TARA DILLARD

Most of the historic gardens I've studied across Europe for 2+ decades are farms.  Never anticipating I would be designing a single farm...

Anatomy of designing a garden first for winter, below. . Through the year, let Nature take its course or play with seasonal plantings i...

My new house, 115 year old American farmhouse architecture, has a large formal dining room with a corner of windows.  Not a large arena with...

Vintage ironstone, below, what do you see in the scene?  Decades, I saw, 'boring'. Now, I see prayers of thanks, honoring the g...

Vision questing a barn this month.  Construction was completed recently, and without intervention it is already perfect.  Anything done must...

Modern 2,000+ years ago.  Modern today. . No need to be an expert, to understand why garden centers are not 'on board'. Calm. ...

"Build your own prison" , he said at the start. . She laughed. . 3 years later, pieces of the start have already been u...

If you are a sideways learner you will understand. . I have college degrees, international studies for decades, landscape seminars atte...

 "You must learn now, that the important lesson – as long as you have your health – is that the divide is not between the servants and ...

Still glowing & fragrant, Southern for sweaty-from-the-day, 48 hr whirlwind with Susanne Hudson in good gardens. . Had to share at ...

House, cabin, barns, pastures, lakes, meadows, orchards, livestock are part of her domain. . Family, friends, church, community buildin...

Espalier apples, below, layered with flowering plants increase yields to 80%.  Flowering trees, bushes, ground covers, above/below.  ...

Plain?  No, totally designed. .  Embellishment?  Why?  What is that about?   Lack of confidence, knowledge of the wrong sort, arrogan...