TARA DILLARD

Hello gorgeous, below. . You got me with your almost brutally modern architecture, smashed into historic Garden Design. . Then you dropp...

Do you see the manipulations, below? Seating to create a gathering spot, figs for summer shade/winter sun over the benches, drystack ...

Rescued: door, windows, stool.   Love the sexy lines of this stool, we chose it first so more galvanized accouterments placed for...

Over my fireplace mantel today. What do you do with your worn out & broken tools? . Garden & Be Well, XO Tara . Yes, scre...

Got heads? They're for exterior, and interior. . Have you noticed a formula for your favorite interiors & exte...

She will have a stone roundabout with historic French church gargoyle setting atop a plinth of granite, at its center,  in her garden. ...

Lunch, below, this week.  Every home seen from the chair I sat in was a century old and white clapboard.   Front porch columns each h...

Texture, scale, flow, color, invitation, narrative, poverty cycle, light, fragrance, repetition, simplicity, intellect, ceiling, walls, f...

Design your garden for deep winter. It will be pretty all year. . Garden & Be Well,      XO Tara . Pic Belgian Pearls . . R...

Something new to desire.                                                     And I don't mean man or child.  How did I miss these...

Mantles, tables, chests, dressers, bookshelves, and their flotsam/jetsom, tell me how to arrange clients gardens. Do they like simplicity...

Perusing quickly I immediately knew this silhouette, below. Impact was immense.  Silhouettes are a huge Landscape Design tool.  Trees, b...

Landscape Design begins inside your home.  My 'office' yesterday, below. When I saw the broad curve of the marble, below, I knew ex...

Her potager is barely 3' deep, below.  No problem planting a pair of espalier apple trees, above.  They require little space. She offer...

The very best containers?  NEVER NEED PLANTING.  Any container considered for purchase, ask yourself, "Is this so fabulous it can remai...

Poke Salad, aka Poke Weed, in the foreground, below Arching tendrils of pearls & foliage contrasting deliciously with the crape myrtle....

A bit of distance from my garden, macro, below.  Closer, below, you see colors & textures  Up-close, below, you see micro details. ....

Simplicities: trim color is not a bright white, no window screens, interior window treatments are elegant, lights on inside, contrasting fo...

Landscape Design takes advantage of everything you have, inside & outside. Repetition of form is a subtle, potent, tool. . Garden &...

Each garden room should have a cone shaped evergreen. Bringing eyes to the sky. . Honestly, dahlings, I don't make this stuff up. . Mo...