TARA DILLARD

What type Garden Design survives, centuries, in gardens? . Easy trinity, with limitless permutations; Wild Wood, Meadow, Stone Focal Point...

How to section a large terrace or deck into cozy areas?  . Learn from the best, below.  Why are they the best?  Their livelihood depends u...

Choosing pots for your garden, choose pots fabulous empty.  Another aid in choosing a pot, ask yourself, "Is this pot so wonderful it w...

Creating a container, or several, for the upcoming holidays.  With beauty, and without angst. . Ingredients easily transposed to what you ...

Last question, finishing a Garden Design, What can I take out and it holds together? . There is so little here, below.  Yet overwhelmed in...

Focal points in your garden must be so wonderful they are fought over at your estate sale. . One focal point per garden room, subsidiary f...

Clearly a master's touch, below, playing with history, cunningly modern. . Whimsy, below, in the metaphor of sanctity.  What?  Takin...

Pulling the gate/columns forward, below, welcomes you from the wide world into their private world, elongates the entry, and adds a foyer to...

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

Helping, with Beloved, my mom buy a new car, I had a great chance at Garden Design.  Exactly, no life activity unrelated to Garden Design. ...

"Build your own prison" , he said at the start. . She laughed. . 3 years later, pieces of the start have already been u...

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

Plain?  No, totally designed. .  Embellishment?  Why?  What is that about?   Lack of confidence, knowledge of the wrong sort, arrogan...

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...

Under a pecan tree not much grows. . Tara Turf is best. . Why? . Increased pollinator habitat increases crop yield up to 80%. ...

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

This, below, has already gone to my contractor. A gardener's kitchen. All about the garden view. . Contractor's r...

Nothing was here, below, a few days ago.   The porch, below, when we began. The corner 'before', above, and 'a...