.

[Corey]

Exactly.

[Jess]

You know how people sometimes say, touch gr. I think this is that.

[Sue]

Yeah, it's grounding.

[Jess]

It is. It's really grounding. And I think after a long day to go out there and give them a little water, deadhead them and talk to them, it slows you down. You get into a different mode. You're not in front of a screen and you're really able to just touch these living things and talk to them, check in on them. I have loved having. I think I have 11 pots on my tent, Tiny front porch. It's been so fun. It's a little oasis. I'm just so excited that we're in that time of year, that we can bring all these things back to life.

[Sue]

Like Saturdays at the nursery, like, stop it there.

[Jess]

It's like going clubbing. It is.

[Sue]

I'm just. I'll see you later, guys. I'm going to the nursery. It's magic. It's so magic.

[Jess]

Corey, you were going to give a quick tip that you learned recently about pots.

[Corey]

Yes, Last year when I was potting them, I bought, obviously, a bunch of soil. And talking to the guy at the nursery, he said, you're going to want to empty all of your soil when you replant these. Because I did annuals, so I have to replant them every year in a lot of my pots. So you need to change out the soil, because what grew last year depleted the nutrients in that soil. So he's like, you're going to want brand new stuff. That's what's going to make it full grow. Yeah, because we want it to be. Yeah, we want it to come out and be as full as possible as soon as possible.

[Sue]

Yeah.

[Corey]

So in order to get that, replenish the soil.

[Sue]

Okay. That's such a good tip.

[Jess]

So I have evergreens living in my two largest ones. So I'm not going to empty out my dirt and replant those. I'm just going to fertilize and give nutrients to what's already there. So depending on what you guys decide to plant, I thought Corey's pro tip was a really good one. The other point I wanted to make about the terracotta pots or Any pots. Our black ceramic are so beautiful. And the white ceramic, R2. We only are making these three sets of pot. I think they work for any, any lifestyle. And any look between the three sets that we offer. The terracotta being the brand newest ones, just barely hit the website yesterday.

[Corey]

I'm gonna go the terracotta with them in tandem.

[Jess]

Yeah, yeah, totally.

[Sue]

And you kind of know who you are. Yeah, you do.

[Jess]

Depending on your style and who you are. The one thing that we did that's really very good about this terracotta pot is we did a lion head bas relief where it's like relief out of the terracotta and it makes it more regal. Sometimes terracotta can feel very casual and. And we have a propensity here at Alice Lane to sort of make things look just, I think more estate like. And like they've been here for a billion, million years. And these are just so good looking. I cannot wait for you to get your hands on them. And it could even be that these are, these are a backdoor pot and maybe the front door have, you know, the black glaze pots or whatnot. Or maybe these are back by the pool. I also wanted to say you can bring these indoor. We love an indoor tree. And so we have some, I think. Do we have an example or two where we show terracotta pots indoors? So don't be afraid to get the lion head planters and use them indoors. The smallest one, again, could be in the kitchen window. You could grow basil in it or rosemary or any type of herbs. These could be on consoles. These could be in your entryway on a center hall pedestal. Yeah. Wherever you have light. I love this look indoors too. And like sue said, spring is all about blurring the line between indoor and outdoor and getting this feeling. And I think this is unexpected.

[Sue]

It is.

[Jess]

And so I, I love that you can bring it inside too.

[Sue]

We always talk about that tension when you have something that's modern next to something traditional, that the tension is so good. The same goes within an interior, having exterior pieces there. When you have a tree growing inside, there is a tension that becomes a feeling. You cannot put your finger on it. When people come in, they're just like, this is amazing. But it's because you brought something unexpected. But that feels so familiar and feel so, I think, nostalgic. We've all danced in a garden. We've all felt that magic. But to bring that into your home, bar none, the best thing. But same tension happens when you bring exterior or interior things outside. When you have like the beautiful candle dish with the pretty candles and the cloches, all the layers that fill heirloom and you have that outside. You're like, gosh, these guys really know how to live. This is so much better than my Costco set, you know, so. But when you start to just like live that way, you can't stop. There's just such a luxury to it.

[Jess]

It's a lifestyle.

[Sue]

It is a lifesty down. I'm so glad that you guys came out with the terracotta one with the lion head because I swear, for like years, as long as we've been doing this, we've been collecting images. That really stately pot that feels earthen, that you're like, what century was this born, you know, to put in the corner of that living room? And so we've always searched for this, but now we're making it. I'm just so glad that we don't only have the glaze pots, which are so pretty. So if you're a little bit more glossy, that's a really, really fun trick to play because sometimes things get kind of dry, you know, indoor and outdoor. But we do have the terracotta. Terracotta pot. And they feel so beautiful together.

[Jess]

Yeah, Yeah, I love that. Super stunning. Another motif that we love, love, love indoor and outdoor are the blue and whites. So these are not just your grandma's decor. We are using these beautiful garden stools. We love, love, love this motif. Traditionally they come from the Chinese and then of course Europe picked this up and then it made its way over to America. I think of obviously the Ralph La warriors when I think of blue and whites and some of our old favorite decorators like Bunny Williams and Mark Sites. Yeah, the blue and whites, they just, they're so quintessentially traditional in the interior. And what I love about them is they bring pattern, they bring glossiness, and they bring a hand painted element which always looks expensive. You kind of get this little hit of a pocket square moment or a little hit of what wallpaper would do to your room. And what's so great about them is you can just pick them up. You can put your finger in the hole and pick them up and bring it over to your guest and set their drink down on it. They're completely portable. They give a look. I love these inside by a favorite chair. I love them outside by your favorite lounger. And it was like that thing that you were saying, Suze, is it's, you know, if you have a set of outdoor furniture, it doesn't always give the opulence that interior furniture does. And so when you bring interior elements in, like a garden stool, which is made for outdoors, too, it can withstand any weather. You get this glossy effect outside with your dry woven furniture, and it makes it feel so expensive and intentional. And having multiples of garden stools in between lounges, a couple in a set with your outdoor living area, even one on the porch so somebody could pull up an extra seat. Right. For you to have tea on or whatnot. It's a total lifestyle move.

[Sue]

Yeah. Like you said, you can't have enough of them.

[Jess]

More of a.

[Sue]

Is a better. Yeah, Right. You don't just want one garden stool. You want several that go along with additional planters. And you're like, am I a first dibs gallery? Maybe?

[Jess]

Yeah. Yeah. This new one that we just introduced yesterday is called the Guardian. And we'll put an image up on the screen of. Of our guardian garden stool. But I wanted to tell you guys a little bit about it. We also have a matching orchid pot that goes with it, so I'm going to pull it up on the table. So this is a mythical creature, and it's painted here on our orchid pot, and it's called a chilin, and it's. It's half horse dragon. Isn't that fun?

[Corey]

Sounds mythical.

[Jess]

So you can kind of see on here, we've got the scales and the hoofs, and I think, is it the head of a.

[Corey]

Head of a dragon?

[Jess]

Head of a dragon. And kind of this. This body of a horse. Body of a horse with the hooves. And there's two different chilin on this. And so we name this the Guardian because it's going to watch over you and your household. And then on the orchid pot, you can see the gargoyles on both ends, those little relief heads. And then we've got a Greek key around the top. So the Guardian comes in both the orchid pot as well as the garden stool. And I just think it's so, so handsome. I think multiples of these. So great. Multiples of the garden stool.

[Sue]

Yeah, I was going to say I search out for these types of things, like this, the little. Yeah, some of them just have the holes. But if you have, like, the gargoyles that are hand painted, you're just like, again, you don't know the age of it. It just feels like it's an antique that's been passed down generations and generations because there is such an antiquity with that relief. It's so beautiful.

[Corey]

And like Jess mentioned, same Motif between the orchid pot and the garden stool. But one thing that I love about this and makes it super rad to me is that they are tech. All of them are all technically one of one because they're all hand painted by an artist. And so they're going to have, you know, a little bit different variation and kind of that artist's interpretation of it. So yeah, it definitely feels like a collectible and vintage, you know, like heirloom quality.

[Jess]

Yeah, I love this Greek key at the top as well.

[Sue]

Consider that a love note from Alice because we've all like, as long as we've done this, put a Greek key on it. It adds like just that structure and organization to the organic, to the storytelling. And it feels so, so good repetition here. The little hash marks down here, the scales. Like, I love this piece so much.

[Jess]

The glazing is something that we've worked really hard with our hand painters on this because when feels more aged and antique like this, they just look more expensive in the interior. When they're too bright white, they look like they're from home goods or something. And these are the real deal. They're not stamped. They're all hand painted. They're all hand glazed. Take this to your greenhouse and put multiple orchids in it. For our lifestyle shoot, I asked them to put three different orchids, white orchids in it and two in the other because we love an odd number. So I wanted a total of five kind of playing together in the lifestyle shoot, which we'll show here on the screen. But anyway, really handsome, the blue and white. So you guys get it. I'm just so happy that we finally have the ability to offer these indoors. And your outdoors are going to look so good. You could even put this on your porch, grow something green in it. You could fill this with paper whites for Easter and Armorellas for Christmas. This is going to be the gift that keeps on giving.

[Sue]

Herbs could just be spilling too. That is so beautiful. Didn't. Weren't you just telling us. I think it was you talking to your friend David Phoenix and he lives on Palm beach and he was just saying paint that scene. Because I remember there was like multiple orchids. I'm like, I need to live like that. That sounds so great.

[Jess]

Yeah, yeah. So I was actually talking to Alex Marin from Switzer Marin, and he had just. He's doing a new art line with David and so they went to his. To his home in Palm beach and he said, you should see it. He's got this whole wall or this Whole scene. I don't know if it's a sideboard, I don't know if it's a chest, but it's. The entire thing is just full of orchids. And he must have a green thumb just to keep these things going year round. But I was like a wall, like a collection of multiple, multiple orchids in different pots. Is that just the most rich visual? I wish I had B roll for that.

[Sue]

Lived rent free in my mind. Like I've painted it.

[Jess]

Yeah.

[Sue]

It's feels so beautiful.

[Jess]

More is more, right?

[Sue]

Yep.

[Jess]

I think we're kind of in that, that maximalism decorating era. And so these, these things are getting the right vessels, I think is the hard part.

[Sue]

Yeah.

[Jess]

You know, and then you can figure out how to keep the orchid alive. But you're going to look so handsome with this, Jess.

[Sue]

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[Jess]

Yes.

[Sue]

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[Jess]

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[Sue]

Okay. I'm so excited.

[Corey]

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[Jess]

Next up we have the magnolia stems.

[Sue]

Okay.

[Jess]

That are brand new in the collection. And if you can see over my shoulder here and over by Sue's, this. These are the new magnolia stems. These are so tall. I want to say they're, gosh, like 45 inches. Yeah.

[Corey]

In full. Yeah.

[Jess]

You've got the underside of the leaf that's really copper, like, really handsome. And the stem is so woody. These really are like you cut a branch off of a tree. These aren't like a little tiny stem. And because they're so big, they have three huge heads of leaves just on one. So you don't. It doesn't require you to buy 20 branches to get this look. This is probably like seven anyway, because they're so tall, you can start to bend these so that they're not so symmetrical. And it gives you that real lifelike feeling and that it's Narnia and it's just growing big and green and lush and it adds a real depth to any interior.

[Sue]

I like the warmth, too. I think we've had a few clients that we've worked with for over 10 plus years, and again, I go back to their house. Laurels can kind of come in and out or be in a different mood, but the magnolias never leave their tabletops. When they have a great magnolia, it does not go anywhere. So I'm like, this is one of those things. It's kind of taken the foraging between this and our greenwood. Yeah, it's our greenwood branch. Anyway, you get that forage look, which, you know, that we love and feels the most believable, especially in these months where the trees, you know, are just starting to, like, get their groove on. This is such a beautiful way to make a really. And I love the idea of ending it. Just making it feel.

[Jess]

Yeah.

[Sue]

All you. I think we've all been to greenhouses or been to that friend with the green thumb who's their fiddle tree. Right. Has just, like, exploded and done stuff that looks like it's an el decor.

[Jess]

Yeah.

[Sue]

You can do that kind of thing with being able to bend these a little bit.

[Jess]

So the more branch you have, the more freedom you have to get this sort of wilder, unruly, secret garden, more

[Sue]

asymmetrical, like nature is.

[Jess]

And that's the key. Yeah, yeah. You're not going for a perfectly symmetrical funeral arrangement, if you will.

[Sue]

I want to be kind of crawling and dipping and, like, doing its own thing. And that's when it gets the most magic.

[Jess]

Yeah, totally.

[Sue]

Yep.

[Jess]

Yeah. So this is the new magnolia stem. So excited that these are here and just in time for spring, summer, whatever. There's going to be an occasion where you might want floral somewhere. But this is just in that entry hall or the living room or wherever, wherever you have a spot for it. But I think it's just that thing that, like you said, it's seasonless.

[Sue]

We both have live trees and live plants and things, but we also still have some artificial happening, like amidst it. And they all just kind of like when you get a good rug, it just starts to adapt. Same thing with plants. If you have a good stem, it adapts with your real live trees. And I think the look is really just. It's luxurious and ample. It's really, really great.

[Jess]

So stately, so pretty. Next up, we have another introduction, which is probably our most popular item right now. It was so good we had to make it in another size.

[Sue]

It broke the Internet, you guys.

[Jess]

Yeah. So this is our original bubble dish. You guys all have one, I'm sure by now. And this has been really fantastic. It fits a great, like three or three and a half inch candle base. I'm going to put. Corey, will you put a candle in that?

[Corey]

Yes.

[Jess]

Also really great. It holds diffusers because they're just a little bit smaller than candles. People love putting a drink in it and using it as a coaster. They love throwing tossing their jewelry in it on their nightstand. And so this is the original bubble dish. And. And then we decided to make it in a couple other colorways. We introduced it in our new classics launch. Yeah. So now it comes in clear smoke and amber. And then we said, let's come out with a larger version. So I'm going to show you the difference in sizes. So this is the original 3 inch bottom. This is the new one with the 4 inch bottom. So if you have a little bit larger candle or even just a standard 4 inch candle, that's going to fit in this larger one. And these just landed. We have them here in stock and they just launched yesterday.

[Sue]

So is anyone more frustrated when you have a candle? You go to put it in a candle dish and it doesn't fit. That's the worst.

[Jess]

Yeah.

[Sue]

So orange to the rest.

[Jess]

Go ahead and put your Troodon candle in there and we can tell them happy accident. That happened, too.

[Sue]

I know. Speaking of, I've been smelling this Troodon candle for the last.

[Jess]

Oh, wait one second. I want to really quickly show them the colors.

[Sue]

Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh. Sorry.

[Jess]

Okay, so this is the clear. Get the Al standing straight. This is the clear this is the smoke, and Corey's holding the amber. So the difference between smoke and amber, I'd say smoke is a little bit more like charcoalier. And then the amber has some really beautiful warmth in it. Almost walnutty.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Jess]

Right. So those are the three colorways that they come in and they're brand new, so I can't even tell you which one's going to be the best seller yet. So you guys, you decide.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Sue]

What's your favorite?

[Jess]

But what was really fun. I really like Corey's. I like the walnutty amber. Yeah.

[Sue]

Although the census says the clear just go.

[Jess]

I mean, it's like actually with the clear small ones. What's the best seller of the smalls? Or maybe we don't know yet because we only offered this. We only offered this. We just barely.

[Corey]

That one's winning because just of momentum.

[Jess]

Yeah. But yeah, the original there is something

[Sue]

just like so buttery. Oh, it's just like that one got basted in butter to get that walnut one. It's really good.

[Jess]

Susan's a foodie, you guys. What I was gonna say, though, happy accident. When these 4 inch ones came in, we're like, oh, I wonder if the cloche will fit.

[Sue]

And it does. Isn't that freaking gloves so good.

[Jess]

Yeah. So this is just gonna be, like we said, your traditional, you know, four inch candle. If you're curious, like which one to get. Depending on what your favorite candle is, the. The bigger one might be safer. But if you're going to be using this for a diffuser or if you just throw a measuring tape on the bottom, you'll know which size to get. These are such great gifts. My sister just texted me and she's like, hey, can I get seven of those for my girlfriends for Easter? And I was like, yeah, absolutely. It's like the gift that keeps on giving. It's. Yeah. Such a great price.

[Sue]

A bracelet for your candle.

[Jess]

It is like a bracelet for your candle. And one of our team members that works on the product with us, we just barely saw these actually this week for the first time because they just landed. The big ones are even more sparkly because there's more bubbles than glass. And it really is just like such a bracelet.

[Sue]

Yeah.

[Jess]

I love it. A jewelry piece. And just adds that. That bit of decor.

[Sue]

Right.

[Jess]

Who doesn't love a bobble?

[Sue]

I know, Exactly.

[Jess]

So the new candle dish is here and we just had to hurry and tell you and show you if you guys tuned in the difference in sizes. So you guys know you're gonna want

[Sue]

that in your garden party, inside and outside.

[Jess]

Yeah.

[Sue]

That's going to migrate. You're probably going to get a couple of them, a few of them, so you can try all the colors out.

[Jess]

Yeah. Lucky.

[Sue]

Yeah.

[Jess]

And I think like, as a takeaway, like we were saying, bringing the inside stuff outside just gives it that luxe feel. I remember when I was looking for an exterior, an exterior lantern for my porch, I just finally was like, forget it. I'm going to hang an interior fixture outside. And I did. And it's been 11 years and it still looks perfect. It's a brass the Morris pendant from Suzanne Castler's collection. It has frosted glass and it just looks so much more extraordinary because it's an inside thing outside. And so when you do bring your blue and white garden jars out for the party and you bring your indoor scents out to the party and you

[Sue]

know, you start to bring your fancy blankets. Stop it. When you go to like cuddle. Cuz it's brisk. Yes. Getting cooler at night, right?

[Jess]

Yeah. Put those little cash fancy, fancy minks.

[Sue]

Gosh.

[Jess]

Bring those outside. Bring those inside things outside and you'll get so much credit for it. But yeah, start to blur those lines between inside and out and your spaces are going to look so lux.

[Sue]

Yep.

[Jess]

So rich. Can't wait for you, you guys to get your hands on this stuff. It's so brilliant.

[Sue]

Yep.

[Jess]

Yeah.

[Sue]

Okay.

[Jess]

I love it too. Really quick note. We never put new stuff on sale, but I was able to get a code for just the listeners. It's Dear Alice 15. If you guys use it on this new stuff, that code will work. We're not going to type this in the show notes. We don't want anybody to have this code to be able to search it or use it. It's a one time use code. You guys have it. So go get yourself something really nice from the garden room collection. Again, that's dear Alice 15. And if you guys have any episode ideas or any questions, please send those to dear Alice alicelanehome.com and we'd love it if you'd leave us a review and share this with a friend that will help the podcast grow. Thanks so much for tuning in, guys. We'll catch you next time.

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[Jess]

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