Timeless Landscape Design

  Why. What. How. I’m all about nutrition and cost-effective ways to keep healthy. Enjoy this free 8-part course on Sprouting for Health!  ( Parts 1-2) Why. What. How. ( Parts 3-4) Soak. Incubate. Rinse. (Parts 5-6) Plant. Incubate.Rack. (Parts 7-8) Crop. Store. Share. Why I SPROUT???  : Hugh and I sprout seeds & legumes in our home for health and good eatin’! Facts: Sprouts are packed with phytonutrients, phytochemicals, terpines and sesquiterpenes. Found in sprouted foods, these biochemical properties inhibit toxin accumulation, are anti inflammatory and antiseptic, among other benefits . Our bodies crave the nutrition found in sprouts! Podcast 009 is the introduction to this lecture series. Enjoy learning about sprouts! You don’t need a green thumb to grow sprouts and leafy greens. I’ll go over all the details in the 8 podcasts, plus share recipes and a list of supplies. sources of seeds: Rita’s Sprout house is my favorite Sow True Seeds is ready with great mixes and have pretty labels, too!!    Topics

Why. What. How. I’m all about nutrition and cost-effective ways to keep healthy. Enjoy this free 8-part course on Sprouting for Health!  ( Parts 1-2) Why. What. How. ( Parts 3-4) Soak. Incubate. Rinse. (Parts 5-6) Plant. Incubate.Rack. (Parts 7-8) Crop. Store. Share. Why I SPROUT???  : Hugh and I sprout seeds & legumes in our home for health and good eatin’! Facts: Sprouts are packed with phytonutrients, phytochemicals, terpines and sesquiterpenes. Found in sprouted foods, these biochemical properties inhibit toxin accumulation, are anti inflammatory and antiseptic, among other benefits . Our bodies crave the nutrition found in sprouts! Podcast 009 is the introduction to this lecture series. Enjoy learning about sprouts! You don’t need a green thumb to grow sprouts and leafy greens. I’ll go over all the details in the 8 podcasts, plus share recipes and a list of supplies. Sunflower and pea greens, buckwheat, radish, wheat grass, fenugreek, lentil…the list goes ever onward! Getting your supplies together i

The 4 part Master Plan...our signature landscape design move.  I'm all for reducing stress. A property that is at home in its 4 parts :  The Approach & Arrival Sequence, Hub, Perimeter, Linkages to Destinations is at peace. It functions seamlessly to meet your lifestyle. Timeless Landscape Design is both a process and a philosophy of how you want to live on your property. Properties that are are well-designed are classical and hold their value.  Hugh and I wrote Timeless Landscape Design over a 40 year period...it is a seminal work by two professionals deeply entrenched in their body of work...enough so to have a philosophy. Enjoy this reading! Topics in this episode Part 1: . How to see the forest for the trees. . The Approach & Arrival Sequence, Hub, Perimeter, Linkages to Destinations  . Connect with the Web of Life   

Design your home grounds to please your eye, nourish your soul and make life easier! Ars Longa, Vita Brevis : Art is forever, but life is short. Timeless Landscape Design shares how I think as a professional landscape architect and the techniques we do for our clients. In this podcast series, you can take your garden to school.  We offer the touchstone of design by modelling idas gleaned from international travels to see what makes gardens- and home landscape - "tick". What are the questions you have about it? Art principles and a structured design process guide our practice. You can use these too and reveal the potential of your house thru skillful editing. I'm all for reducing stress. A property is "at peace" that is  at home in its 4 parts :  The Approach & Arrival Sequence, Hub, Perimeter, Linkages to Destinations. It functions seamlessly to meet your lifestyle. Timeless Landscape Design is both a process and a philosophy of how you want to live on your property. Properties that are are well-designed

Essential oils are powerful herbal remedies and essences. Nancy DiMao, Director of Hippocrates Health Institute's Oasis Spa, is an expert on aromatic alchemy, the history of essential oils and their uses.  Essential oils affect your body on the physical, emotional and energetic level. It is not aromatherapy. Interestingly, angels and saints were said to be preceded by a "most sweet scent" the viewer could not explain. The word, messiah, means 'to annoint'. insense is a "per (thru)-fume (smoke).  Nature has given us these plants with healing properties we scarcely understand. Science can distill essential oils in plants and rank them by frequency of vibration. It is very interesting that some of the most powerful herbs and flowers on earth with regard to anti-microbial properties, such as clove, record incredibly high frequency vibrations. They help you raise YOUR vibration to heal or ward off disease. For instance the floral essential oil of ROSE is famous for combating depression, and is also an aphrodesiac.

Sprouts, baby plants with untouched, concentrated nutrition, are easily grown and fun to eat! Linda Frees , author of Simply Sprouts, shares her tips about recipes & techniques. Hello out there. I've been visiting Hippocrates Health Institute for 20 years for periodic health tune-ups. Its been an eye-opening experience to learn so much about health and wellness. I find lessons in how to balance stress in life's tight rope, how to eat more mindfully and the value of life-force foods...sprout. Being someone of a horticulturist, sprouts fit naturally into my life. I travel a lot, so helpful hints on how to maintain a fresh diet while on the road are appreciated. I met Linda Frees, director of The Hippocrates Health Institute's Ambassador Program after returning for the 7-8 time. Her new book was exactly what I needed to share with friends on how to 'Simply Sprout'. It rocks! I share her videos. Enjoy!  This episode - Part 2 .Beautiful dishes to make .Chocolates .How it fits together: Soil-planted microgreens

Sprouts, baby plants with untouched, concentrated nutrition, are easily grown and fun to eat! Linda Frees, author of Simply Sprouts, shares her tips about recipes & techniques. Hello out there. I've been visiting Hippocrates Health Institute for 20 years for periodic health tune-ups. Its been an eye-opening experience to learn so much about health and wellness. I find lessons in how to balance stress in life's tightrope, how to eat more mindfully and the value of life-force foods...sprout. Being someone of a horticulturist, sprouts fit naturally into my life. I travel a lot, so helpful hints on how to maintain a fresh diet while on the road are appreciated. I met Linda Frees, director of The Hippocrates Health Institute's Ambassador Program after returning for the 7-8 time. Her new book was exactly what I needed to share with friends on how to 'Simply Sprout'. It rocks! I share her videos. Enjoy!  This episode Part 1 .Baby Plants .The food desert & travel .Enzymes  

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 : .

Taming Raw Materials: Dovecote, Highcote & the Dargans ! Scattered around our lives are home environments we transformed. The new owners didn't change them. I guess their timeless qualities of balance, proportion and perfect material combinations and shapes perpetually fit the bill! This podcast offers a behind the scenes look at how we made our two most recent homes environments come alive: Dovecote, a charming farmhouse, and Highcote, a large estate with many gardens. The visual plus is that there is a video that complements this podcast, so you can gain take aways to model right away.   This inaugural series ( part 2 of 3) includes a look at : .Taming Dovecote- a charming farmhouse with LOTs of problems. .Creating Highcote's Sense of Place-over 17 years we worked some pretty serious magic! .The Dargans are introduced. 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 -------

The Big Picture. Your Tricky Place. The Wish List. Sustainability. Natural Disasters. I’m visual learner and welcome words that light sparks in my mind.  Let’s set a visual tone for you in the spoken words of Timeless Landscape Design: The Garden Talk Salon. I’ll try to add photo galleries, an instructional .pdf or a video. With these resources, you can look, learn and easily model ideas. There is a high value in creating a home utopia. A sustainable landscape that supports your lifestyle and nurtures mother nature. To rest lightly on the land and hold hands with nature is a high calling for an enlightened homeowner. Be proud of your efforts! Persevere to create a clean home environment where you can flourish on all levels of life. Hugh and I encounter many Tricky Places as our work enters its 45th year in 2018. We’ve soothed entanglements between man and nature in high mountain ridges to low coastal edges.  This inaugural episode includes a look at : . The BIG WHY  . Your Wish List.  . Natural Disasters rear