TARA DILLARD

Took me several years to acquire an interesting watering can collection. . Interesting, and affordable. . Once hunted/gathered/sited I l...

Topiaries & terra cotta.  All sizes.  25 a good start. . Enough to set about, and, trade out.  Trade weekly, prevent spider mites...

Their collection, below, better than most museums. Do not know the names of 95% + of these tools.  Do not know how to prop...

Most days of my adult life are spent in beautiful gardens across the globe, designing gardens for future beauty, or in my own sweet garden....

Start collecting now. You've seen dozens of old tool bouquets on toiles across the span of your life. Old tools in my garage...

Keep a pair of Felco pruners at your front door & back door.  Leverage yourself in the garden. . In addition I have baskets & hats...

Decades old, below, the Camellia japonica doesn't require care.  Though it does take your energy.  The energy of appreciating beauty, pi...

As she came in, below, she set her hat & pruners on the window sill. It's a peculiar fetish of mine. . Life creating still life wit...

Don't use a single wheeled wheelbarrow. Double wheeled demand less physically + don't compact the soil as much. . Garden & Be We...

Tucked into a boxwood, below, hidden from most views. Meow. Bamboo rake bought for aesthetics. A neighbor, retired NAVY, taught me how to...

Once, this house had the grandest view of Stone Mountain. Owning most of the land in the view too. Recently sold, its estate sale is on no...

A board, mirror, old tools. Each a rescue. What would you do? Susanne Hudson made this, above, mirror. Hung on an outside wall of her ca...

With wood tines this rake was bought for ornamentation. To create vignettes. Then realizing this is the rake to use on a bluestone terrace...

Setting your tools down, do they look this good? I saw the gardener, as he was working, set these down as I was meandering Great Dixter in ...

Shrubs, urns, tools are the new floral design. Design techniques are the same. But the scale is larger than life. Look close, above, old ...

Sure, it's pretty now but what will it look like in winter? In winter hang an old iron light fixture painted an incredible color. . Ga...

Monty Don's manly wheelbarrow doesn't work for me. Why? Why waste gardening energy with a full wheelbarrow on one wheel? . If you&#...