We design plant-forward landscapes
that are both beautiful and leave a durable ecological legacy.

Thicket Workshop creates ecological landscapes across the Finger Lakes, Catskills, and Adirondacks — places we know not just as a service area, but as a subject of long-term study. We've walked, biked, hiked, and paddled this region for years; read its histories; returned to places that fascinate us in every season. That situated, nuanced knowledge isn't background to our work. It's the foundation every project is built on.

Our projects range widely in scale and setting: from suburban meadow gardens that rewild a backyard, to hedgerows woven into public parks, to hundred-year forest plans for expansive rural properties. What they share is a commitment to a durable ecological legacy.

We collaborate with ambitious clients who want to push the boundaries of what design and planting can accomplish, clients who want their landscapes to grow more complex and alive with each passing year.

Thicket Workshop is led by Matt Dallos, an Assistant Professor in the Landscape Architecture Department at SUNY ESF in Syracuse, NY. He holds a graduate degree in landscape architecture from Penn State and a PhD in environmental history from Cornell — a combination that anchors the firm's work in both active design practice and deep ecological scholarship. That dual grounding shapes everything: how we read a site, how we understand its past, and how we imagine what it might become.