TARA DILLARD

Focal points in your garden must be so wonderful they are fought over at your estate sale. . One focal point per garden room, subsidiary f...

Age 8, saw my 1st garden like this, below, in Augusta, GA.  The adults were content to stay inside & chat.  I did the rude child thing, ...

Not a focal point, below, but a grand subsidiary focal point. . Garden Design Rule: One Focal Point per Area. . Not my rule, but ag...

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

Do you see the manipulations, below? Seating to create a gathering spot, figs for summer shade/winter sun over the benches, drystack ...

Tucked in 'as if' it were being worked. Subsidiary focal point. Yes, this client is waltzing with her garden now.  Leadi...

Don't tell me 'welcome' with letters on a sign or doormat, show me. The curb appeal of this tiny frontyard says, "...

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

Don't you adore hearing a new strange fact, and know it's true immediately? Every garden needs a desk. First shared with...

"Hanging hydrangea", said Robin \ to Batman. . How few choose to hang their 6" pots of hydrangea! . Garden &...

Accessorize. Focal points are macro garden design. Accessories are subsidiary focal points. The micro garden design. . Pe...

If your secondary subsidiary focal points are 'animals' make sure they are in relationship to their surroundings. . ...

Be wary of words in a garden.   Welcome?  Don't have it in a 'word', say it with your front door, paint color, light fixt...

Once established, your garden shouldn't be in need of watering cans. Pots, yes.  Shrubs/groundcovers/trees/bulbs?  No. . P...

Decrepit, sets the timeline at any spot across the last few decades.  A narrative.  Timelessness. The Well Placed Chair must sui...

Porch, turkeys, garden, a new trinity.  This is my job, below.  Do you see what I've done?   Designed the garden as a proscenium...

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

In the garden & inside you must have cloches. Seeing, above, I knew my predilection for the unusual inside-a-cloche completely ig...

Subsidiary focal points should 'just touch' some foliage.  It ties the subsidiary focal point to the garden.  Instead of the ...

On axis with the doors, below, this tiny space lives large.  It has the potential for 3 more potent axis. Purring at the formal lines + rus...