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The Landscape Your Life Winter Sale Ends Tonight!

Are you still searching for the perfect holiday gift for your garden-loving family or friend? If so, you’ve still got some time to take advantage of Landscape Your Life’s first winter sale! Santa’s Helper, Mary Palmer, has packed the garden shopping cart with a few bundles to make your holiday shopping a breeze. Here’s a look at our special gift packages available through midnight tonight!

Our Holiday Book Bundle includes Timeless Landscape Design, Lifelong Landscape Design and The Early English Kitchen Garden, all autographed by Mary Palmer, beautifully wrapped and ready to go! These books are perfect for those in need of a good read over the winter as they dream and make plans for their spring gardens.

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landscape design holiday book bundle

landscape design holiday book bundle

Also featured in our winter sale is our home training study, SPROUT in PLACE. This legendary course begins in January and will help you achieve the garden of your dreams with a virtual blueprint system and 90 days of support included! This system has helped hundreds of homeowners transform their landscapes into beautiful and functional spaces they thought were impossible to create.

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Our holiday sale ends tonight at midnight! Act now to take advantage of this special holiday offer.

Also, don’t forget about Mary Palmer’s free gift for you this holiday season – a complimentary training video and worksheet that will help perk up your indoor environment with the crisp white color and refreshing scent of beautiful Narcissus.

And for additional free worksheets and videos covering sustainable landscape design topics that will help you improve your garden into a space created for health, longevity and fun, be sure to register your email address with us at www.landscapeyourlife.com. We’ll send these freebies right to your inbox, so keep an eye out for the current worksheet!

From the Dargan Landscape Architects family to yours, Happy Holidays!

Fill Your Homes with Paperwhite Narcissus for Scent & Holiday Sensation!

During the holiday season, our homes naturally take on a more cheerful look with all of the beautiful decorations that adorn our interior landscapes. We love incorporating a few plants for an extra burst of fragrance that also generate a little extra oomph to our holiday décor. One of our favorites here at Dargan Landscape Architects is the Paperwhite Narcissus because they offer a spectacular look and scent for several weeks!

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Paperwhites are a type of daffodil that is a perennial plant native to the Mediterranean. This fragrant plant features white flowers that come in clusters. What we love best about Paperwhites is that the bulbs can easily be found at your local nursery and are relatively inexpensive, easy to plant and come into bloom within three to four weeks of planting. Because of this, Paperwhites are easy to “force” into a planter of your choice to be used as holiday décor or as a gift! They’re perfect for your gardening friends and family, or to give as a thoughtful hostess gift!

And speaking of holiday gifts, our own Mary Palmer has a special gift just for you! She has created an informative video and whitepaper filled with all the information you need to know about planting Paperwhites in the winter to provide scent and sensation in your home throughout the colder months – complete with planting instructions! Mary Palmer has also included an example of Paperwhites grown by her friend, master horticulturist Virginia Almand, that are in full bloom and ready to display or to give as a gift.

To take advantage of this special gift, visit our website today to download the whitepaper! You can also find Mary Palmer’s instructional video on YouTube!

P.S. – Don’t forget about our first winter sale! The shop closes at midnight on December 18. Check out our special holiday gifts for the gardeners in your life.

P.P.S. – If you would like the opportunity to discuss your garden or landscape design needs with Mary Palmer, send her an email at [email protected]. Our legendary SPROUT in PLACE workshop will begin in January!

Join Mary Palmer Dargan on January 15 at Bellingrath Gardens

We’re pleased to share that Mary Palmer will be lecturing at Bellingrath Home and Gardens on January 15, 2014. We invite you to join us for this “Super Wednesday” program – a part of Bellingrath Gardens and Home’s Winter Wednesdays series – to learn how to get your garden ready for spring!

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Mary Palmer will be lecturing at the beautiful Bellingrath Gardens and Home on January 15.
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During the lecture, Mary Palmer will share easy problem-solving and landscape design tips that will help you solve your most pesky landscape and garden issues during both morning and afternoon sessions. Participants are encouraged to bring along a picture or drawing of their landscape issues, so Mary Palmer can provide suggestions and advice.

Lunch will be included with the cost of the event, in addition to these informative sessions. Mary Palmer will also be selling and autographing copies of “Lifelong Landscape Design: Environments for Health and Longevity.”

We look forward to a great session on January 15, and we hope you’ll be able to join us from 10:30 to 2 pm. Invite a friend to come along and learn with you, and be sure to stick around and explore all the gorgeous gardens among Bellingrath’s 65-acres of blooms. Reservations are required for this event, so call 251-973-2217 extension 110 to save your spot. The reservation fee is $10 for Bellingrath members and $20 for non-members.

For more information on Dargan Landscape Architects’ events and appearances, or if you’re interested in learning more about our services, please visit our website. We’d love to meet with you – virtually or in person – to discuss your landscape’s needs and how we can help you create a master plan or tune-up to transform your space into an energized, nourishing and stress-free living space.

Also, don’t forget about our first holiday sale, happening now through December 18! Check out our special offerings that make perfect gifts for the gardener on your list.

The Landscape Your Life Winter Sale is Here!

We’re pleased to announce the very first Landscape Your Life holiday sale, the “Holiday Gardeners Need Love in the Winter, too!” sale. Starting today and continuing for the next week, we invite you to participate in this special sale.

We’ve been listening to our community of landscape design enthusiasts and have created this sale to help address the questions and topics you want answered. We also want to help make holiday shopping a breeze for those tough nuts to crack on your shopping list! Santa’s Helper (aka Mary Palmer) has packed the garden shopping cart with goodies for you to look through, so your garden and landscape design dreams don’t mold and mildew this winter!

Our first featured package is the Holiday Book Bundle. This bundle features three classic landscape design books – Timeless Landscape Design, Lifelong Landscape Design, and The Early English Kitchen Garden. Each book is filled with great information and inspiration, including Mary Palmer’s secret tips for garden-designing homeowners and landscape designers, as well as tons of gorgeous photos. In addition to garden enthusiasts, this makes a great gift for those who enjoy armchair reading. To make this bundle even sweeter, each book is autographed by Mary Palmer and beautifully wrapped!

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Holiday Book Bundle

Our second special package features SPROUT in PLACE: PlaceMakers™ Virtual Blueprint System. Through the very same system Mary Palmer uses to transform hundreds of ordinary landscapes into slivers of paradise, you’ll learn that it’s possible to achieve a beautiful and functional property. This is the perfect gift for anyone looking to maximize their investment and improve their property, as well as landscape designers interested in putting themselves “over the top as an expert in your field.”

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SPROUT in PLACE: PlaceMakers™ Virtual Blueprint System

Head over to our website today for more information on our first holiday sale. Holiday gardeners need love in the winter too, and this is the perfect way to show them some love this holiday season!

Happy holidays from Dargan Landscape Architects!

The Evergreen Cometh

With the holiday season upon us, evergreens are everywhere. I recently asked my Facebook friends to share with me their favorite evergreens for winter interest – short, round, tall, thin, slightly weepy, or perhaps one with slightly colored foliage. I’m curious to hear from my blog readers too. Which evergreen is your favorite?

plant_live_trees_chattooga_gardensRecently, I sauntered over to our friendly neighborhood, family-run garden center, Chattooga Gardens. While marvelling at the show-stopping, holiday boxwood wreaths created by Jodie Zahner, I saw Mr. Jeff Z sorting out a delivery of gorgeous, fresh, mint- condition evergreen trees.

Ahhh, my mouth watered watching them slide down the big box truck pulled by a chain attached to a bobcat. Out popped blue ones, green ones, grey ones and yellow ones.

With visions of sugar plums dancing in my head (shaped like conifers, of course), I immediately thought about the designs I could create with these beautiful trees.

Dovecote, our home in the mountains, needs an infusion of winter glamour! Does yours? If so, a carefully selected group of evergreens are the perfect choice.

Evergreens can be grand, soaring focal points (like deodora cedars), accents to your home composition (Nellie R. Stevens holly is a great anchor) or grouped (boxwoods come to mind) as a node. These bullet-proof, southern mainstays populate the region. But, these evergreens pale in comparison to what is available in zone 5… ahhhhh.

From the Korean Silverlock Spruce (pictured below) to Nordman Spruce, and Pyramidal Silver Fir to Blue Spruce, the list goes on and on! Austrian Pine, Weeping Norway Spruce, White Fir, Alaskan Blue Cedar, Boxwoods, Oriental Golden Spruce, Colorado fastigiata Spruce, Horstmann’s Silbe, Oriental Green Knight and Blue Korean Silveray, just to name a few! Each one offers its own unique beauty, color and texture to its environment.

I take photos of tags, since I really don’t know all these beautiful plants. (My cell phone is my notebook these days!)

This holiday season, I encourage you to treat yourself to a burst of glamour and invest in evergreens with runway style… and support your local, family-run nursery in the process.

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I know everyone is already busy with various aspects of the holiday season, so I want to help you out and save some of your precious time with my December ezine. Let’s continue to warm up your holiday season with evergreen gifts. Register your email address with us to receive my ezine right in your inbox!

And now, I wanted to share news from Mrs. Santa…

Be on the lookout Tuesday for the invitation to my “Green Thumbs Don’t Mold in the Winter” winter sale.  

Just 2 indispensable things… watch for the announcement next week!

Thank you for being my community of garden designing friends.

It’s heartwarming and an honor to be in your circle.

Happy Holidays from the Dargans!