TARA DILLARD

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

When friend-client-mentor Mary Kistner invited me to lunch, most often it was the 2 of us.  Her table, whether inside or on her porch, alway...

From the garden, below, a view of the terrace.  Exactly the photographic style of the 80's.  Each piece, every layer, in alignment to th...

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...

Pots, original, as landscape edging? Hardly. A centuries old idea. At my garden, with Susanne Hudson, for the Penny McHenry Hydrangea Fes...

Blessedly I've followed the matriarchs. I did get caught up, alas, yet happily, in the work of Ryan Gainey / Brooks Garcia / David Ben...

Every lunch invitation was coveted. Her long table staged with stems cut that morning from the garden, a beautiful book opened to exactly t...

Where does it go? Client, Friend & Mentor Mary Kistner would have me to lunch. A cloth on her table. Cloth she wove. Flowers she had cut...