Design that begins
in the field and never
really leaves it.

Working with plants means working with living things — organisms that grow, respond, surprise, and change across seasons and years. We think that's the best part. Our process is built around that dynamic, and it shapes every phase of how we work, from first site visit to the decades of stewardship that follow.

Site Research

Before we design anything, we go out and look. Site research is where we bring our knowledge of this region's ecology and environmental history to bear on your specific land — sketching in the field, recording GIS data, capturing drone photography, and spending time in dialogue with clients about their goals and their relationship to the place. Every site has its own logic: its soils, its water, its existing plant communities, its history of use and neglect. This phase is about understanding that logic to inform a more ecological future.

Site Design

With a clear understanding of the site and the client's ambitions, we develop an approach — moving from conceptual design through to technical planting plans. This is a collaborative, iterative process. Because we're designing with living systems rather than static materials, we think carefully about how a landscape will perform not just at planting, but as it matures and shifts over time: which species will establish quickly, which will take decades to reach their potential, how the composition will evolve as the canopy closes or the meadow thickens. When the design is ready, we help identify the right contractor to bring it to life.

Planting

We don't hand off the plans and step back. During installation, we're on site alongside the contractor, ensuring that the landscape is properly laid out and planted. This is one of our favorite moments in any project — when plants that have lived as drawings and data finally go into the ground, and a designed landscape begins its actual life. Getting it right at this stage sets the conditions for everything that follows.

Establishment & Long-term Management

A newly planted landscape is not a finished one — it's a beginning. Plants establish at their own pace, communities shift and self-organize in ways no plan fully anticipates, and the most interesting changes often take years to unfold. We stay involved through all of it: monitoring progress, adapting when challenges arise, and developing ongoing relationships with clients that allow a landscape to be genuinely understood and tended over time. This is where the dynamic nature of plant life becomes most vivid, and most rewarding. We're not interested in handing over a finished product. We're interested in participating in what a place becomes.