Design Services

The Landscape Garden

Design and consultation for new or existing gardens: Site evaluation, soil analysis, species inventory. Each garden is unique and proceeds from person and place. A thorough understanding of your site is the first step, as well as intended use. A concept map outlining potential plant communities begins the process. Through conversation and consideration, this leads to detailed plans of designed plant communities and plant lists. Your preferences and needs are an integral part of this ecology of place. Project management and ongoing support to create the garden you dream. Gardens are cultivated and created.

Kitchen Gardens

Food production done beautifully

What does it take to grow food in our region and in your garden? Growing food year round, integration of food plants into the naturescape (Edible Landscaping) and highly productive vegetable gardens and orchards are my expertise. Espalies, Allee and Pleached tree training. Specialty grafting. Food production problems. Plans, plant/variety lists, schedule of planting. Orchard design, planting and pruning. Making all things edible beautiful, integrated and accessible. I’ve grown food for my family here for 40 years. You can too.

Gardens Reimagined

Garden Remodels

Ever present climate change is moving us to reimagine how we live, including how we garden. Has your thinking changed on how your garden should surround ?

Small steps can make a big difference. Replacing lawns, creating pollination corridors, gravel gardens and steppe plantings are some of the solutions. ‘Firescaping’ and Fire Wise are essential considerations. When we think of the land and the place we live as an integral part of larger nature, design flows naturally and connects our gardens to the broader landscape.