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At Last, a Workshop for RRR-ing You & Your Garden

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Coming to Atlanta on September 19-21, 2013 : “Rested, Refreshed, Restored: You & Your Garden”, is a unique health and longevity garden design workshop. You CAN create a garden oasis that delivers genuine benefits to improve your well-being.  Discover the secret components of a landscape design that you love and relieve your stress instead of adding to it.

The Atlanta History Center is host site for the third 2013 Landscape Your Life  3-day garden design workshop intensive. Study gardens in Buckhead to see what makes them “tick”, plug into innovative  workshops designed to breakthrough your garden “blockages”, peruse the Cherokee Garden Library’s southern garden history and horticultural books collections, plus discover a structured process to program your landscape to be the best it can with therapeutic  lifelong landscape principles.

Expand your knowledge with guest speakers : plant hunter Ozzie Johnson, environmental horticulturist Matt Richards, garden historian Staci Catron and lighting guru Chris Wakefield. Enjoy new friends at our PlaceMakers Gala, gourmet luncheons and farm-to-table private dining at Seasons 52.

“Rested, Refreshed, Restored: You & Your Garden” completes three unique landscape design intensives, Charleston Spring: Courtyard Gardens, Cashiers Summer Sizzle: Garden Design, and now, Atlanta Fall: Gardens for Health & Longevity, which celebrate Dargan Landscape Architects’ 40th anniversary.

Whether you are an elder downsizing, a young balcony gardener or a growing family, homeowners at any stage of life benefit from lifelong landscape design techniques.

Come take your garden to school with award-winning landscape architects and founders of The American Certificate of Landscape Design, Hugh and Mary Palmer Dargan, aslas.

For more information contact : http://www.LandscapeYourLife.com/atlanta2013/

Or call 404-231-3889

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

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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

The Garden Porch at Dovecote

Our new cottage in Cashiers NC has a specialty retail center called ” The Garden Porch at Dovecote”. Moss and bark planters with vine accents, plant pies and planters made to order.

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These are a few of my favorite things…

 

Bark sided planters inset with moss and vine.

Moon bunnies in drizzled tones of rust and celadon.

Large, lapping tanks of still water with a small bubble to cool your jets.

Pots that last a lifetime and look like chic tree trunks in drizzled rust, blue or green.

Plant Pies with little holes for your favorite homegrown plants.

By the way, anything can be expeditiously made to order (like mossed window boxes and customized large planters).

 

We like homes and gardens.

Did I mention that we are licensed landscape architects enjoying our 40th year in business in 2013? Dargan Landscape Architects specialize in master plans for chic residences all over the country, but we call Cashiers and Atlanta our summer and winter homes.

 

The Garden Porch is an oasis with a picket fence and a little garden shop on the porch.

Please drop in. Hugh and I would love to see you.

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828-743-0307

35 Flash Point Road, right next to Cornucopia off 107s headed…south from the crossroads.

Help Us Design Dovecote’s New Garden!

The participants in our Summer Sizzle. Summer Pop! 3 day Garden Design event June 16-19 will design our new garden with us. I think Hugh and I might need some garden psychoanalysis…or at least a drink in the shade!

The front garden was installed last week in less than 2 days; so now is the time to tackle the rear.

If you’ve been watching this project unfold, now comes the juicy part.

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Sound intriguing? Here is a sneak preview…

We have a blank canvas with 19 existing boxwoods, wooden fencing and a hedge backdrop 18’ tall. A BLANK CANVAS.

We’ll take you by the hand and show you how to analyze the space to get maximum benefit… beauty and brains.

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Ever wonder how to start to design your own garden?

Help us solve pesky questions like where to hide the compost center consisting of the comfrey tea maker, the tumbler plus 4 leaf decomposers. Then there is the potting shed, the water garden, several pieces of statuary and kitchen garden. How are we going to manage water harvesting? Did I mention the 8 tile pictures of birds left over from a Southern Accents show house?

Interested? Sign up now for one of the few remaining spaces!

The pre-event design studio June 15 still has a few spaces left and will help you solve those pesky problems on your property. Available only to course participants.

So sign up now to save your seat!