Patio & outdoor

Let me be straight about this page before anything else: these are paper prints, and paper does not belong in weather. Direct sun fades pigment, overnight damp buckles a sheet, and a few cycles of both will cost you the piece. What this page is really for is the covered, shaded, in-between space — a sunroom, a three-season porch, a glazed conservatory wall, a loggia with a roof over it.

So can I hang these outside?

Under a solid roof, out of direct sun and back from the rain line, yes — and behind glass in a frame is better again, because the glazing takes the moisture before the paper does. On an exposed fence or an uncovered wall, no, and I would rather say so than sell you something that curls by August. The same caution applies to humid rooms indoors: the bathroom and powder room page works through the damp-air question in more detail and the advice carries straight over.

Why are the prints on this page all succulents and terrariums?

Because drought plants are the one botanical subject that reads correctly in a bright, hot, hard-lit room. A soft English bouquet looks wrong on a sunroom wall at two in the afternoon — the light is too strong for it and the subject too delicate. Cactus, succulent rosettes and glass terrariums already belong to that kind of light, so the painting and the room agree with each other. There are five of them here: one terrarium study on its own, three pairs and one set of three, about CA$14 to CA$47 for the single, CA$26 to CA$84 for a pair and CA$38 to CA$124 for the trio.

What size suits a sunroom wall?

Bigger than you would choose indoors. A glazed room has far more competing light and usually a view through it, so a small print simply disappears; the 12x18 in (30.5 x 45.7 cm) and 16x20 in (40.6 x 50.8 cm) are the two sizes I would start from, and a pair hung close together reads as one object from across the room. All seven sizes are available, unframed, on matte paper. For more of the same green language indoors, green wall art and botanical prints are the two pages to look at next.