Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel)

Gardening for resilience and reciprocity

Services

  • Consultation

    Discuss possibilities for ecological design/install projects in your home or at your business, troubleshoot a problem in your garden, or get a step-by-step DIY guide to plant and maintain your own native garden. Consultations may be on-site or virtual.

  • Design and Install

    Designing and installing ecologically oriented gardens with an equal focus on restoration and beauty. Specialties include lawn to native restoration, urban pocket meadows and container gardens, stormwater management, upcycling, and establishing stable plant communities suited to the land and climate requiring minimal maintenance over time.

  • Stewardship

    Bringing knowledge of plants, animal habitats, and ecosystem relationships to the stewardship of gardens to provide beauty and ecological benefits throughout the seasons. Services include seasonal maintenance, vacation or other short-term care, invasive removal, safe pest management, and property cleanup. 

Portfolio

  • A container garden installation with four large pots containing plants, set on a stone ledge with a wooden fence, a rusty metal ladder, and lush green foliage in the background.

    Design and install of container garden and irrigation system in Park Slope

  • A lush garden with trees, bushes, and flowering plants. A red wooden bench is positioned on a brick patio, surrounded by greenery. A small stone bench with white roses and a blue pot with plants are also visible.

    Long-term stewardship and garden design edits in Windsor Terrace

  • Newly installed native plants replacing a front lawn in Ditmas Park.

    Design and install of lawn to native garden in Ditmas Park

  • A pocket meadow installed outside an apartment building in Ditmas Park, featuring big bluestem, little bluestem, Echinacea, goldenrod, hyssop, Joe-Pye weed, and asters.

    Design and install of pocket meadow with gravel substrate to minimize maintenance on apartment block in Ditmas Park

  • A foundation planting of echinacea, hyssop, and asters in front of an apartment building in Ditmas Park.

    Native perennial foundation planting for apartment building Ditmas Park

  • A mixed planting of echinacea and rosemary in front of Hydrangea paniculata surrounded by stone pathway in a residential garden in Windsor Terrace.

    Garden design edit in Windsor Terrace

  • Tiarella cordifolia planted beside a stone rabbit in a residential garden in Ditmas Park.

    Native ground cover in ecological garden design edit in Windsor Terrace

  • Freshly laid sheet mulch to kill a lawn in preparation for native garden installation at a home in Ditmas Park.

    Front yard sheet mulched with upcycled materials to remove lawn for future native garden design/install in Ditmas Park

  • Sheet mulching in progress to kill a lawn in preparation for native garden installation at a home in Ditmas Park.

    Lawn removal with upcycled materials for future native garden in Ditmas Park

  • Window box installation featuring ferns, Tiarella cordifolia, and begonias at a home in Park Slope.

    Design/install of summer window box in Park Slope

  • Window box installation edited for fall, featuring ferns, Tiarella cordifolia, and grasses at a home in Park Slope.

    Edit of window box design for fall/winter in Park Slope

  • Native container planting featuring New York Aster, Maryland Aster, Geranium maculatum, and more in Ditmas Park.

    Close-up on container garden on apartment block in Ditmas Park

  • Backyard garden in Park Slope, featuring my sunbathing dog Frida.

    Seasonal stewardship and garden design edits in Park Slope

  • Flowers overflowing in front garden in Park Slope.

    Garden design edit in Park Slope

  • A newly installed pocket meadow with a gravel substrate in Park Slope, featuring little bluestem, Joe-Pye weed, asters, yarrow, and more.

    Design and install of pocket meadow with gravel substrate to minimize maintenance on brownstone block in Park Slope

  • A lush backyard garden in Windsor Terrace featuring a fig tree, hydrangeas, black-eyed susans, coneflowers, and potted annuals and herbs.

    Long-term stewardship and garden design edits in Windsor Terrace

  • Front yard of a pink Victorian-style row house with rose bushes.

    Stewardship and garden design edit in Flatbush

  • A backyard garden after spring cleaning.

    Seasonal stewardship in Flatbush

  • A lush backyard garden after spring cleaning with various leafy plants and flowers, a narrow stone pathway, a red mushroom-shaped garden ornament, and a white fence on the right side, with sunlight filtering through the greenery.

    Seasonal stewardship in Flatbush

  • A backyard garden after spring cleaning, featuring a stone and pebble patio, redbud trees, hydrangeas, and more.

    Spring cleaning in Flatbush

  • Colorful front garden with pink roses.

    Rose care in Flatbush

  • A hugelkultur in the making, showing a pile of pine tree branches and leaves inside a large raised garden bed outside the Bedford Library.

    Hugulkultur in progress for a community garden built for the Bedford Library in Bed-Stuy

  • Frida, my dog, with a smile on her face as she sits in the raised bed beside seed packs ready to be planted at the Bedford Library garden.

    Frida selecting seeds for the Bedford Library Community Garden

  • Raised bed with newly growing beans, corn, and squash at the Bedford Library garden.

    Early growth in the Bedford Library Community Garden

  • Blueberry bush in autumn at the Bedford Library garden.

    Blueberry foliage in autumn at the Bedford Library Community Garden

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