TARA DILLARD

Low Tara Turf, below.  From 1st meeting adored its charm, character, function.  Here, perfectly balanced with formal pruning, canopy, open, ...

Oddly, most often, adding 'more' to a small space, enlarges it.  Another of those COUNTERINTUITIVITIES about Garden Design.  Off top...

A great wheelbarrow path, below.  Single wheel of course.  Double wheeled wheelbarrows are easier, less weight to balance, and my preference...

Vertical lawn, below.  Vine or espalier woody shrub, no worries, either can be your vertical lawn. Pic, above, here . . Plenty of lus...

Dealing with contractors for 30 years, as a woman, never ceases to amaze.  Everything in my Garden Designs has been done for CENTURIES.  I&#...

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

Clive Nichols, below.  He shoots a garden, and it is his garden, yet given away as shutter snaps. Of course you want your fee...

Levens Hall, The Lake District, Cumbria, was the first European study garden I visited.  I was on my way to Scotland to study historic ga...

Cloudy, cold, one of the coldest days, so far, this year, yesterday, and at a jobsite in the windiest county of the state. . A thou...

No room for 'lawn'?  Little space to landscape? . Go vertical. . Woody shrubs with medium or slow growth are best.  No ...

What to do when your foundation has plastic coverings at the windows to your basement?    With this eyesore, abolish your foundation planti...

Christopher Lloyd said, "The garden dies when the gardener dies." Gertrude Jekyll's beloved home, Munstead Wood, above. . T...

Visiting David Austin Roses in England is more than roses. It's good Landscape Design. Fabulous focal points. And worth the effort. My...

My beautiful pot on plinth, below, placed on axis with the middle window pane of my bay window at the drawing room. Thus sited, it's pa...

I took this pic in the Cotswolds in Sir Hardy Amies garden. A complete landscape design course, in one picture. . Looks easy, can you do it?...

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

Constance Spry, below, of floral fame. A nice article about her in yesterday's NYTimes. With her, ca. 1960, Sir Hardy Amies. . A deca...

Sharon Lovejoy visited Beatrix Potter's home recently, below. Poppets, look at that darling BEEHIVE !!!!!!!!!!! . Exactly what I need f...

The best landscapes have elements, below, of the Sacred and elements, below, of the Profane. Landscape design is about contrasts. . The Sac...

Think this is unkempt? A landscape design, above, an illusion of country. Nature. Not one leaf is unconsidered. The dirt path? Part of...