What You Want Now: Hedge - Stick Trees - Tara Turf
Tara Dillard
by Tara Dillard
3y ago
 "Be a good steward of your gifts.  Protect your time.  Feed your inner life.  Avoid too much noise.  Read good books, have good sentences in your ears.  Be by yourself as often as you can.  Walk.  Take the phone off the hook.  Work Regular Hours."  Jane Kenyon . Garden parts, below, naming themselves, personally for you.  Hedges, Stick trees, Tall Tara Turf & Mown Tara Turf.  Focal Point on Axis: Path to House.   . Garden Design as Lecture Titles, above.  Not your style, below?  Come, walk with me.  Won't ..read more
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Mad Boy: A Little Madness in the Garden
Tara Dillard
by Tara Dillard
3y ago
 No detail for your garden is too small.  Apologies, for decades, overlooking the obvious, below. . Notice the pigeons? . They're dyed. . The owner's grandfather began the tradition, she, his granddaughter, Sofka, continues it.  There's even a fan club, aka Trust, "Pink Pigeons Trust (named after the Mad Boy's habit of dyeing birds in jewelled hues)." . He dyed his pigeons jewel tones, was nicknamed, Mad Boy, and had a stunning garden.  Hope there is a heaven, and Mad Boy is busy in his celestial garden, awaiting all of us to visit.  What types of ideas and mischief's ..read more
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The Zen of Roadside Foliage: Carlos David
Tara Dillard
by Tara Dillard
3y ago
Mundane subtlety hidden amongst the interior, below. . When so much is a one-trick-pony, hope you take this mundane subtlety into your home, and heart.  This pony never disappoints. . What's the rabbit hole, below?  THE STORY thread in all the pics?      Pic, above, here. . "Your thoughts create your world."  Buddist . All I see, in every pic, above/below, are the MUNDANE ARRANGEMENTS. . Why mundane?  Some are taken from invasive plantings, some from shrubs needing pruning, one is more formally 'normal', flowers.        Pic, above, he ..read more
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Principles vs. Preferences: Head + Heart + Life = Alignment
Tara Dillard
by Tara Dillard
3y ago
Traditionally designed, below, I would say, "No", to any client or friend wanting this. . Gardening with preferences toward profane beauty no longer interest my soul.  Sacred beauty, yes, I will design a similar garden, below.   . What's the difference?  Industrialized landscaping vs. Agrarian Gardening.  Principles vs. Preferences.  With the former, soil, water, wildlife harmed.  Toxic soil, toxic water from fertilizers and chemicals, leaving no habitat for wildlife.  The latter, Earth is regenerated.  More, the land is redeemed.  You too are ..read more
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In Your Garden: Focal Point Ideas
Tara Dillard
by Tara Dillard
3y ago
 "Coleridge searched for a unified view of reality that was at once bodily and spiritual."  Sam Dresser. . Go past the 'sign', below.  A story written, without words, in the siting of the benches. . Too often, driving by, benches face traffic.  And, the bench is the sole focal point in the garden.  . The ambit, below, is double direction.  A delight seeing outwardly facing benches, backing up to a beautiful mini-garden.  A rarity, especially in residential Garden Design. . Copy.  Never concern yourself with copying good Garden Design.  It can never ..read more
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The Zen of Choosing The Right Fence Color
Tara Dillard
by Tara Dillard
3y ago
 See the epiphany, about Christopher Spitzmiller's fence, below?  . Seriously, I want you to verbalize, aloud, why his fence, below, is divine.  Not using 'divine' flippantly here.  It's in earnest.  . Hint, Christopher didn't want you to see any epiphany about his fence.  None.  He almost had me too.  Realized hours later, BRAVO Christopher, you did the classic, the centuries old.  . Why do we assign our Garden Design choices to 'Socially Acceptable' ? . Majority of people are unhappy with their landscape.  Gardens are here for us, to enrich o ..read more
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Getting To Tara Turf: Man #4
Tara Dillard
by Tara Dillard
3y ago
 "Dear Tara, This portion of Meadow Talk follows your writing of gardens as sacred and redemptive landscapes.  Joel Salatin is the editor of Stockman Grass Farmer and writes the column." LD . Began a letter, above, mailed with a stamp, from a post office, last March. . Knew Joel Salatin, and his PolyFaceFarms, not his column for Meadow Talk in the newsletteer for Stockman Grass Farmer.  . Salatin included in his column, concerns of MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, professor, Otto Scharmer: "...we're in a civilisational crisis involving three issues: economy, democrac ..read more
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Never Be Stuck Starting Your Garden Design: Use This Design Trick
Tara Dillard
by Tara Dillard
3y ago
 Focal Points On Axis.  Directed, DIRECTLY at you. . Where does your Garden Design begin?  Garden Design begins inside YOUR home. . What?   . Focal Point on Axis.  (Detailed further in my book, Beautiful By Design, and others.) . No book bought no worries, it's simple.     . Inside your home, looking out windows, especially windows you use predominantly, site a focal point on axis. . What focal point?  Doesn't matter.  Can be a plant, can be an object.  If it's an object, you must remember another simple Garden Design Rule.  ..read more
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What Will It Take? Where Do You Start? Moving Into Your Beliefs
Tara Dillard
by Tara Dillard
3y ago
What are your beliefs?  When did you get them?  Are your beliefs intuitive, foundational, since childhood, newly acquired, epiphanies, at a funeral, mentored by another person or in Nature, discovered reading, realized watching an art film, driving when alone, listening to music, when your life fell apart, eating a slow good meal with kindred spirits, self evident, being with your pets, sitting in a Church pew, etc... ? . Can you write your beliefs down?  Not for public consumption; to define them, to yourself.  Zero thoughts of a diary or journal in this, none.  Bette ..read more
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QUICK Free Garden Design Class: Putting Together Patio Table & Chairs For Lunch
Tara Dillard
by Tara Dillard
3y ago
 At first glance, below, knew something 'off' about the dining spot. . Beautiful, yet its layers are a mere simulacrum of beauty, below. . Did you notice quickly too? . The garden takes your heart and mind.  You go into it thinking, your body doing.  The garden is not telling you what to think but letting you think.  Thoughts being worked on by living organically, from before the dawn of time.  A wisdom, coming at your thinking, in partnership with your garden.      Pic, above, here.  . Joy to have the millstone, base, chairs, urn, above.  Yet ..read more
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