TARA DILLARD

A 1st order Garden Design rule is to use contrasts for impact, big leaves next to small leaves, burgundy foliage next to chartreuse, rounded...

For 20 years of my career, Southern Living magazine was 'the' resource for clients.  Most had pages dog-eared or torn out ready to ...

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...

“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safer...

We could do anything, below, at this portion of the Orchard wall. . Money was not the hunt. . Creating a historic garden is the dec...

Design Rule: Contrast. . A touch of the Queen + Ellie Mae Clampett. . Urn on Plinth + Galvanized Buckets hanging with ropes. ...

Furniture textures are important.  In addition to color. A new covered screened porch, above/below, with warmth & welcome. ...

Do you see the manipulations, below? Seating to create a gathering spot, figs for summer shade/winter sun over the benches, drystack ...

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

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

Invitation.    "...eternals as applicable in the smallest of spaces as in the vast acres of a country house garden." ...

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

The 1945 Florida room with 3 walls of jalousie windows  will be decorated in blue & white.  Using Bunny Williams style.  Like ...

The hedge is brilliant.  Vine on the risers is more brilliant. Topiaried green meatballs are fun.  Terra cotta on the table?  Perfection...

Her jobsite is a bit far & I had to run for the powder room in her home every time I arrived.  Now, she's put a bathroom, below, in...

Technically this, below, is not simple.  There is a lot of 'stuff'.  But it looks simple. Why does it look fabulous?  What is the t...

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

My realm is residential landscape design. Specifically, Queen of subdivision Landscape Design . (Younger, I would have taken this as insul...