TARA DILLARD

 No detail for your garden is too small.  Apologies, for decades, overlooking the obvious, below. . Notice the pigeons? . They're dyed. ...

 Garden Design is a series of negotiations.  Amazingly you think you're the negotiator. . More than the sound of wind thru foliage is a ...

"The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.  Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it....

How to section a large terrace or deck into cozy areas?  . Learn from the best, below.  Why are they the best?  Their livelihood depends u...

Once you've toured historic gardens across Europe, twice minimum, a theme appears from the oldest, 2-4 centuries, gardens.  The oldest g...

I was in the shed a couple of months ago, and this was the view, below.  Interesting.  The table/chairs/gravel/trees were designed from anot...

Do you know, below, what you're looking at? . Seeing stone terraces with 'weeds' in the cracks, was a moth-to-a-flame epiphany...

Concise architecture, verdant vining vertical lawn, primitive shutters, hi Victorian crenelated benches, potted plantings, no foundation pla...

Perhaps for a party, below, the pair of potted hydrangeas?  Love of hydrangeas, past president of the American Hydrangea Society, here, the ...

Commonly, side yard real estate is ignored.  Perhaps a nod to creating a 'nice' pass-through, at most. . They got the memo, below....

"The Complete Book of Garden Magic" , by Roy Biles is quite dear to my heart.  Discovered before internet cell phones it was a boo...

Take from the best, leave the rest.  One of the best small gardens I've seen in awhile.  Formal & rustic, pretty all year, layers of...

Oh my, below.  A lot of stone, and effort.  Wish I could have our stone mason, using the same stones, do his magic.  Giving him total freed...

Gabion wall, below, taming a slope. Pic, above, here .   Gabion wall, above/below, total environment creation.  Outside the wall, i...