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June 19, Miniature “Fairy Gardens” Workshop
Mary Palmer Dargan, RLA: The Magic of Miniature Gardens
What is a Miniature Garden? Learn what materials to use in a fool-proof mini-garden. Solve the mystery of the container, paving and plant materials, types of houses, pets, site accessories and maintenance techniques. Bring parents or the child in you! Create your own miniature garden.
For more information and to register, see https://dargan.com/dovecote-events/
Who hasn’t envisioned bringing the romance of a sidewalk cafe in Paris to their own backyard? All you need is a bistro table, chairs and a courtyard, terrace or side garden to recreate the scene. Add a cup of coffee, springtime breezes and blooming flowers, and you have the makings of the perfect little retreat within your landscape.
We like placing little retreats such as these in our landscape design projects because they expand our client’s outdoor living spaces and offer a perch for admiring the yard and perhaps enjoying a quick breakfast or drinks with friends. Bistro sets are great for this purpose because they are smaller, making them easy to incorporate into an otherwise empty corner, creating a cozy, intimate spot for conversations.
Take a look at a few of the ways we have incorporated bistro sets into past projects:
A large courtyard is broken up into smaller seating areas, including bistro tables and chairs to suit any occasion, from a quick coffee break to happy hour with friends. The simplicity of the furniture keeps the focus on the surrounding landscape and highlights the beautiful paver patio underfoot.
What could have been a forgotten outdoor space is now a destination in the landscape thanks to the seating area created in this side garden using a chaise lounge and a bistro table and chairs. The pathway leading to the seating area emphasizes the seating arrangement, as does the paver patio that serves as a foundation. What’s more, the table is right outside an entrance into the home, giving owners easy access to the lush hideaway.
If you don’t have a courtyard on your property, you can still incorporate a bistro-style setting into a smaller space. Notice that this small terrace, measuring six feet by six feet, is all that’s needed for creating a cozy outdoor dining area for two. The terrace is floored with crab orchard stone in pink hues and a black wrought iron fence is complemented by a black wrought iron bistro set topped with pink cushions, offering a stunning seating for two.
A gorgeous brick patio and side garden are the perfect location in this cozy courtyard for a bistro table and chairs in high-contrast white. The seating provides a place for visitors to enjoy the greenery, as well as an afternoon tea and chat.
Are you ready to update your landscape with a beautiful courtyard, terrace or patio? Contact Dargan Landscape Architects to schedule a consultation. We would love to help you achieve the outdoor environment you’ve always wanted. We can help you find the look that best suits your property, right down to the furniture! For many years we’ve been designing custom seating elements. These custom solutions ensure you get the perfect piece, created with your space, style and other considerations in mind. In addition, our Talbot and Walden line of outdoor furniture is available from Kenneth Lynch & Sons in Connecticut.
A love letter to my tribe…
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
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.
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!
Mary Palmer Dargan, ASLA
Author, Licensed Landscape Architect
