Gardens that
grow into place
Design, build and care / Est. 2011
A landscape studio for people who plan in decades. We draw the garden, we build the garden, and then we stay to look after it as it settles into the ground.
The studio
We plant for the garden you will have in ten years, not the one in the photograph.
Every scheme starts with the soil, the light and the way you actually walk the property. Then structure: hedging, trees, stone. The flowers come last, because they are the easiest thing to change and the hardest thing to lean on.
Garden design
Planting plans drawn by hand, then grown in. Structure first, softness second.
→Outdoor living
Kitchens, fire terraces, plunge pools and the lighting that makes them work after dark.
→Stone and water
Dry laid walls, bluestone terraces, still pools cut into a slope.
→Estate care
A dedicated crew, a seasonal calendar, and one person who answers the phone.
→The year
A garden is a calendar, not a project.
Care is written into the contract from day one. The same crew returns every season, so nobody has to relearn your property in July.
Spring
Wake the beds
Cutbacks, fresh edges, compost worked in, and the first flush of bulbs already planned the autumn before.
Summer
Hold the line
Irrigation audited weekly, canopy lifted for airflow, and the lawn cut at the height that survives August.
Autumn
Plant and divide
The best planting window of the year. Trees go in, perennials get split, and next spring gets written.
Winter
Prune and build
Structural pruning, hardscape construction, and the quiet season when the garden shows its bones.
Recent gardens
Three properties, one long conversation with the site.
Photographed in the third season, once the planting has knitted together and the stone has started to weather. That is when a garden is worth showing.
Let us walk
your ground
We take on a small number of gardens each year. The first visit is a slow walk of the property and an honest answer about what it wants to become.