TARA DILLARD

Green-brown-white is the top historic exterior color trinity for gardens.  Who, ever, likes/wants rules? . Late to the game, me, once I le...

From the 1st time studying historic gardens in Europe over 20 years ago, gravel changed every thought about a 'lawn'. . Perhaps it...

Not a focal point, below, but a grand subsidiary focal point. . Garden Design Rule: One Focal Point per Area. . Not my rule, but ag...

Choose to make garden mistakes on the side of too simple, too little, too plain. . Better to want more later than dig-up, move planting...

Light from the garden, below. Interesting legs, garden light a few of my favorite things. . Oh my the criticisms, for decades, for ...

Layers of green always work. . Flowers.  Give-me-flowers-or-give-me-ugly seems to be the starter gardener mindset. . Layers of gree...

"Establishing a relationship between unlike objects adds to the interest of a tablescape. An antique French figurine is a three-dime...

 Don't you adore looking at the office's of creative women?  Seeing, somehow, a helpful narrative. I travel miles & er...

Historically inspired gardens demand Pleasure Walks, lunch with friends, wine by the pond, naps in the Conservatory, reading on the t...

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

View into the garden, below.  Pic taken at jobsite last week.  Not mature yet, above, but doing its job.  You don't know what tha...

After his garden he asked for a guest bedroom.  He had parameters, "Use the furniture I own & leftover paint from the garage."...

Can you spot the status symbol? In the land of freeways, subdivisions, strip malls, too many people? . A meadow is status symbol...

Across Europe the best gardens, with attenuated home of course, invite you thru a neo-unprepopressing entry.  Arriving, above, I knew it...

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

Decades old, below, the Camellia japonica doesn't require care.  Though it does take your energy.  The energy of appreciating beauty, pi...

Simplicities in my house, below, intensify  my garden view. Landscapes & interiors are double axis. . How does your landscape look fr...

Paley Park, New York City, NY, below, via . A tiny landscape living BIG. . I've pondered why some little landscapes, including  mine, ...

Lawn should have sections, arriving at, and touching, your home.  Lawn around your home should be cut lower-tidier, above, than lawn further...