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003 Taming Tricky Places. Want to Unleash Your Spirit of Place? Part 3

January 6, 2018

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: From Nothing to Something. Charleston Courtyard to Mountain Chic. ..Mind.Body.Spirit… Web of Life.

Seeing the potential in a property is part client goals, part professional training and part divine inspiration, especially when the earth talks to you!

Watching a humble unformed raw piece of ground slowly become a living breathing garden never ceases to put me in awe. Its the spirit of place…that indelible peace and special character that says…I am unforgettable. The British recognized it when they saw gardens on The Grand Tour in Italy and France in the 18th century.

You too can transform your home environment with some action steps offered by the models from 55 Church Street in Charleston and a mountain home in Wade Hampton, in Cashiers NC. Both were once serious construction sites devoid of charm.

The mind, body and spirit of a property are discussed as well as understanding the web of life.

Enjoy part 3 of our introductory series on Tricky Places!

This inaugural series ( part 3 of 3) includes a look at :

.Creating a Sense of Place

.The Interrelated Mind, Body and Spirit of a piece of land

. The fascinating and integral Web of Life

VISUALS:

Tricky Places video for you for parts 1-3 . 

Just fast forward to the time stamp on the audio or slide to the left to start at the beginning!

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!

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002. Taming Your Tricky Place : Are You a Visual Learner? Part 2

January 6, 2018

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: Taming Raw Materials: Dovecote, Highcote & the Dargans

Scattered around our lives are home environments we transformed. The new owners didn’t change them. I guess their timeless qualities of balance, proportion and perfect material combinations and shapes perpetually fit the bill!

This podcast offers a behind the scenes look at how we made our two most recent homes environments come alive: Dovecote, a charming farmhouse, and Highcote, a large estate with many gardens. The visual plus is that there is a video that complements this podcast, so you can gain take aways to model right away. 

This inaugural series ( part 2 of 3) includes a look at :

.Taming Dovecote- a charming farmhouse with LOTs of problems.

.Creating Highcote’s Sense of Place-over 17 years we worked some pretty serious magic!

. The Dargans are introduced.

VISUALS:

Tricky Places video for you for parts 1-3 . 

Just fast forward to the time stamp on the audio or slide the bar to the left to start at the beginning!

Cheers, Hugh & Mary Palmer Dargan


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!

Filed Under: Podcast, Uncategorized

001 Tame Your Tricky Place: Are You a Visual Learner? Part 1 + video link

January 6, 2018

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 tone for you in the spoken words of Timeless Landscape Design: The Garden Talk Salon. I’ll try to add photo galleries, an instructional .pdf or a video. With these resources, you can look, learn and easily model ideas.

There is a high value in creating a home utopia. A sustainble landscape that supports your lifestyle and nurtures mother nature. To rest lightly on the land and hold hands with nature is a high calling for an enlightened homeowner. Be proud of your efforts! Persevere to create a clean home environment where you can flourish on all levels of life.

Hugh and I encounter many Tricky Places as our work enters its 45th year in 2018. We’ve soothed entanglements between man and nature in high mountain ridges to low coastal edges. 

This inaugural episode includes a look at :

. The BIG WHY 

. Your Wish List. 

. Natural Disasters rear their ugly heads with solutions shared to reestablish the spirit of place. Useful for old or new landscapes struggling to become nurturing places, these time-honored recipes certainly hold inspiration for your own garden design improvement projects.

VISUALS:

Tricky Places video for you for parts 1-3 . 

Just fast forward to the time stamp on the audio or slide the bar left to start at the beginning !

Cheers, Hugh & Mary Palmer Dargan

—————————————————–

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!

Filed Under: Podcast, Uncategorized

Timeless Landscape Design is going live: Sneak Podcast Preview!

January 2, 2018

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

.

.

.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

.

.

.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

.

.

.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

.

.

.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

.

.

.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…

.

.

.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!

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