TARA DILLARD

"I think in concepts, not words." A. Einstein.  . Until reading, above, a few days ago, I had no words to describe my thought pr...

Gardens begin inside your home.  Looking out. . Your home is the garden's backdrop. . The Agrarian & Pastoral ideal.  Idyll.  Fo...

France was an education in Garden Design with Trees while studying historic gardens there.  French Garden Design, with bushes/perennials rem...

Which major Landscape Design rule do you see, below? . Which subsidiary Landscape Design rules do you see, below? . If you had this sing...

Garden Designs are Interior Designs.  I cannot do a Garden Design without seeing a home's interiors.  Table & chest & mantle sur...

Furniture in the garden has always intrigued me, since becoming aware of furniture in the garden as 'a thing' watching an episode of...

What is the first rule of Garden Design?  Excellent question, knowing rules are not for me.  Excepting, when rules make me, MORE me.  Same t...

Nothing in your backyard?  Want a pretty backyard?  Begin backwards.  Install function first, do not consider overall form, nor a single pla...

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

Get 'the' Garden Design memo, below?  Aside from 'the' memo, what are the bullet points for the memo in macro, not merely mi...

How few have 'seen' this, below, seeing a pile of sticks/branches in a compost pile? . From this starting point, below, take it, o...

Most notably, in the garden, below, is the hedge.  Yet not the only notable element.  At the front end of reading this post, make your list ...

Carl Jung overlooked a common archetype.  How?  This particular archetype appears before parties on the home front.  I get the call.  At lea...

Heads-up, every garden, below, uses the same 'Garden Design'.  Centuries old yet new in each incarnation. . If you've found yo...