TARA DILLARD

"...the ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms, not to mention the ...

Layers of narrative, below.  At the front end of learning Garden Design professionally, mid-20's,  this type of garden, below, equaled t...

A trade article I read earlier this year, European sourced, blamed the lack of young'ish people gardening upon 'older' people be...

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

The smallest detail, below, exposes the confident knowledge of historic Garden Design rules. Pic, above, here . . Do you know what the ...

Notice the small evergreen hedging, below, along the gravel?  Thought low hedging was done as a garden design element, in the beginning, as ...

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

From the 1st time studying historic gardens in Europe over 20 years ago, gravel changed every thought about a 'lawn'. . Perhaps it...

Vertical lawn, below.  Vine or espalier woody shrub, no worries, either can be your vertical lawn. Pic, above, here . . Plenty of lus...

An excursion, below, that should be a destination in Garden Design. Pic, above, here . . Using the 3 elements, above, of garden design...

Dinner tonight in honor of a friend's beloved grandmother.  She would have been 99.  Grandma's chocolate pie will be the star, an...

Great example of historic/classic garden design in modernist disguise, below. Don't have a rural property?  Your home is a classic 6...

Perhaps my little stories about gardening should be set within proper context, of their owners.  Every garden designed demands honoring its ...

Credentials I have, yet my true Garden Design education spanned 2+ decades and several continents. . Smiled when I saw this, below....

Recently finished a Garden Design adding a similar metal arbor, below. New construction, the home is American Farmhouse, mostly...

A jobsite desk this week, below. New homeowners bought the 30+ year old home/garden last year. . Gut renovation. . Sadly, pre...

I delight in this perfect, imperceptible, detail.  See the difference between Formal vs. Rustique ? . Of course it made my Pinteres...

Beautiful easy landscape design course, below, in a single picture. . What is here? . Scale, flow, invitation, axis, double axi...