TARA DILLARD

Garden Design in a single photo, below. . Pic, above, here . . Don't be fooled by the beautiful home, stone terrace, vintage table/...

At the front end of designing your garden there's a common halting point.  Language.  No words to describe the form, function, style, fl...

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

Born a Garden Whisperer, holes were left in that primordial gift.  Holes created before birth, when thousands of years of Gardening transiti...

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

Happy charmer, below.  Makes me want to go inside.  . See a change, an easy change too, making the roof higher and house taller? . Once ...

Color, as a magical force, below. . Fence, below, extends architecture of the house. . Don't know any of their constraints, below.  ...

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...

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

For 20 years of my career, Southern Living magazine was 'the' resource for clients.  Most had pages dog-eared or torn out ready to ...

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

Seems so simple, below. Pic, above, here . More simple, below.   Pic, above, here . . Austerity of great depth. . Richness in ch...

Past client called for their new home.  This is a copy of the Garden Design the sellers gave them at closing, below.  Sellers had done a gut...

Thirty years I lived in this architecture, below.  Looming driveway/garage, wall with large windows, finally, a teeny tiny sliver, and voila...

Vanishing threshold, below, garden light pouring inside. Pic, above, here . Our ca. 1900 house, below, is getting plenty of attention, ...

'There you go again', said during a much earlier debate.  Architecture, below, with a big fat garage, teensy front door, and a room ...

Garden rooms, you must create garden rooms.  That's the mantra, across centuries of Garden Design, but what does it mean, below, in the ...

Attracted to the marvelous sliding doors, below, the wood stoop and small planters had me send this fabulous home & garden to my Pintere...

Commercial, mostly interiors shop, March , below, better at garden design than most garden centers. . Not a lot here, excepting there is a...

Dinner tonight in honor of a friend's beloved grandmother.  She would have been 99.  Grandma's chocolate pie will be the star, an...