Ida Severson has an eye for in-between spaces—those narrow borderlands where the visible touch of the human hand gives way to a more unbridled landscape. She calls it the “edge zone,” a realm that’s neither domesticated nor wholly feral, the frayed boundary between cultivation and wilderness. 

“I’m always trying to figure out how to make those transitions feel graceful,” she said.

A gardener and landscape designer who has lived in Inverness for a decade,…