Mary Palmer Dargan talks about her and husband Hugh’s long, storied career as landscape architects.
If you have ever spent even just a little amount of time watching the HGTV cable channel, or picked up the occasional home and garden magazine, chances are pretty good you know the names Mary Palmer Dargan and Hugh Graham Dargan. Their garden and landscape work has been celebrated consistently over the years for its innovative style and philosophical approach—“a timeless quality” is a refrain you’ll frequently hear in reference to the Dargans. For them, the idea is to nurture and coexist with our environmental surroundings rather than simply alter those surroundings to suit our immediate needs, be they aesthetic or utilitarian. Their goal, says Mary Palmer, is to design places “for people to flourish in their home environments… [It] is our passion!”
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