Create Nourishing Flourishing Home Utopias
My “new” favorite gate, seen in Colonial Williamsburg.
Does your garden need a proper entry gate? … see my chapter in Timeless Landscape design about linkages and pathways for more ideas and inspiration.
I spotted this gate in the historic corridor of Colonial Williamsburg. It closes with a cannon ball and chain.
The 2015 Garden Talk Salon season’s kickoff lectures at Dargan’s Dovecote Porch & Gardens will feature a workshop on how to start cut flowers from seeds.
The times and dates have not been set yet.
Join Mary Palmer to create plant plugs to guarentee success, learn how to layout beds, use organic amendments, grow and plant baby flowers. The workshop will be complimented by seed choices especially chosen for use as cut flowers for your home and certain to bring pollinators to your home garden!
Seed kits and growing media will be available at Dargan’s Dovecote Porch and Gardens.
Our smocks, created by Denise Dickens of Outside DesignWorks exclusively for Dargan’s Dovecote Porch and Gardens, were on display this week at The Garden Symposium at Williamsburg, VA. The event was sponsored by The Garden Club of Virginia.
Introducing the new garden smock and garden vest from Outside Designworks. Some details about our new item:
We’ll also be showing off The Garden Vest, at a cost of $58.00 plus shipping. Some features:
Mary Palmer Dargan. Licensed in landscape architecture, Dargan began her love affair with the environment as a botanist, and now specializes in creating sustainable home environments.Her website — dargan.com — features many how-to videos for novice horticulturists, budding garden designers and homeowners and master landscape designers.
“Timeless landscape design is more than selecting heritage trees and shrubs,” she says.“It is about coaxing the very best from your property so that you express its genius loci, or spirit of place. Did you know that your property has a genetic code just waiting to be broken? Each property is as unique as a fingerprint, but has a universal language.Perplexed about how to knit the dysfunctional parts of your property together? Learn the secrets of The 4 Part Master Plan, and see the forest for the trees.“Do you want to maximize your home environment’s value as you age in place, or hold its value when you move on? Lifelong landscape design has eight steps to creating the perfectly timeless oasis.”
Here’s Mary Palmer, at a fashion show featured at the recent Garden Symposium in Virginia.
Mary Palmer Dargan ( left center in blue) pictured with Executive DIrector of The Garden Club of Virginia Lynn McCashin ( right center in red) and fashion designer Lizzi London (center in black), and whose runway collection at the Garden Symposium debuted collections inspired by the timeless gardener, Audrey Hepburn
