003: Tricky Places. Want to Unleash Your Spirit of Place? Part 3: Nothing to Something. Charleston Courtyard to Mountain Chic. Mind.Body.Spirit. Web of Life.

From Nothing to Something. Charleston Courtyard to Mountain Chic. ..Mind.Body.Spirit… Web of Life. Seeing the potential in a property is part client goals, part professional training and part divine inspiration, especially when the earth talks to you! Watching a humble unformed raw piece of ground slowly become a living breathing garden never ceases to put me in awe. Its the spirit of place…that indelible peace and special character that says…I am unforgettable. The British recognized it when they saw gardens on The Grand Tour in Italy and France in the 18th century. You too can transform your home environment with some action steps offered by the models from 55 Church Street in Charleston and a mountain home in Wade Hampton, in Cashiers NC. Both were once serious construction sites devoid of charm. The mind, body and spirit of a property are discussed as well as understanding the web of life. Enjoy part 3 of our introductory series on Tricky Places! This inaugural series ( part 3 of 3) includes a look at : .Creating a Sense of Place .The Interrelated Mind, Body and Spirit of a piece of land . The fascinating and integral Web of LIfe VISUALS: Tricky Places video for you for parts 1-3 .  https://youtu.be/eOBPcDGQN3U Just fast forward to the time stamp on the audio! Cheers,  Hugh & Mary Palmer Dargan, aslas —————————————————– What is Timeless Landscape Design: The Garden Talk Salon?  AKA juicy nuggets of garden design brought to you by a think-tank of horticulturists, floral designers, sculptors, and designers. Who? Hugh and I are licensed landscape architects who migrated in 1997 to Cashiers in the western North Carolina mountains. Hugh Dargan & I purchased Dovecote in 2012 as our landscape architectural offices. For 2 decades, we’d created gardens at Highcote in High Hampton, now featured in our healthcare garden design primer, Lifelong Landscape Design and written the best-selling landscape design book, Timeless Landscape Design : The Four Part Master Plan. LIttle Dovecote needed everything.  Forget it serving as our office HQ; we enjoyed this historic 1929 farmhouse so much that it became our permanent home.  The best part about Dovecote is its context: the quaint, small and historic domestic structure, unused barn, future sculpture meadow and woodland path to the lake.  Where?  Many of our podcasts are live events. Each summer season, we host Friday lectures at Dovecote Gardens, our organic teaching gardens. Contemporary Stonehenge is now in the meadow and features atmospheric stone sculptures by artist, Carl Peverall.  On Friday mornings, 10 am-noon, from Mothers Day to Labor Day, we hold The Garden Talk Salon. The brightest and most informed experts appear and share their stories about plants, design, cooking or nature.   Find Dovecote at 35 Flash Point Drive (aka McKinney Way), Cashiers, NC 28717. What’s in it for you? Your home environment can fit your lifestyle like a glove. My lifelong mission is to “Heal The Earth One Garden at a Time”. Now is the time to take your garden to school. Don’t miss the inaugural episodes of Taming Tricky Places: Timeless Landscape Design. Our first 3 podcasts introduce why a master plan is important, and better yet, how to create one in 4 parts that will make your home environment fit your lifestyle like a glove. This is visual learning at its best.  A bonus awaits of videos with useful action steps. and Live Garden Talk Salons (GTS) videos reduced by magic into smaller bits. So these first three podcasts are hot off the press from Tricky Places, my next garden design book. What else is in store? . Timeless Landscape Design guides everything we do at Dovecote. You’ll take home useful action steps to improve and organize your own home environment. . Lifelong Landscape Design: Environments for Health & Longevity peppers its concepts to keep the podcast pace lively. Action steps are provided to transform your home environment into an oasis of health, healing and inspiration.   . Interviews with my favorite healthy garden gurus await you. They often introduce one of our courses. . Free courses to dip in – or binge thru- as you wish.  Be sure to subscribe and not miss an episode of The Garden Talk Salon! URL: https://youtu.be/eOBPcDGQN3U