Lifelong Landscape Design by Marypalmer Dargan

Lifelong Landscape Design by Marypalmer Dargan

No one is born knowing how to garden; we experiment with ways to design outdoor places to meet our changing needs. Landscape patterns, the physical elements, and arrangements of outdoor space designed to accommodate activities are preferences slowly acquired over time.

The patterns and activities of our home environments shape us as much as we shape them. Your home landscape is an evolution of personal experiences from every stage of life: child, adult or elder. As you accumulate a personal language of landscape preferences, these skills enhance the quality of your life.

Lifelong landscape designs create environments that connect with nature, encompass a home, and promote healthy living by providing mobility, social interaction, and places to sustain the body and soul. Learn easy steps to design your own lifelong landscape through more than 200 landscape patterns and activities that illustrate components of healthy living. Enhance the quality of your life at any stage with practical advice from this inspirational landscape architect with more than thirty years experience.

principal in the Atlanta-based firm of Dargan Landscape Architects, a business she shares with her husband, landscape architect Hugh Graham Dargan.

The Dargans' gardens have appeared in hundreds of style magazines and in more than forty books. Their gardens also appear regularly on television, such as Ground Breakers on HGTV. Numerous awards include those from The Garden Club of America and American Society of Landscape Architects.

Mary Palmer's best-selling design book, Timeless Landscape Design: The Four-Part Master Plan, is considered to be essential for any homeowner or landscape designer.

She lives with her husband at Highcote, at High Hampton in Cashiers, North Carolina. Dargan Landscape Architects is located in the Buckhead area of Atlanta, Georgia.