TARA DILLARD

This one makes me smile, below, it's so real, it's true. . Go team, the enfilade, color, function, vanishing threshold, a house/po...

Studying garden pics on book/magazine covers since the 80's, it's not hard to realize the more entry ways a garden has, the better a...

Past client called for their new home.  This is a copy of the Garden Design the sellers gave them at closing, below.  Sellers had done a gut...

Zipping with speed thru pics, this deck, below, stopped me. . A hearty bravo to the brainwave.  Then, overdose-on-a-theme, the roof ! . ...

A single client, in decades, with consistent much too amazing winds. . We've been in our ca. 1900 American farmhouse a year.  Twenty m...

From forever I've learned best from completed problems, pictures & places.  Copy the best, copy what works, saves time/money. . Si...

In a subdivision, below, without the trees you would see neighbor's houses from the front porch. Whenever you see the gardener, d...

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

Hope the luxury of designing a porch is yours, not a previous owner. . 1.  Plenty of electrical outlets.  Every wall should have 1 or m...

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

Intense restraint and another example of the color trinity green-brown-white. Restraint so intense the terrace has become a prosceniu...

Vertical lawn, below. Don't have a stone villa?   Espalier a woody shrub.  No wires or trellis needed. . Oddly, the perfec...

When the garden is a feature of the kitchen I know the architect has gone beyond their education .  And delved into the realm of intuitiv...

How little can you have and it be a garden? Remember Gertrude Jekyll's "....the first thing I consider, when planning a gar...

Garden Design is not about having a perfect garden. It's about having a beautiful garden without stress.  From every window a be...

Perfect place to get a few things done on the laptop, a quick lunch, perhaps a grandchild coloring? Maybe it's only an extra chai...

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

Of course the patina of the rooster is white.  It's her theme. To the left of their front door, below. To the right of their...

It's common to see a basement door with lawn.  And nothing else. Mother-in-law Suite doesn't aptly describe this rendition. ...

Don't know where to begin your Garden Design? Begin with a table outside.  You must eat. . Then, begin with layers of green: tr...