TARA DILLARD

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

How to section a large terrace or deck into cozy areas?  . Learn from the best, below.  Why are they the best?  Their livelihood depends u...

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

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

Most days I'm designing a landscape.  On site, in my head or in the office. . Foundation plantings, lawn, annuals, a weekly mow-b...

Their collection, below, better than most museums. Do not know the names of 95% + of these tools.  Do not know how to prop...

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

The old altar table, below, has a new life. In Susanne Hudson's garden.  Doesn't every garden need lamps, books, gravel...

Start collecting now. You've seen dozens of old tool bouquets on toiles across the span of your life. Old tools in my garage...

Surveying gorgeous rooms for any type of basket is instructional. Combos of textures, formal/informal, colors, form, function. 2 of m...

Why buy plant stakes? Sticks are more attractive & FREE. . Garden & Be Well, XO Tara . No sticks? Pilfer what your neighbors pu...

Think, cha-ching, this isn't for you? Poppets, PUPPET BARBUDA will not let you off easy. That measly excuse of no money? HOW TO bui...

Meet Tess my new working girl. Already exceeding expectation, in less than 2 weeks, below, carting home a FIND aka $25 huge ancient oil mas...

Rescued sink, "champagne is on ice in the conservatory", & stand made from leftover structural pieces, century old rescued pin...

Susanne Hudson, a year ago, asked me to build a garden with her for the Penny McHenry Hydrangea Festival. I knew then it must be a Garden ...

Lovely rose arbor, below, yes? It came from a dumpster. . Susanne Hudson saw a commercial awning tossed into a dumpster. She called the bui...

Susanne Hudson used windows from the dump, 2" X 4" 's, opaque corrugated roofing panels, old doors, & #89 granite gravel, ...

Went to Lowe's for bamboo poles, below. Ha, they were almost $3 ea. Making 5 topiary shapes, 4 poles each, at that price? . NOT. . In...

View, below, of Elizabeth Clarkson's living room from her foyer. Seating, below, rims the walls of her foyer. Unseen, below, unless st...