TARA DILLARD

After acquiring an  American degree in horticulture, educated to be a guy in a truck mowing grass, blowing clippings, siting plants in outcu...

Attracted to the marvelous sliding doors, below, the wood stoop and small planters had me send this fabulous home & garden to my Pintere...

Off the edge of perfect, below, beyond perfect. . Have never understood the predilection for oversized lights at a front door.  Studying h...

Glen Ella , below, New Year's Eve. . Still in use, their barn, more than a century later, its current garden design pulls deep admi...

For decades this, below, was a bare slope with mulch. Now, flow exists around the entire home. . Flow.  Is it easy to walk arou...

Easy knowing they use their front porch, below.  Mosquito repellent sitting at the French doors on the right. . Their front yard is lar...

Ceilings are not high, below.  A transom was over the door.  I removed it and added a taller door & sidelights.  Creating more height...

Met a new client last nite with a no-mans-land of trees/ivy/invasives/drainage ditch/weeds.  Its ownership 'looks' like it could be...

Beware the landscape contractor, with one of my Garden Designs, "No, can't be done." Stupid does have a price tag. . ...

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

When the competition is an old Pecan Orchard I know to go simple, below. Soon the tea olive, above, will engulf the end of the porc...

New construction completed earlier this year, below.  House & garden stand sentry as old souls. Shadows fall on their prosceniu...

Subtle drama, ego in check.  Pair of stone columns, iron gate, half-round stone steps & on axis a Japanese maple.  Not a gaudy statue o...

Have your eyes & brain accepted this, below?   Aside from lust pure astonishment.  This retaining wall is hidden away in the family ...

 Landscape Design after, above.  A bit of work so obvious no one thinks a Landscape Designer is needed.  Afterall, the builder & previou...

We only needed a bit of a step, below.  With great joy we found the perfect stone on site. . It speaks of rivers, dinosaurs, time. . La...

Fieldstone steps, below.  Pure labor, no mortar/concrete. Cheapest choice when I began my career.  Now, depending upon the jobsite, pre-cut ...

A 40 acre Alabama garden I'm working on has the bones of Gertrude Jekyll's home, Munstead Wood, below. I've been asked to put in...

Landscapes take 3 + years to look good, on average. Most gardens get stuck in the '+'. Unfinished, this garden is ready for showtim...

Carriage house, fescue, boxwoods, pair of elms, stone wall/stone terrace/steps, below, all new, perhaps 12 minutes old in the pic. Client is...