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Hugh and Mary Palmer Dargan to Speak at the Spring Garden Festival in Murrells Inlet on March 22

Atlanta-Charleston landscape architect
Mary Palmer Dargan, ASLA, APLD

Spring is going to be a busy season of speaking events for Dargan Landscape Architects’ Hugh and Mary Palmer Dargan! This Saturday, March 22, they will kick things off at the Spring Garden Festival at Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.

If you’re looking for expert gardening advice, this is the place to find it! Hugh and Mary Palmer will give a lecture in Brookgreen Gardens’ Lowcountry Center, Learning Lab 1, beginning at 11:15 am. During their lecture titled “Lifelong Landscape Design: Gardens for Health and Longevity,” Hugh and Mary Palmer will discuss how to design a lifelong landscape that will allow you to produce food, enjoy healthy activity and reduce stress! A book signing will also be included in the event, so bring your copies of Timeless Landscape Design and Lifelong Landscape Design with you.

South Carolina landscape architect
Hugh Dargan, RLA, ASLA

Other highlights of the Spring Garden Festival include:

  • Lectures on topics ranging from photographing spring flowers and increasing efficiency and decreasing garden maintenance to best garden practices for all Southeastern gardens, etc.
  • A photography workshop in the Gardens.
  • Demonstrations on beekeeping; techniques for installing, cleaning and maintaining water features in your garden; easy, natural ways to decrease the use of harmful chemicals in our environment; a pruning workshop and more.
  • A silent auction featuring unique container designs from Brookgreen’s horticultural staff.

We hope you’ll make plans to join Hugh and Mary Palmer for the exciting Spring Garden Festival at Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet this Saturday. The festival is free with garden admission. Visit the Spring Garden Festival site for more information and a schedule of events, and keep an eye on Coastal Observer for an upcoming interview. We look forward to seeing you Saturday!

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The Spring Garden Festival at Brookgreen Gardens is a “must” for anyone in need of expert gardening and landscape design advice.
Source: Facebook.com/BrookgreenGardens

If you can’t make it out this weekend, below is a list of our upcoming events. Mark your calendars now – we’ll share more information on these events in the near future!

  • Memphis to Milano Flower Show, Dixon Gardens, Memphis, TN; April 4-6
  • Nashville, TN Book signing; April 5 and 7 – Location TBA
  • Little Garden Club of Birmingham, AL, Ribbons of Green Zone VIII Meeting and Flower Show (Private Club Function); April 7-9
  • Book signing at the Historic Charleston Foundation, Charleston, SC; April 11 – Time TBA
  • Charleston Garden Club Tours of Homes & Gardens – Hugh and Mary Palmer will hold book signings and several of their gardens will be featured on the tour; April 11 and 12
  • Southeastern Flower Show “Showing & Growing” in Atlanta, GA, April 25-27 – Hugh and Mary Palmer will have a display, sign books and hold a drawing.

Plus more events to come through May, June and July! We’ve also got events on the calendar for fall. Stay tuned for more information!

Hugh and Mary Palmer Dargan to Speak at the Quitman Camellia and Garden Symposium

We’re less than two weeks away from an exciting new horticulture event taking place in Quitman, Georgia. Wednesday and Thursday – February 12 and 13, 2014 – will be our first ever Camellia and Garden Symposium honoring Betty Sheffield. The event, co-sponsored by Destination Brooks and the Georgia Department of Economic Development, will feature nationally-noted speakers, including Hugh and Mary Palmer Dargan, while also offering attendees the opportunity to learn about plants and gardening in the South.

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Betty Sheffield Camellia
Source: American Camellia Society

Betty Sheffield was an inspiration to many as she worked tirelessly to beautify her hometown of Quitman while simultaneously helping countless others to beautify their own properties with dynamic landscape designs teeming with trees, shrubs and camellias. Sheffield also became quite renowned for her work with camellias, giving us such stunning varieties as “The Betty Sheffield” and the “Betty Sheffield Supreme” among many others.

To celebrate Sheffield and her passion for plants, the symposium will include tours of her historic garden as well as other famous landscapes. Attendees will also learn all about Sheffield’s namesake flowering plants with segments like “The Camellias in Art” and “Camellias in Floral Design.”

The itinerary for the two-day event is packed full with fascinating presentations and hands-on activities. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about specific plants and techniques for achieving beautiful and thriving gardens and landscapes in the South. Highlights of the event will also come out of impressive roster of key-note speakers including Hugh and Mary Palmer Dargan, who will give a lecture entitled “Timeless Camellias: Timeless Landscape Design.” Other impressive designers, landscape architects and garden experts will share their expertise at the symposium as well. Finally, there will also be a garden marketplace where attendees can find the latest garden tools and accessories as well as unique plants to put their knew gardening

Click here to see the agenda and find other event details such as registration and lodging options. Let the Dargan Landscape Architects blog be your resource for landscape design inspiration and info on gardening events throughout the South. Stay tuned or contact us to learn more about how Hugh and Mary Palmer’s team can transform your property into a work of art that heals the earth and lets nature speak.

Join Mary Palmer Dargan in LA this Weekend for Live Long and Landscape: Gardening for Health and Happiness

landscape architectIt’s going to be an exciting weekend at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden. Mary Palmer Dargan will be the opening speaker for Live Long and Landscape: Gardening for Health and Happiness on Saturday, October 19th. The day’s seminar will discuss how gardening and healthy living are a match made in heaven.

For the early birds, the day will begin with a refreshing session of Yoga in the Garden, led by Candyce Columbus, who leads Yoga in the Garden classes at the Arboretum on Tuesday mornings, Thursday evenings and quarterly sessions on Saturdays. After that, we’ll dive into discussions on how your health can benefit from gardening.

Mary Palmer will share how to “Turbocharge Your Landscape for Health and Longevity” by discussing eight key points to a healthy and inspired landscape based from her new book, “Lifelong Landscape Design.” In the discussion, she’ll cover topics such as horticultural therapies, as well as sustainable landscape design and how integrating sustainable practices into your daily life is just as essential as many of our other daily tasks that promote overall health and well-being.

landscape design book by Mary Palmer Dargan

The event will also feature lectures on ideal fruits and vegetables to grow in California gardens, landscape feng shui, how to use gardening as a way to workout and herb gardening. Guided garden walks will also take place, as well as book signings and lunch.

We look forward to seeing everyone at the beautiful Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden and discussing how gardening and healthy living go hand-in-hand this weekend. For more information on the event or to register to attend, visit the event website or call 415-441-4300.

Is your garden stressing you out?

Do you want your garden to be an oasis and don’t know how to begin?

Rested, Refreshed, Restored : Your & Your Garden

Discover the secret components that you love and relieve your stress instead of adding to it.

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You always hear that sitting in your garden is supposed to relieve stress, but what if
it doesn’t bring you peace?  How do you get it to look and act right?
It is important to me to share my secret recipes to bring peace into your life through your serene and beautiful landscape.

Please join me on 2 complimentary training calls designed to transform your garden.

You will leave with a strong foundation about:

  • How to create a home environment perfect for you to reduce stress and increase longevity
  • How to clarify the best areas to create gardens that feel really good.
  • How to successfully use these lifelong landscape design techniques at any stage  of life...whether you are installing your first balcony garden, developing a landscape suited to a growing family, or are an elder who is downsizing and simplifying.

YES! Click here for the details!

You are in the right place if:

  • You want to come home after a hard day at work and decompress, outside.
  • You have spots on your property that never seem to work or gardens that lack zip!
  • You love the idea of having friends over for a fun, casual meal, but don’t have a convenient place outside to entertain
  • You want an outdoor room or terrace that functions like a room in your house
  • Are you tired of coming home to get peace, but it gets worse because outside doesn’t look right.

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I know after a hard day or week, I love to be outside and decompress in nature…Just to simply feel human again, but I need a place to sit quietly… just to lose myself in the sound of my small fountain.

Would you like to create your own private courtyard, outdoor room or garden retreat, but just don’t know where to begin?

Together we can solve those problems and more.

What is “Shinrin-yoku”? Did you know that health care practioners have been studying the scientific benefits being outdoors in a garden, especially in  a forest?

 


Mary Palmer Dargan
Landscape Your Life™
Dargan.com

PS: I call it….RRR 4U+UrGdn!

Coming Soon…Create a Garden of Health & Longevity Workshop

Fall into your garden’s arms this September 19-21, 2013 and unleash its nourishing potential, so you can flourish in today’s stress-filled environment.

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Building on the overwhelming success of our inaugural Cashiers and Charleston garden design workshops, this event is structured around the 8 key ingredients for a lifelong landscape design.

Did you know there are archetypal landscape patterns that will immediately transform your property into a cohesive oasis of harmony?

You can immediately use these techniques to create a series of outdoor rooms customized to your lifestyle, no matter if you are a young professional, a growing family or an elder downsizing.

In Charleston this spring, we studied how to design classical outdoor rooms.

In Cashiers this summer, we experienced how to design terraces with topography to create gardens that defy imagination. see Radell Smith’s review!  http://www.examiner.com/article/buckhead-licensed-landscape-architects-take-workshop-to-cashiers-fans-follow?cid=taboola_inbound

In Atlanta this fall, learn how to harness the potential within your property for health and longevity in 8 easy steps.

The fall garden design workshop includes a structured lecture sequence on the principles of lifelong landscape design, field trips to private gardens, the PlaceMakers Gala, gourmet dining at a farm-to-table restaurant and guest lecturers.

It will be held on September 19-21,2013 at The Atlanta History Center’s McElreath Hall and the Cherokee Garden Library in beautiful Buckhead.  Early bird Housing at The Grand Hyatt Buckhead ($139) with easy Marta access to the airport.

Stay tuned for more! If you want to save a seat ahead of the event contact: [email protected]

I love doing these events and learn as much from you as you do from me.

Each garden is as unique as a fingerprint. Together we can heal ourselves, and our world, one garden at a time.

Cheers!

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Mary Palmer Dargan, ASLA
Author, Licensed Landscape Architect