Mary Dargan

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Mary Palmer Dargan and her husband Hugh, are the principals of Dargan Landscape Architects, located in the Buckhead area of Atlanta, Georgia. Mary is a native of Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to earning her Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture from LSU in 1981, she was education director and botanist at Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Fine Art in Nashville. She is author of The Early English Kitchen Garden: Medieval Period to 1800. Continuing education has included professional courses at the Harvard School of Design. She has served on the National Advisory Committee of the Garden Conservancy, and is a former garden editor of Charleston Magazine. She serves on the board of the Cherokee Garden Library of the Atlanta History Center, and is a member of the Cherokee Garden Club (Garden Club of America). Mary Palmer Dargan joined the design studio in 1984; she became a principal in 1985.

Together, the Dargans completed the British National Trust’s course at West Dean in Sussex on Restoring Historic Landscapes. In 1992, the Dargans were named by Southern Accents as two of the South’s leading landscape architects; since then, their work has become increasing national in focus. Trophies and awards include both Regional and National Awards of Merit from the American Society of Landscape Architects. Several of their projects currently air on Ground Breakers and Secret Gardens Of… weekly, primetime television series produced by Home & Garden Television (HGTV). The Dargans’ projects have been featured in major gardening books and dozens of magazines and newspapers such as Garden Design, Southern Accents and The New York Times.

The Dargans are nationally known lecturers. Their book, Timeless Landscape Design: The Four Part Master Plan, Gibbs Smith 2007, conveys techniques to simplify and unify properties. Lifelong Landscape Design: Gardens for Health and Longevity, Gibbs Smith 2012, discusses sustainability techniques suited to life in a changing world.

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