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Recent gardens, in their first summer.
Most of our work begins not with a plan but with a long walk. We track the sun across the back lawn at three o'clock in February. We dig a quart-sized hole and squeeze the soil. We watch where deer cross the property line and whether the kids actually use the patio you spent eight thousand dollars on in 2017. The garden you want is hiding inside the garden you already have, and our job is mostly to listen for it.
We design with a bias toward natives, toward year-round structure over peak-summer drama, toward stone that was already on the property over slabs trucked in from somewhere else. We are happy to put in a swimming pool, but we will probably argue for a smaller one ringed in serviceberry. We measure success in how often you eat dinner outside in October.
This volume of the studio's catalog covers our 2026 calendar — two flagship services (full residential design and meadow restoration), our urban-garden specialty, and a working list of the native plants we've been leaning on this year. If something here speaks to you, the simplest next step is a site visit.
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"They drew us a garden we didn't know we wanted, then made it look like it had been there for thirty years."— A. & J. Marlowe, Hawthorne Court · Portland
Every garden gets the same care, but the level of involvement scales with the project. All tiers begin with a paid two-hour site visit; the visit fee is credited back if you proceed.
The first conversation is always on-site. We walk the property, sketch in a notebook, photograph anything worth keeping, and leave you with a one-page handwritten brief within a week. The visit fee is credited back if you book a design.