TARA DILLARD

In college, Garden Design taught flow, flow of turf, and flow of beds. . Pitiful. . Pic, above, here . . At the time, I knew the educ...

In the past few years, I've added an unexpected tool for a few clients living in subdivisions.  Though not huge landscapes, large enough...

Many times I've used a bit of woodland, buffer between neighbors, as a faux focal point. Occasionally, space allows for this much meande...

"Proportion is the good breeding of architecture.  It is that something, indefinable to the unprofessional eye, which gives repose and ...

Two odd facts about designing your garden, begin with an odder fact.  At the start of your garden design, plants do not matter, don't th...

How will you get from point A to point B ? . Flow. . Flow is at the front end of my Garden Design Equation. . When I was in col...

Lovely home, below, builder-special landscaping. What, below, happened? Adjusting eyeballs back into sockets, the before/after lea...

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

 "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 ...

Beautiful easy landscape design course, below, in a single picture. . What is here? . Scale, flow, invitation, axis, double axi...

Can anyone abide another magazine caption mentioning all you see?  Note, below, ivy clad walls, shuttered French doors, and etc ad naseam. ...

  “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.”...