Advantages of a Mossy Roof

The first large garden design & installation job I had, 2+ decades ago, was on Wieuca Road in Buckhead.

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A well-divorced woman & her sparkly happy/smart daughter on 2 acres in a 1940's charmer stuffed with antiques decorated to make Bunny Williams jealous.  

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Nearby, over the fence, a turn-of-the-century A-frame, somehow still surviving, with gobs/gobs of lovely moss on its roof.

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I told her how lucky she was to live near that gorgeous mossy roof.  She agreed.

Weeks into the project she told me I was not the first garden designer called.  The 1st one told her the house next door with the mossy roof should be torn down, an eye-sore.
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What she did not tell Mr. Testosterone-on-wheels-mow-blow-go-commodify-all-I-touch is that she owned that house with a mossy roof & her daughter lived in it, its interior like a Nicky Haslam folly.

Life conspired, above, to finally give me a mossy A-frame roof, diminutively.

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A potting shed at my office/guest cottage.  A short walk from my house.  With a concrete floor it must have been the well.

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Garden & Be Well,     XO Tara

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Pics yesterday.  Miss Wieuca Road met a man at a funeral, married him, moved away.  Her daughter married that man's son.

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Designed another garden on Wieuca Road a few years ago, a new home, and realized it was on the property of the house in my first story.  It had been torn down to build cluster mansions.

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Tara Dillard & Associates Design: farm to city pied-a-terre.

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Construction by Award Winning:

Shaefer Heard Construction, licensed home-builder, renovation - new construction.  Heard's Landscaping a unit of SHC.  3 decades of service.