TARA DILLARD

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

"A reverence for Nature...", is how the caption begins in Architectural Digest , for the pic, below. Pic, above, here . . ...

Moving from cottage garden to historic American Farmhouse architecture garden has, in less than 2 weeks, taught much. . One lesson, a...

Greatly anticipated, I went to a bridal shower last weekend.   . The bride, fresh master's degree, and new career, made a brillia...

Learned decades ago I cannot design a garden without seeing interiors.  Moving into a new home?  Difficulties designing the garden?  Of cour...

You do a thing in the garden with your full IQ, passion, energy, wallet, time.  Influenced by era. . At my front door, above, if yo...

A bit of vine & gravel to the house. Repeated across continents for centuries. . Affordable to install, inexpensive to mainta...

Pecan Orchard needs a gate. A simple gate. Visiting an English country house & garden I fell in love with this gate. . Simple, but not...

Simplicity. Flat wall softened into 3-D with: light fixture, bell, foliage, arbor. Kinetics of bell, gate, foliage, light, invitation fo...

Gertrude Jekyll, Englishwoman & world's 1st landscape designer, said, When I design a landscape the first thing I consider is what t...

Waking at 2am last night I dwelled upon this man. His PLINTH entertained me. He's Edwardian, placed in an English Park surrounded by hom...

I've seen these steps across Europe. If they're good in someone else's landscape they'll be good in yours. Lutyens did them...

After lecturing last week in England it was off for the backroads, hedgerows, B&Bs, tiny villages and gardens. I was in the Midlands/Co...