TARA DILLARD

Give the Button Top pot a go this year. . No need to go fancy a simple holly will suffice.  Perhaps a groundcover conifer, pruned into the...

Prune an arch into it, below. . Pruned arches were a take away from all my historic garden design study tours across Europe for decades. ...

Winter.  Design your garden for winter, and it will be pretty all year. . Terra cotta pot, below, stopped my eyes/heart/head.  Hmm.  Never...

Off the edge of perfect, below, beyond perfect. . Have never understood the predilection for oversized lights at a front door.  Studying h...

Aside from repetition- contrast- color- copied the window boxes are screaming one of my favorite Garden Design rules. . Dinky is Stinky...

In a subdivision, below, without the trees you would see neighbor's houses from the front porch. Whenever you see the gardener, d...

Every garden needs a tall cone shape to draw eyes to the sky. Can't remember which symposium lecturer said this but knew immediat...

Come this way, enter, welcome. Miraculously, from the opposite direction the columns say the same thing. . No matter the size or bu...

Urn on plinth. If Garden Design were parsed like football stats, urn/plinth stats are touchdowns. . I adore the team  formations fo...

In the garden you know exactly what type of arbor is required, below.  Arched, 3' deep, iron, creating an enfilade punctuated with an u...

"Establishing a relationship between unlike objects adds to the interest of a tablescape. An antique French figurine is a three-dime...

The armillary sundial is potent with its curves.  Have used it in many gardens thru the years. This rarely happens, above.  The back...

Contrast shapes. Shrubs, trees & flowers. . Garden & Be Well,    XO Tara . Pic My French Country Home .  What is better t...