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...

300 acres, 3 'mostly' matching pots totaling 3 centuries of age and no pots placed on the property, yet.   (Does the pot, below, ...

Every garden view should be 'art' on the wall. 2+ decades ago I visited a garden in Greensboro, NC with every window view tak...

With a view, below, you must be able to turn around and have an equally fabulous view, below.  Double Axis. Had the good fortun...

Foyer, below, with garden light. Window, above, from the front porch, below. It's my job, vanishing threshold, getting it ...

Have your eyes & brain accepted this, below?   Aside from lust pure astonishment.  This retaining wall is hidden away in the family ...

Sandra Espinet, designed a perfect Double Axis.  From inside the living room, below, looking out to the pavilion.  From the garden, be...

A woodland entry was added to their property, alleviating traffic issues at the family entry.  Formal aspects abound elsewhere.  Keeping RUS...

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...

Garden Design Rule : Talk about what you want to do in your garden with friends. You'll be surprised how much FREE stuff you'll get...

Tara Turf, below. Meadow of whatever the wind blows in & bulbs-clover-herbs-whatever you want, mown at different heights. (Discovered ...

Moss & lichens are worn as jewelry upon this bench. TARA TURF is its carpet. Discovered over a decade ago during a study tour of Scotl...

Entering Great Dixter, below, the household drive. Tires crunching along the gravel, scent of meadow. Passing thru the yew hedge into this...

A landscape where you might see a, "disheveled wood nymph after a night carousing with satyrs." as N. Singer wrote. Oops, digress...

Serious about low maintenance landscaping? Soil & flowers require watering. I adore Susanne Hudson's visual pun, below. My birdhou...

How did the hydrangeas KNOW where to grow? This is not a 'styled' picture. It's viewed thru my kitchen & bedroom windows....

A century old, at least, I copied it in my landscape. Outside. (Thank you Pigtown*Design , it was your idea.) And I don't like to colle...