In this 1 hour illustrated talk, I share my ideas about garden rooms – that is, a comforting and somewhat enclosed place, big or small, within your existing larger garden. These past two years have taught us the power of a garden room to provide a place outdoors for respite and calm. A garden room is a welcoming and embracing outdoor place, a place within your existing garden to be with friends and family or alone. It is a living place to tend, a place with chairs or benches and windows – that is, views framed by flowering and evergreen shrubs and perennials, views that look out into other parts of your garden. Flowering shrubs and perennials provide fragrance, color, vitality; perhaps overhanging branches act as a ceiling, stones or brick a floor. Join me as I share pictures of several garden rooms that I, along with my wife Mary, have created over the last 40 years in our own garden or those of our clients across the country.