TARA DILLARD

Hello gorgeous, below. . You got me with your almost brutally modern architecture, smashed into historic Garden Design. . Then you dropp...

A friend created a Moon Garden.  Circle of comfy chairs around a fire ring, open to wide expanse of sky.  Many moons we shared, in her Moon ...

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

Last week I completed a Garden Design for a local family.  Their home is new construction on 35 acres of beautiful farm land, open, wooded, ...

Beautiful easy landscape design course, below, in a single picture. . What is here? . Scale, flow, invitation, axis, double axi...

Bare essentials, below. Pair of square planters, pair of round planters, and jewelry. . Just as salt/pepper are pantry staples, gar...

Home Depot has propane outdoor heaters in a half-pint size. Table top sized.  Easily moved.  Where have I been? . Garden & Be ...

A picture note for the garden. Shopping list: lights.  Prefer to make my own tuteurs. . Twigs/wood can be found easily. . Why hav...

Do you have a shadow-on-the-walls fetish? . They are my catnip.  Especially their ephemerality. . In particular, the shadows of m...

At a century old the faux bois lamp post, below, in Shaw Park Botanical Garden , Jamaica, is perfection. . Walk too fast & y...

Hanging from a large oak tree, below, chandy stays on 24/7. Recognize the tablecloth?  Erosion control fabric.  Bought in huge rolls....

Sofa table, below, rather formulaic with pair of lamps & table toppers. Laughably obvious!  Yes, put the sofa table outside. ....

A real farmhouse kitchen.   The island, above, is an old dresser with detailing applied to  the back. She removed a wall betwe...

Front porch, below.  Lamp seen from the front porch, above, and from inside, below. Further to the left of the lamp, below. ...

Often I'm designing a garden when the interior is being renovated. I adore seeing the lighting chosen.  Breakfast room, above, ma...

Endangered object, below. Sweetly scaled pendant light. . A front door is always a focal point.  When architecture & materials...

Function, a certain elegance, and a craftsman who obviously cared. Antique junk shop with vendor stalls this building, below, started...

Pair of pots, pair of lights, pair of sidelights, black front door.                                                        Works in ...

All new construction, below, constraints galore.  Never knew steps & under-the-steps could be this joyful. Use lattice or ceiling...

Gardens begin inside. Looking out the window, above/below. And, looking in the same window. . Landscape Design is more than p...