TARA DILLARD

The first time I arrived to Penny's drive, below, my car stopped as the hydrangeas lay heavy either side my hood.  Had to stop.  To take...

  Do you know why the gate, below, has its styling? .  Think chickens.   . This gate was designed to keep chickens from wandering a...

The brilliant 'Urn Idea' atop their low columns was nixed immediately. Instead, we'll hunt for these caps, above. . Brai...

At my front gate my apple orchard with H. 'Tardiva', above, and R. triloba, below. In person the visible is a workin...

Ca. 1400. Chain at the gate says the fencing isn't about keeping only wildlife out.  And she had to chain it while in the garden?...

May Day, yesterday, at one of my jobsites, below. White fence?  Not happening.  Made the space smaller & became a focal point.  D...

Credentials.  Every element designed.  My general contractor had the audacity to ask if I sited the daffodils. Receiving my gimlet eye, no ...

Multiple meetings with the mason, iron monger & carpenter. Each with decades of experience. Attention to details. Each ...

Landscape Design question, "Can you take black/white pics of your garden & it's TIMELESS ? Was this pic taken 2012 o...

Leggy Hags!  And this latest pruning is wrong too.  Want lush foliage top to bottom?  Prune the top of your bushes slightly narrower than ...

  200 acres.  Attention to detail.  Even hinges receive total teamwork with owner, ironmonger, me. . Garden & Be Well,          ...

I'm hunting garage doors that swing open.  The garage is a charming 1945 cinder block with low sloped roof.  Privacy is an issue, and m...

Designing gates vs. seeing gates.  Does this gate have hog wire at the top?  Is hog wire needed?  To keep the chickens in, or out?  Coon...

The Ancient Orchard is new, its bricks are over a century old.  4 sided, doors let you into each side.  Each door is custom, and each door...

I don't believe in Gardening For Children.  A fully formed adult, gardening from their heart will attract children.  Children of all age...

Her gate has to let a horse & carriage thru, we left a 12' opening.  Before choosing the new gate a new drive was in use and a new ...

We need a door to balance the fabulousity of historic brick, acreage, meandering heirloom chickens, orchard, potager, Jacobs sheep, ornament...

She is Spomenka.  We call each other 'Sister'.  From Croatia, she has family there. Sister sent me this last week, from Croatia. ....

Have your eyes locked on the Leather Hinges? Mary Kistner, a mentor, said, "It's what we do with what we have."  No, I woul...

For decades I've designed gardens. What I know for sure? It's not about the plants. By the time someone contacts me they are in a...