Chickens Designed the Classic Potager

Originally designed without the low hedges, below, merely four corners accented with boxwood & a gravel path.

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A small patch to grow cut flowers.

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What went wrong?

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Chickens.

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Centuries of gardens with low evergreen hedges, especially in the potager.

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Not a design conceit, a design function, to keep the chickens out.

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Decades spent thinking the little hedges were there to be 'cute'.

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No.  And there arrived another lesson in humility with Garden Design.

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Garden & Be Well,   XO Tara

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Pic taken in client garden.  We learned this lesson together.

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Providence was well pleased with us to teach a lesson in humility so humbly.

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For a beautiful garden & home filling you with joy, become my client, local/on-line.

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Tara Dillard & Associates Design: farm to city pied-a-terre.

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NOTE to my gardening friends... look for changes to come. 

Knew before computers/cell phones, sitting in Atlanta traffic on way to a client, 'I must reach a larger audience with the same amount of effort.'   Soon after that epiphany I signed my CBS-TV, and, books contracts on the same day.

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Then I read an article in the NYTimes about something called 'blogging'.  Saved the article for a year before reading it.  Studied all the blogs they mentioned, hired a computer expert they quoted, and attended a blogging seminar.

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Blogging 2.0 has arrived, my knowledge is 1.0.  A believer in copying the best historic gardens across the globe it flows into every arena of life.  Watching Maria Killam grow her career/blog/life over the past 3 years made its impact.  Signed up  for a year's course with her blogging expert, Jon Morrow. 

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Changes will be slow, plodding is my adored method.  Pulling triggers here/there is spice in the mix.
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What do YOU want?

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Nothing is too small, too big, or too ego crushing to mention.

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Passion lies in sharing what has filled me to the depths of grace, joy & atonement, the best landscapes created over the last 2,000+ years.

Just so you know... 
 I  welcome your input.