TARA DILLARD

Layers of narrative, below.  Color echoes a home run, for starters.  White to silvers, very nice. . Curiosity too.  Hydrangeas, below, at ...

Start collecting now. You've seen dozens of old tool bouquets on toiles across the span of your life. Old tools in my garage...

What is the fascination with lawns? French parks have beauty, children playing, adults relaxing, Nature thriving, without lawns.  F...

Princess Sturdza's home, Le Vasterival, and garden in France were a hilarious welcome.  She was waiting for us standing on a tree stu...

Every garden must have at least 1 cone shaped evergreen. Draw eyes to the sky. More about this Italian garden, above, here . Gertrude Jeky...

Deep winter dormant, I still know what this garden looks like. And why it works. Formal hardscape: hedges & lines contrasted with chao...

Know how to create less maintenance, below? Replace turf with groundcover . . Notice what is not in this landscape? NO FOUNDATION PLANTING ...

Shrubs, urns, tools are the new floral design. Design techniques are the same. But the scale is larger than life. Look close, above, old ...

Will stain lattice boxes, wall brackets, & white lantern green to match the rest of the wood in my garden. Chickenwire cloches will be ...

Gertrude Jekyll, world's 1st landscape designer, said, When I design a landscape the FIRST thing I consider is what to put on the house....

A Scottish study concluded, living in eyesight of a landscape extends life. Not gardening. Seeing. How much better seeing a beautiful lands...