TARA DILLARD

  "Coleridge searched for a unified view of reality that was at once bodily and spiritual."  Sam Dresser. . Go past the 'sign&...

Stone Wall & Finials. . What will you use?  As a finial? .   Pic, above, here . . Pic, above, here . . Pic, above, in my gard...

What type Garden Design survives, centuries, in gardens? . Easy trinity, with limitless permutations; Wild Wood, Meadow, Stone Focal Point...

Gardens begin inside your home.  Looking out. . Your home is the garden's backdrop. . The Agrarian & Pastoral ideal.  Idyll.  Fo...

Get 'the' Garden Design memo, below?  Aside from 'the' memo, what are the bullet points for the memo in macro, not merely mi...

Heads-up, every garden, below, uses the same 'Garden Design'.  Centuries old yet new in each incarnation. . If you've found yo...

Choosing pots for your garden, choose pots fabulous empty.  Another aid in choosing a pot, ask yourself, "Is this pot so wonderful it w...

Layers of narrative, below.  At the front end of learning Garden Design professionally, mid-20's,  this type of garden, below, equaled t...

Approach, below. Obvious, below, pair of urns as back drop to the bench.  But wait. there is more. Look what happens, below, with on...

A current client, 14 acres, and well tucked into their property, built a new home to look like a historic home.  At the first visit I fell f...

Through the decades how many discarded shovels have I seen?  Never did I see this, below, in them. Pic, above, here . . "...expre...

Truly curious.  Did green waves, below, start life as green meatballs?  Hope these green waves sail a thousand ships. . Fence color.  Perf...

Always a good day, learning something new.  Pot cluster in terra cotta drew my eye, then saw the scalloped metal trays to catch water.  They...

Once I decided to create a beautiful garden, age 22, living in a garage apartment, no suffering it had 3 bays backing up to 50 acres of wood...

Another Green Man , below.  If you don't know Green Man, take the link, centuries of lore, multiple continents & cultures. . This ...

A trade article I read earlier this year, European sourced, blamed the lack of young'ish people gardening upon 'older' people be...

Made me laugh, below.  Know why? . Think back to a Garden Design Rule.  Broke it here, in triplicate.  Backhand down the line winner. . ...

Divine smash-up of mid-century modern AND historic Garden Design. . My kind of maintenance too.  Rustic, refined.  Sharp mind, sure hand. ...

Winter.  Design your garden for winter, and it will be pretty all year. . Terra cotta pot, below, stopped my eyes/heart/head.  Hmm.  Never...

Well placed urn focal point, below, at the end of the path.  The Garden Design for the urn is playing a Bigger Game.  Do you already see? ....