TARA DILLARD

Vertical Lawn, below. . Few houses can withstand a clinging vine, instead, I like to use espalier woody flowering shrubs.  No trellis, no ...

Clearly a master's touch, below, playing with history, cunningly modern. . Whimsy, below, in the metaphor of sanctity.  What?  Takin...

From the 1st visit with the realtor to our new home, I KNEW the garden around the house would be gravel with meandering paths & terraces...

Home for shelter, pastures for livestock, hedgerows/ornamentals for pollinators, walled gardens for fruit/vegetables, aesthetics for spir...

Keep- it- Simple- Sweetie works, every time. . Perhaps my Garden Design rule breaker , Overdose- on- a- Theme , is how you want to gard...

Espalier apples, below, layered with flowering plants increase yields to 80%.  Flowering trees, bushes, ground covers, above/below.  ...

Ca. 1950 ranch.  Front yard, house on the golf course. . Drawn on site.  Folding table/chair moved a dozen times. . Don't mess ...

You do a thing in the garden with your full IQ, passion, energy, wallet, time.  Influenced by era. . At my front door, above, if yo...

No room for 'lawn'?  Little space to landscape? . Go vertical. . Woody shrubs with medium or slow growth are best.  No ...

At my front gate my apple orchard with H. 'Tardiva', above, and R. triloba, below. In person the visible is a workin...

 Rabbit fence for the potager.  Perfect for a chicken run  too. . Garden & Be Well,  XO Tara . Pic via Content in a Cottage .

 Choose a theme, Overdose on your Theme . . Orchard House, (aka my starter home in a working class neighborhood of cluster homes ca. 19...

Quite nice color echo from purple furniture to loropetalum. What would you do, below, with this 'pedestrian' landscape?  Very...

No room for a fruit tree? If you have the right wall with sun you do. . Fruit trees can be bought already espaliered. . Isn't...

Her potager is barely 3' deep, below.  No problem planting a pair of espalier apple trees, above.  They require little space. She offer...

Vines on a wood house?  No.  There are ways but I'm too lazy.  Vine clinging to stucco/stone, below,  a case of desire from Italy.  Can&...

Simplicities: trim color is not a bright white, no window screens, interior window treatments are elegant, lights on inside, contrasting fo...

When the actor Jimmy Stewart died in 1997 the obit picture was taken in his garden. Oh, BEAUTY. I, I, me-me-me, I, I, wanted THAT type of ...