SUMMER 2025

PLACEMAKERS NEWS & EVENTS

From garden parties to nursery tours, we love connecting with our Placemakers near and far! Stay up to date on the next great garden gathering, virtual or live. Here you can find the latest Placemakers Academy News, and join our event invite list too!

JULY & AUGUST 2025 Events

Dargan Landscape Architect’s 50th Anniversary Bash!

Thursday, July 31st, 5:30 at Lewis Hall at the Village Green

Free & Open to the Public, Please RSVP!

Join us Thursday, July 31st, for a very special lecture and get-together to celebrate, the 50th Anniversary of Dargan Landscape Architects. Mary Palmer and Hugh Dargan will give a special lecture, “Gardens that Astonish: Celebrating Dargan’s 50 Years of Trade Secrets”

Libations | Hors d’oeuvre | Live Music & Dancing!

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Placemakers Academy 2025 Garden Study Tour & Celebration

Friday & Saturday, August 1st & 2nd | *Both days included in ticket*

We would like to cordially invite you to the 2025 Placemakers Academy Masterclass, Graduation Celebration and Garden Study Tour. All are invited to celebrate, learn about, and explore beautiful landscapes with garden-loving friends old and new! Over 2 days, we will explore incredible mountain gardens and celebrate our 2024 and 2025 Placemakers Graduates in style. We will explore the process of some of the Placemakers Academy students with a Student Masterclass. All are invited to learn from their bold home gardening journeys!

We will be visiting some of our favorite Cashiers gardens- some of which are our very own Placemakers Academy graduates’ gardens. We’ll also celebrate our 2024 and 2025 graduates in style with a graduation party and reserved tent with libations and hors d’oeuvre at the Cashiers Groovin’ on the Green! (Our town’s live music get-together for those of you coming form out of town!)

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PLACEMAKERS NEWS

Dargan Landscape Architects receives International APLD GOLD Landscape Design Award

The Association of Professional Landscape Designers awarded Mary Palmer Dargan, RLA, principal of Dargan Landscape Architects of Cashiers, NC.  the prestigious International GOLD landscape design award at their recent conference in Chicago.

The Cashiers team of John Warren, Natural Landscapes and Wayne Miller of Miller Landscapes worked tirelessly for 3 years to develop the grounds. Edmund Taylor, horticulturist supreme, managed the plant material collections of rare evergreen and deciduous trees, flowering shrubs, vines, perennials, dahlias and woodland plantings for well over a decade.

Association of Professional Landscape Designers Gold International Design Winner

Mary Palmer Dargan, RLA of Dargan Landscape Architects receives an International GOLD Landscape Design Award from Eric Gilbey of Vectorworks, President of The Association of Professional Landscape Designers at the July conference in Chicago, IL.

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