Podcast

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 4 Part Master Plan…Our Signature Landscape Design Move.

I’m all for reducing stress. A property that is at home in its 4 parts :  The Approach & Arrival Sequence, Hub, Perimeter, Linkages to Destinations is at peace. It functions seamlessly to meet your lifestyle. Timeless Landscape Design is both a process and a philosophy of how you want to live on your property. Properties that are are well-designed are classical and hold their value. 

Hugh and I wrote Timeless Landscape Design over a 40 year period…it is a seminal work by two professionals deeply entrenched in their body of work…enough so to have a philosophy. Enjoy this reading!

Topics in this episode:

. How to see the forest for the trees.

. The Approach & Arrival Sequence, Hub, Perimeter, Linkages to Destinations 

. Connect with the Web of Life 

VISUALS:

Please enjoy the gallery of gardens on our website! https://dargan.com

Cheers, 

Hugh & Mary Palmer Dargan, aslas

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What is Timeless Landscape Design : The Garden Talk Salon? 

AKA juicy nuggets of garden design brought to you by a think-tank of horticulturists, floral designers, sculptors and designers.

Welcome to The Garden Talk Salon! This is Mary Palmer Dargan and 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.

Enjoy Chirps from the Field, our version of show notes, which are loaded with models for visual learners…after all, the spoken word can do just so much!

Share with a friend.  May we enjoy many a good garden adventure together. 

Who?

Hugh and I are licensed landscape architects who migrated in 1997 to Cashiers in the western North Carolina mountains. Hugh Dargan & I purchased Dovecote in 2012 as our landscape architectural offices. For 2 decades, we’d created gardens at Highcote in High Hampton, now featured in our health care garden design primer, Lifelong Landscape Design and written the best-selling landscape design book, Timeless Landscape Design : The Four Part Master Plan.

LIttle Dovecote needed everything.  Forget it serving as our office HQ; we enjoyed this historic 1929 farmhouse so much that it became our permanent home.  The best part about Dovecote is its context: the quaint, small and historic domestic structure, unused barn, future sculpture meadow and woodland path to the lake. 

Where? 

Many of our podcasts are live events. 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. 

On Friday mornings, 10 am-noon, from Mothers Day to Labor Day, we hold The Garden Talk Salon. The brightest and most informed experts appear and share their stories about plants, design, cooking or nature.  

Find Dovecote 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.

Don’t miss the inaugural episodes of Taming Tricky Places: 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 videos with useful action steps. and Live Garden Talk Salons (GTS) videos reduced by magic into smaller bits.

So these first three podcasts are hot off the press from Tricky Places, my next garden design book.

What else is in store ?

. Timeless Landscape Design guides everything we do at Dovecote. You’ll take home useful action steps to improve and organize your own home environment.

. Lifelong Landscape Design: Environments for Health & Longevity peppers its concepts to keep the podcast 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. 

Be sure to subscribe and not miss an episode of The Garden Talk Salon!

Cheers, 

Hugh & Mary Palmer Dargan, aslas

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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

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Topics: Design your home grounds to please your eye, nourish your soul and make life easier!

Ars Longa, Vita Brevis : Art is forever, but life is short. Timeless Landscape Design shares how I think as a professional landscape architect and the techniques we do for our clients. In this podcast series, you can take your garden to school. 

We offer the touchstone of design by modelling idas gleaned from international travels to see what makes gardens- and home landscape – “tick”. What are the questions you have about it? Art principles and a structured design process guide our practice. You can use these too and reveal the potential of your house thru skillful editing.

I’m all for reducing stress. A property is “at peace” that is  at home in its 4 parts :  The Approach & Arrival Sequence, Hub, Perimeter, Linkages to Destinations. It functions seamlessly to meet your lifestyle. Timeless Landscape Design is both a process and a philosophy of how you want to live on your property. Properties that are are well-designed are classical – and hold their value. 

Hugh and I wrote Timeless Landscape Design over a 40 year period…it is a seminal work by two professionals deeply entrenched in their body of work…enough so to have a philosophy. Enjoy this reading!

Topics in episode 007

. Touchstone of Design

. Look at the property as a whole

. Reveal the potential of your home environment

VISUALS:

Our book, Timeless Landscape Design : The Four Part Master Plan is now in paperback for $25+ shipping/& $5 handling. It is available from Dargan Landscape Architects. Please call 828-743-0307 to order. 

Lifelong Landscape Design is likewise available thru our office and is $30 + ship/$5 handling. Please call 828-743-0307 to order. 

 

Cheers, 

Hugh & Mary Palmer Dargan, aslas

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What is Timeless Landscape Design : The Garden Talk Salon? 

AKA juicy nuggets of garden design brought to you by a think-tank of horticulturists, floral designers, sculptors and designers.

Welcome to The Garden Talk Salon! This is Mary Palmer Dargan and 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.

Enjoy Chirps from the Field, our version of show notes, which are loaded with models for visual learners…after all, the spoken word can do just so much!

Share with a friend.  May we enjoy many a good garden adventure together. 

Who?

Hugh and I are licensed landscape architects who migrated in 1997 to Cashiers in the western North Carolina mountains. Hugh Dargan & I purchased Dovecote in 2012 as our landscape architectural offices. For 2 decades, we’d created gardens at Highcote in High Hampton, now featured in our health care garden design primer, Lifelong Landscape Design and written the best-selling landscape design book, Timeless Landscape Design : The Four Part Master Plan.

LIttle Dovecote needed everything.  Forget it serving as our office HQ; we enjoyed this historic 1929 farmhouse so much that it became our permanent home.  The best part about Dovecote is its context: the quaint, small and historic domestic structure, unused barn, future sculpture meadow and woodland path to the lake. 

Where? 

Many of our podcasts are live events. 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. 

On Friday mornings, 10 am-noon, from Mothers Day to Labor Day, we hold The Garden Talk Salon. The brightest and most informed experts appear and share their stories about plants, design, cooking or nature.  

Find Dovecote 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.

Don’t miss the inaugural episodes of Taming Tricky Places: 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 videos with useful action steps. and Live Garden Talk Salons (GTS) videos reduced by magic into smaller bits.

So these first three podcasts are hot off the press from Tricky Places, my next garden design book.

What else is in store ?

. Timeless Landscape Design guides everything we do at Dovecote. You’ll take home useful action steps to improve and organize your own home environment.

. Lifelong Landscape Design: Environments for Health & Longevity peppers its concepts to keep the podcast 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. 

Be sure to subscribe and not miss an episode of The Garden Talk Salon!

Cheers, 

Hugh & Mary Palmer Dargan, aslas

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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

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Topic: Essential oils are powerful herbal remedies and essences. Nancy DiMao, Director of Hippocrates Health Institute’s Oasis Spa, is an expert on aromatic alchemy, the history of essential oils and their uses. 

Essential oils affect your body on the physical, emotional and energetic level. It is not aromatherapy. Interestingly, angels and saints were said to be preceded by a “most sweet scent” the viewer could not explain. The word, messiah, means ‘to annoint’. insense is a “per (thru)-fume (smoke). 

Nature has given us these plants with healing properties we scarcely understand. Science can distill essential oils in plants and rank them by frequency of vibration. It is very interesting that some of the most powerful herbs and flowers on earth with regard to anti-microbial properties, such as clove, record incredibly high frequency vibrations. They help you raise YOUR vibration to heal or ward off disease. For instance the floral essential oil of ROSE is famous for combating depression, and is also an aphrodisiac. Thus, it makes you feel good all over!

Topics in this episode:

.Spirituality and essential oils

.Uses of essential oils for healing

. My favorite essential oils

VISUALS:

My absolute favorite is clary sage!! 

https://hippocratesinst.org/oasis-therapy-center

 

Cheers, 

Hugh & Mary Palmer Dargan, aslas

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What is Timeless Landscape Design : The Garden Talk Salon? 

AKA juicy nuggets of garden design brought to you by a think-tank of horticulturists, floral designers, sculptors and designers.

Welcome to The Garden Talk Salon! This is Mary Palmer Dargan and 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.

Enjoy Chirps from the Field, our version of show notes, which are loaded with models for visual learners…after all, the spoken word can do just so much!

Share with a friend.  May we enjoy many a good garden adventure together. 

Who?

Hugh and I are licensed landscape architects who migrated in 1997 to Cashiers in the western North Carolina mountains. Hugh Dargan & I purchased Dovecote in 2012 as our landscape architectural offices. For 2 decades, we’d created gardens at Highcote in High Hampton, now featured in our health care garden design primer, Lifelong Landscape Design and written the best-selling landscape design book, Timeless Landscape Design : The Four Part Master Plan.

LIttle Dovecote needed everything.  Forget it serving as our office HQ; we enjoyed this historic 1929 farmhouse so much that it became our permanent home.  The best part about Dovecote is its context: the quaint, small and historic domestic structure, unused barn, future sculpture meadow and woodland path to the lake. 

Where? 

Many of our podcasts are live events. 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. 

On Friday mornings, 10 am-noon, from Mothers Day to Labor Day, we hold The Garden Talk Salon. The brightest and most informed experts appear and share their stories about plants, design, cooking or nature.  

Find Dovecote 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.

Don’t miss the inaugural episodes of Taming Tricky Places: 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 videos with useful action steps. and Live Garden Talk Salons (GTS) videos reduced by magic into smaller bits.

So these first three podcasts are hot off the press from Tricky Places, my next garden design book.

What else is in store ?

. Timeless Landscape Design guides everything we do at Dovecote. You’ll take home useful action steps to improve and organize your own home environment.

. Lifelong Landscape Design: Environments for Health & Longevity peppers its concepts to keep the podcast 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. 

Be sure to subscribe and not miss an episode of The Garden Talk Salon!

Cheers, 

Hugh & Mary Palmer Dargan, aslas

—————————————————–

 

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

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Topics: Sprouts, baby plants with untouched, concentrated nutrition, are easily grown and fun to eat! Linda Frees , author of Simply Sprouts, shares her tips about recipes & techniques.

Hello out there. I’ve been visiting Hippocrates Health Institute for 20 years for periodic health tune-ups. Its been an eye-opening experience to learn so much about health and wellness. I find lessons in how to balance stress in life’s tight rope, how to eat more mindfully and the value of life-force foods…sprout.

Being someone of a horticulturist, sprouts fit naturally into my life. I travel a lot, so helpful hints on how to maintain a fresh diet while on the road are appreciated. I met Linda Frees, director of The Hippocrates Health Institute’s Ambassador Program after returning for the 7-8 time. Her new book was exactly what I needed to share with friends on how to ‘Simply Sprout’. It rocks! I share her videos. Enjoy! 

This episode – Part 2

.Beautiful dishes to make

.Chocolates

.How it fits together: Soil-planted microgreens, soaked & refridgerated nuts, sprouted seeds 

VISUALS:

My favorite place! https://hippocratesinst.org

http://www.gotsprouts.com/Simply-Sprouts_p_97.html

 

Cheers, 

Hugh & Mary Palmer Dargan, aslas

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What is Timeless Landscape Design : The Garden Talk Salon? 

AKA juicy nuggets of garden design brought to you by a think-tank of horticulturists, floral designers, sculptors and designers.

Welcome to The Garden Talk Salon! This is Mary Palmer Dargan and 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.

Enjoy Chirps from the Field, our version of show notes, which are loaded with models for visual learners…after all, the spoken word can do just so much!

Share with a friend.  May we enjoy many a good garden adventure together. 

Who?

Hugh and I are licensed landscape architects who migrated in 1997 to Cashiers in the western North Carolina mountains. Hugh Dargan & I purchased Dovecote in 2012 as our landscape architectural offices. For 2 decades, we’d created gardens at Highcote in High Hampton, now featured in our health care garden design primer, Lifelong Landscape Design and written the best-selling landscape design book, Timeless Landscape Design : The Four Part Master Plan.

LIttle Dovecote needed everything.  Forget it serving as our office HQ; we enjoyed this historic 1929 farmhouse so much that it became our permanent home.  The best part about Dovecote is its context: the quaint, small and historic domestic structure, unused barn, future sculpture meadow and woodland path to the lake. 

Where? 

Many of our podcasts are live events. 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. 

On Friday mornings, 10 am-noon, from Mothers Day to Labor Day, we hold The Garden Talk Salon. The brightest and most informed experts appear and share their stories about plants, design, cooking or nature.  

Find Dovecote 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.

Don’t miss the inaugural episodes of Taming Tricky Places: 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 videos with useful action steps. and Live Garden Talk Salons (GTS) videos reduced by magic into smaller bits.

So these first three podcasts are hot off the press from Tricky Places, my next garden design book.

What else is in store ?

. Timeless Landscape Design guides everything we do at Dovecote. You’ll take home useful action steps to improve and organize your own home environment.

. Lifelong Landscape Design: Environments for Health & Longevity peppers its concepts to keep the podcast 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. 

Be sure to subscribe and not miss an episode of The Garden Talk Salon!

Cheers, 

Hugh & Mary Palmer Dargan, aslas

—————————————————–

 

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

______________________________________

Topics: Sprouts, baby plants with untouched, concentrated nutrition, are easily grown and fun to eat! Linda Frees , author of Simply Sprouts, shares her tips about recipes & techniques.

Hello out there. I’ve been visiting Hippocrates Health Institute for 20 years for periodic health tune-ups. Its been an eye-opening experience to learn so much about health and wellness. I find lessons in how to balance stress in life’s tight rope, how to eat more mindfully and the value of life-force foods…sprout.

Being someone of a horticulturist, sprouts fit naturally into my life. I travel a lot, so helpful hints on how to maintain a fresh diet while on the road are appreciated. I met Linda Frees, director of The Hippocrates Health Institute’s Ambassador Program after returning for the 7-8 time. Her new book was exactly what I needed to share with friends on how to ‘Simply Sprout’. It rocks! I share her videos. Enjoy! 

This episode

.Baby Plants

.The food desert & travel

.Enzymes

VISUALS:

My favorite place! https://hippocratesinst.org

http://www.gotsprouts.com/Simply-Sprouts_p_97.html

Cheers, 

Hugh & Mary Palmer Dargan, aslas

—————————————————–

What is Timeless Landscape Design : The Garden Talk Salon? 

AKA juicy nuggets of garden design brought to you by a think-tank of horticulturists, floral designers, sculptors and designers.

Welcome to The Garden Talk Salon! This is Mary Palmer Dargan and 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.

Enjoy Chirps from the Field, our version of show notes, which are loaded with models for visual learners…after all, the spoken word can do just so much!

Share with a friend.  May we enjoy many a good garden adventure together. 

Who?

Hugh and I are licensed landscape architects who migrated in 1997 to Cashiers in the western North Carolina mountains. Hugh Dargan & I purchased Dovecote in 2012 as our landscape architectural offices. For 2 decades, we’d created gardens at Highcote in High Hampton, now featured in our health care garden design primer, Lifelong Landscape Design and written the best-selling landscape design book, Timeless Landscape Design : The Four Part Master Plan.

LIttle Dovecote needed everything.  Forget it serving as our office HQ; we enjoyed this historic 1929 farmhouse so much that it became our permanent home.  The best part about Dovecote is its context: the quaint, small and historic domestic structure, unused barn, future sculpture meadow and woodland path to the lake. 

Where? 

Many of our podcasts are live events. 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. 

On Friday mornings, 10 am-noon, from Mothers Day to Labor Day, we hold The Garden Talk Salon. The brightest and most informed experts appear and share their stories about plants, design, cooking or nature.  

Find Dovecote 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.

Don’t miss the inaugural episodes of Taming Tricky Places: 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 videos with useful action steps. and Live Garden Talk Salons (GTS) videos reduced by magic into smaller bits.

So these first three podcasts are hot off the press from Tricky Places, my next garden design book.

What else is in store ?

. Timeless Landscape Design guides everything we do at Dovecote. You’ll take home useful action steps to improve and organize your own home environment.

. Lifelong Landscape Design: Environments for Health & Longevity peppers its concepts to keep the podcast 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. 

Be sure to subscribe and not miss an episode of The Garden Talk Salon!

Cheers, 

Hugh & Mary Palmer Dargan, aslas

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