TARA DILLARD

Charming before/after, below.  Don't know any details about the home, purchased to live in, bought to flip, perhaps a new owner knows th...

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

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 ...

A new garden book arrived to doorstep yesterday.  Quick fanning of pages, pure gold found. . "...a quincunx of trees on the lawn....&...

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...

Towards the front end of your Garden Design, choose a color trinity for your exterior.  House, furniture, gates, light fixtures, pots, hardw...

Most requested by clients/students?  "I don't want to spend a lot of money, it must have little maintenance."  This is what I ...

Ok, I get the house statement, below.  Well done. . Landscape?  As my dear friend Susanne Hudson will say, dinky-is-stinky. . Two approa...

The list is long, all the things not taught about designing gardens.  How do you know, what you don't know?  You don't.  What to do?...

Habitually Chic , Heather Clawson, shares a garden every few weeks, sometimes longer, many new & wildly wonderful to me.  Recently, belo...

The door is open, below, welcoming you into the foyer. Pic, above, here . . Perhaps a foyer is what your garden is missing? . Garden ...