TARA DILLARD

Most notably, in the garden, below, is the hedge.  Yet not the only notable element.  At the front end of reading this post, make your list ...

Met with a client yesterday, we did their backyard 2 years ago, and she needed a quick hour.  Several topics. . Last topic, her small fron...

Decades ago she was at the slave cabin and knew, "This will be a bench in my garden." . Hearthstone of the fireplace, below...

  Their French architecture manor house is in a subdivision with ubiquitous, and aging, landscaping. . Fabulous timing for me to design...

Under a pecan tree not much grows. . Tara Turf is best. . Why? . Increased pollinator habitat increases crop yield up to 80%. ...

Not only historic, I want my garden designs to be redolent of having read, and adored, E.M.Forster.  Jane Austen, Wendell Berry, my grandmo...

Cute kills. Whimsey is for the intellect. . Pure narrative.  Got any in your garden?  These cats, this narrative, melts me. . Gar...

At the pool an outdoor kitchen is planned under the new room addition.  Yesterday's meeting included lighting choices.   And spac...

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

Classic Landscape Design, below, focal point with backdrop. What you don't know? . Bench, tiny flagstone terrace, pots are at the prop...

Mershon Hall, below, site of class I'm teaching at Atlanta Botanical Garden. Magic-be-in-this-garden. . You must understand it's...

CONTRAST is Landscape Design's potent tool.      Penelope Bianchi is the QUEEN OF CONTRAST.  Above, a high density garden room.  Lots o...

A lovely incident along the gravel path, below. (Notice stone edged gravel, decrepit terra cotta, leaf litter mulch? Melts my heart.) Same ...

From, The Bed of Procrustes , a new book by Nassim Taleb . "Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more...

Chandelier Chick, single with a fabulous career taking her across the continents, rents a tiny working-class ca. 1940's cottage, the las...

A note yesterday, "Should I buy a pair of these.....?" "Yes", in reply. $200 each. Don't know the name of the shop...

Scored concrete & a roundabout of pavers in the parking court, below, diminish its 'nature'. Softens the impact. From their fab...

Behind the hemlock, below, a street & stop sign. View from the bench, above, another street & another stop sign. . Yes, the front c...

Lining the foundation of this ranch, below, were the obligatory-neatly-in-a-row, evergreen meatballs. Between the house & frontdoor si...

"What can I do?", below, in my email last week. In winter a wasteland , above/below. A few ideas to fix this landscape : evergr...