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, body and soul.

How’s yours workin’ for ya’?  Let’s design your landscape to fit your lifestyle like a glove.

Are You a Visual Learner? (INSERT PODCAST Tricky Places parts 1-3 with links to show notes) ( SUBSCRIBE HERE) 

 

 

 

Timeless Landscape Design with Mary Palmer Dargan : Garden Talk Salon 2018

What? 

Juicy nuggets of garden design brought to you by the The Garden Talk Salon, a think-tank of horticulturists, floral designers, sculptors and designers.

Who?

It all started in 2012 when Hugh & I purchased Dovecote as our landscape architectural office in Cashiers, NC in 2012. Here we’d lived at High Hampton for 16 years on a lovely cottage with 6 gardens we dearly loved, called Highcote. Little Dovecote needed everything.  We enjoyed being in this historic 1929 farm house so much that we kicked the office out and it became our permanent home.  The best part about Dovecote was the space…the unused barn, future sculpture meadow and woodland path to the lake. 

Where? 

Each summer season, we host Friday lectures at Dovecote Gardens, our organic teaching gardens. Contemporary Stonehenge is now in the meadow and features atmospheric stone sculptures by artist, Carl Peverall. At 10 am till noon, from mid- May Mother’s Day until end of August Labor Day, we have a salon. The brightest and most informed experts appear and share their stories about plants, design, cooking or nature. The Garden Talk Salon was born. We are located at 35 Flash Point Drive (aka McKinney Way), Cashiers, NC 28717.

What’s in it for you ?

Your home environment can fit your lifestyle like a glove.

My lifelong mission is to “Heal The Earth One Garden at a Time”.

Now is the time to take your garden to school.

In Timeless Landscape Design, our first 3 podcasts introduce why a master plan is important, and better yet, how to create one in 4 parts that will make your home environment fit your lifestyle like a glove.

This is visual learning at its best. A bonus awaits of a downloadable keynote lecture. Live Garden Talk Salons (GTS)  videos are reduced by magic into smaller bits; these contain useful action steps.

These first three podcasts are hot off the press from Tricky Places, my next garden design book. Thus, the podcast show notes often feature links to videos  and  photo galleries, so you can ALSO see the images. 

So, be sure to subscribe and not miss an episode of The Garden Talk Salon!

What else is in store ?

. Timeless Landscape Design guides everything we do at Dovecote. We make sure you take home useful organizational principles for your own home environment.

. Lifelong Landscape Design: Environments for Health & Longevity concepts are peppered thru the series to keep the pace lively. Action steps are provided to transform your home environment into an oasis of health, healing and inspiration. 

 . Interviews with my favorite healthy garden gurus await you! They often introduce one of our courses.

. Free courses to dip in – or binge thru- as you wish! 

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When?  Well, now we’re year round with Podcasts! 

Timeless Landscape Design: The Garden Talk Salon 2018 

January

.Taming Tricky Places. Are You a Visual Learner? parts 1-3  (mp-FIX THE video SEGMENTS) 

.Hungering for Healthy, Easy Nutrition?-parts 1-2. An interview with author, Linda Frees, Hippocrates Health Institute (HHI)

.New Discoveries in Essential Oils. Interview with aromatherapy alchemist, Nancy Dimao, (HHI)

.Timeless Landscape Design & Art Elements to visually improve your property

 

February

Sprouting for Health : Course 

How do I harvest the energy of nature packed into tiny seeds if I have limited space, time and a dubious green thumb?

.Sprouting for Health: Why. What. How. (parts 1-2)

.Sprouting for Health: Soak.Incubate.Rinse. (parts 3-4)

.Sprouting for Health: Plant.Incubate.Rack. (parts 4-5)

.Sprouting for Health: Crop.Store.Share. (parts 7-8)

.Tricky Places Solutions (video SEGMENTS & .pdf/transcript 8 podcasts)

 

March

Design your home environment: Can my garden support my lifestyle? Course

.How can my driveway work better ?(Parts 1-2 The Approach and Arrival Sequence) 

.Can I make my home more charming? (Parts 3-4 The Hub)

.What can I do to make space to entertain outside? (Parts 5-6 The Perimeter)

.Where can I put my veggie garden, play areas and cutting garden? (Parts 7-8 The Hub)

.Tricky Places Solutions (mp-video LINKS from CCALD lectures)

 

April 

My Vegetable Garden: Can I easily grow vegetables to nourish my family? 

.Heirloom vegetables & non-GMO goodies for the kitchen garden (Parts 1-2)

.my pet worms, interview with Hugh Dargan about the joys of vermiculture (Parts 3-4)

.starting seeds (Parts 5-6)

.preparing beds & planting (Parts 7-8)

.Tricky Places Solutions ( LINKS from Dovecote & Permaculture Lectures)

 

May 

Gardens for Use & For Delight: What are great choices for hip & cool garden plants? 

. shrubs

. ground covers

. trees

.Interview with Jeff Zahner, Chattooga Gardens

.Tricky Places Solutions (LINKS from Dovecote, CCALD & Permaculture Lectures)

 

June 

Zippy Garden Design: How can I amp up my garden and drench my landscape with pizazz ?

.interview/how-to by Carl & Ethan Peverall, sculptors Contemporary Stonehenge

.interview with Ernest Koonce, Native azaleas and allies

.Tricky Places Solutions (LINKS from Dovecote, CCALD & Permaculture Lectures)

 

July

Gardens that Entertain: Can my garden host a party & provide flowers for my home?

. Interview with Chris Wakefield, Lighting Guru

.Plein Air art

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.Tricky Places Solutions (LINKS from Dovecote, CCALD & Permaculture Lectures)

 

August

Harvest gardens: How do I wrap my arms around produce and not go crazy? 

.blackberry wine

.specialty pickles

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.Tricky Places Solutions (LINKS from Dovecote, CCALD & Permaculture Lectures)

 

September 

Lifelong Landscape Design: Course

Can my garden provide health & longevity for my family? 

.the 8 parts to a garden of health and longevity course

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.Tricky Places Solutions (LINKS from Dovecote, CCALD & Permaculture Lectures)

 

October

Nesting with Nature: What can I do now to help my garden support my family’s health over the winter?

. bird care and perpetuation

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.Tricky Places Solutions (LINKS from Dovecote, CCALD & Permaculture Lectures).fall maintenance myths dispelled 

 

November

Holiday Gardens: What books and learning systems can I share with my family this winter?

.heritage gardens & inspired historical garden design

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.Tricky Places Solutions (LINKS from Dovecote, CCALD & Permaculture Lectures)

 

December

Gardens of delight: Where can I go to be super charged by gardens? 

. lets plan a trip…

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.Finis, one year down, hope you enjoyed it!  

.Tricky Places Solutions (LINKS from Dovecote, CCALD & Permaculture Lectures)

 

Let your home environment nourish you, so you can flourish to reach your highest potential.

Don’t miss an episode. Subscribe now to Timeless Landscape Design  HERE 

May we enjoy many a good garden adventure together!

 

Cheers, 

 

 

Mary Palmer Dargan, rla

Landscape Architect 

Healing The Earth One Garden at a Time..Its Time to Take Your Garden to School!