Mary Palmer Dargan

principal, Dargan Landscape Architects

Mary Palmer Dargan 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 the 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.