Lectures to garden clubs are some of my favorite venues! Today, it is the Carolina Foothills GC, a member of Garden Club of America located in Greenville, SC. I love this group. It made the Reedy River project come together thru their active community work and it was awarded many prizes including best by America Society of Landscape Architects. I'm both a GCA member and in ASLA, so very proud of them. We'll be talking about Lifelong Landscape Design tomorrow, how does it work , what do you do to plan WAYYYY ahead for your lifelong home. You are probably already in it if you are aged 61. Many valuable tips from organization of parts, access, easy gardening, plants and healing garden design.

Dargan Book Drawing 6pm Sat, Feb 6 at SE Flower Show. Come Register today!!!

Win a "Timeless" treasure!

One of our books will be given away at 6pm on Saturday at the Se Flower Show at the Cobb Galleria! We'll also give 6 runners-up their pick of the litter of Pink Pearl hyacinths, Scilla, Flair tulips and many, many more.

Hugh does a book signing at Eagle Eye Bookstore at noon.

The show features beautiful flowering plants, large landscape exhibits, educational and garden design features and a Marketplace. Come see us!

Dargan landscape exhibit features many blooms and garden atmosphere

Dargan Landscape Architects exhibit features hyacinths and flair tulips in full glory. The book drawing on Saturday promises a "Timeless" treasure...more to come as the flower show entries are judged. Please come visit the Southeastern Flower Show Feb 4-6 (closes Sat at 8pm).

Southeastern Flower Show Dargan Installation begins!

Birthing this baby is in full force today. Much after a trial run at the GA Home Show, but one ton of grit was a bear of a challenge to unload into a swirling dervish of a marketplace! The Southeastern Flower Show opens tomorrow (Thurs, Feb 4 - Sat at 8pm) and is located at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta.

Hugh and I will have booksignings at Eagle Eye and and autographed books are also available at our beautiful display. Scilla, hyacinths 'Delft Blue, Pink Pearl & Top Hit', muscari, dutch iris, tulip 'Flair' and more were forced in our mountain retreat specially for this event. Come put in your name for a free book in the drawing on Saturday and come to the "Meet up with Mary Palmer & Hugh" where we'll give away 5 plants.

Timeless Landscape Designs in a Day: Virginia Beach workshop

The Mid-South Horticultural Short Courses, sponsored by The Virginia Horticultural Foundation, started today with a wiz-bang demonstration of potions and liquers. I tested samples of 8 different flavors from lemoncello to kahlua to creme-de-minthe, the real thing. Fabulous flavors with a kick; what a perk to a lecturer.

Tomorrow, I test a new teaching method of Raw, Built and Living Overlays to an over sold audience of 82 people. Whew. Will report back on how many different solutions can be produced for a mountain, courtyard or urban landscape, as students have choices of projects. The audience consists of homeowners, horticulturists, landscape designers and allies professions. All very jovial people, maybe I should server a potion or liquer at the end of the 6 hr session?

Georgia Spring Home Show Dargan Landscape Architects Stunning Exhibit

Georgia Spring Home Show is in full force today. Our first exhibit at a trade show absolutely surpassed my wildest expectations. Our forced bulbs in full bloom: hyacinths, muscari, galanthus, dwarf dutch iris. The moss rich green and moist, Spanish moss hanging realistically from the rafters, the leaf green fountain bubbling, baby Kingsville boxwoods in place and paving complete. Arbor spectacular...it is recycled from the Palladian one in our book and modified for the show. It is solid cypress. Many thanks to David Okun and his marvelous crew: Mundo, Victor and Gino for installation, Steve Miller for boxwoods, Chrissie Hendritze and her mother Connie Mathis for planting everything, and Curt Jackson and Hugh Dargan for painting, lifting and unloading heavy columns, and Chrissie & Mp for the 10x20' amazing backdrop execution.

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