TARA DILLARD

Within constraints of sacred vs. profane the world takes away so much of our life, why give it more?  Merely targeting industrialized reside...

I was in the shed a couple of months ago, and this was the view, below.  Interesting.  The table/chairs/gravel/trees were designed from anot...

Grandeur of place, below?  Yes, in the mundane ubiquitous manner of magazine writings.  All nice, especially the teaching/learning of color,...

Moving into our ca. 1900 home 2 years ago this month, I remember vividly a moving truck backed into the drive, below, unloading these potted...

Sitting on the front porch swing, below, yesterday before dinner. . Furnishings are functional, still not 'permanent' after moving...

Almost 2 years in our ca. 1900 farmhouse, the pantry still has issues.  Two rotting shelf boards were replaced and the entire pantry painted...

Another Green Man , below.  If you don't know Green Man, take the link, centuries of lore, multiple continents & cultures. . This ...

More a Garden Design course, below, than simply another garden.  What can you label, below, as the Garden Design 'rules' followed?  ...

Working as a professional propagator for 2.5 years, moons ago, left its mark, deep & rich.  More than knowing how to propagate, I miss t...

Last week I completed a Garden Design for a local family.  Their home is new construction on 35 acres of beautiful farm land, open, wooded, ...

When Smith & Hawken had its going-out-of-business sale at its Atlanta store, I had the good fortune to be there shopping with a client. ...

Layers of narrative, below.  Color echoes a home run, for starters.  White to silvers, very nice. . Curiosity too.  Hydrangeas, below, at ...

My construction team laughs at my proclivity for garden designing French doors from windows, adding retractable screen doors too. . From t...

Late to the party, realizing, first from  Wendell Berry , then an English ironstone transferware platter, a century old framed print of a f...

Upon the land, below, do you see garden rooms?  Parlors. dining room, foyer, hallways, mudroom, doorways and more.  And, with the garden roo...

A year before buying our American Farmhouse, ca. 1900, we put an offer on another farm. . Tiny house, small barn, a bit of woodland, ...