Landscape Your Life, Design Your Environment & Nourish Your Soul. PS: Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe now to Timeless Landscape Design. iTunes | Android | Stitcher | TuneIn | Google Play The Big Picture. Your Tricky Place. The Wish List. Sustainability. Natural Disasters. I’m visual learner and welcome words that light sparks in my mind. Let’s set a visual […]
Timeless Landscape Design : The Garden Talk Salon 2018 with landscape architect, Mary Palmer Dargan Landscape Your Life, Design Your Environment and Nourish Your Soul. Hello and welcome! This is Mary Palmer Dargan. I’m mixin’ up recipes to landscape your life. After a long day of work, I need the garden to nourish my mind, […]
Harvest time is upon us. My blackberries, plums, kale & cucumbers are begging for appreciation. Why do we love to put-up a harvest? Is it the ephemeral burst of flavor captured in bottle… the tastes of summer brought inside… or the pursuit of health for your family and friends? Please Save My Seat! Late in life, I learned […]
May 25 at 4 pm, Mary Palmer Dargan share the tricks of her trade at the Albert Carlton Library in Cashiers. http://fontanalib.org/cashiers Trick Places refers to landscapes that are fragile, steep, complicated – but never boring! Do you have problems with your Parking, Terraces, Outdoor Dining & Pavilions, Captured Views, Steps & Walkways, Art & Sculpture, Seating Areas, Water & Basins, Gardens, FirePits, Service Areas, Pots and Planters, Parties or Lighting? […]
We’re delighted to have Carl and Ethan Peverall with us at the Garden Talk Salon. The Grand Opening of Contemporary Stonehenge is upon us May 25 at 5:30 pm at Dovecote 35 Flash Point Drive Cashiers, NC ( next to Cornucopia off hwy 107s) 828-743-0307 Meet Carl at the party and join us also […]
Whew. Its taken a summer like 2016 when friends and family had calamities, passed away or got really sick to make me appreciate my garden and health even more… and then the specter of scary local fires burning thousands of acres in our treasured Smoky Mountains which made me appreciate our fragile ecosystem. This blog […]
The prospect of saying yes…not a decision taken lightly. The invitation extended to chair the Jan Wyatt Symposium 2017 for the Cashiers Historical Society, by Ann McKee Austin ( from whom it is impossible to decline a volunteer invitation) and president, Connie Haire, was a surprise. Do I shoot myself after saying yes? NO. I’d promised my […]
Drink Your Own Garden Demonstration at Cashiers Historical Society’s fabulous Burt Farm Showhouse 3 pm TODAY Mary Palmer Dargan demonstrates handcrafted bitters techniques and shares recipes you can use to harvest the best flavors and healthy drinks from your own garden, or even forage from the roadsides! ( note: I picked the elderberries pictured below just this […]
The Garden World in Miniature! Tomorrow, we have an ‘on demand’, an open miniature gardens workshop at Dovecote in Cashiers, NC ! Please join us at 10 am, July 29. Just come and bring whatever…a $15 set up includes drilling holes in containers, drainage rocks, potting soil, some ground cover ( moss & small sedums) […]
Cookin’ on the Wild Side is here and live tomorrow, July 8 at 10 am. Watch from your facebook page ! Dovecote Porch & Gardens in Cashiers NC is hosting. Friend Dovecote’s page and join us for the informative demonstration! Wild Cooking? What is this? Also known as Wildcrafting, it means you use locally sourced […]
