Where artistry takes root
Where artistry
takes root
Residential landscape design in Sarasota, Bradenton and nearby communities. Thoughtful gardens shaped around your home and how you live outdoors.
Residential landscape design in Sarasota, Bradenton and nearby communities.
Thoughtful gardens shaped around your home and how you live outdoors.
Gardens I’m
proud to share
These are gardens I’ve created with homeowners, along with my own. Each reflects a different person and place. Here’s a little of what I saw and how the design came together.
The Refined Garden
Chris & Gary’s succulent garden
Chris is my neighbor and friend, and we built this garden together. I led the design, with Chris leaning on me for creative direction and plant advice along the way. She brought her own ideas and creativity, working alongside me the entire time.
We started fresh, laying fabric and framing every planting island, carefully keeping the walking paths even. We laughed, debated, got a little grumpy, talked and sweated. A lot. But most of all, we created something magical.
The fun part began when we cut the first hole in the fabric for a plant. We worked through each section, balancing color, texture and what each plant needed, imagining how everything would grow together.
I’m proud of what we built, and I still get to enjoy it every time I’m back in the garden, whether I’m working alongside Chris or caring for it for her.
Full redesign
-
![A modern two-story house with a gray garage door, white walls, and a red tiled roof, surrounded by a well-maintained front yard with a small tree, shrubs, and a lawn under a partly cloudy sky.]()
The landscape felt overgrown and out of balance — the house carried all the visual weight.
-
![]()
The landscape became equal
to the architecture. -
![]()
Full view of house from the street so that you can see both sides of the garden.
-
![]()
And our client loves her new garden. It’s matured since planting, filling in and creating the lush colorful landscape she had hoped for . All the while having a low maintenance garden that she has keep up with.
-
![A front yard with a tall palm tree, various smaller plants, and flower bushes in front of a white house with a tiled roof and large windows.]()
Adding structure or resting spots brings clarity, that help your eye transition through the garden.
This house needed some magical resting spots it so deserved. -
![Colorful glass art sculpture resembling tall flowers in front of a residential house with a manicured garden and mulch in the yard under a bright blue sky.]()
You gotta have Art - in a garden. For my client, she was in love with glass art so we found the pieces that spoke to her and they found their place in the garden. And who knows what she might add as her garden grows through the years. They tend to collect tiny treasures over time.
-
![A landscaped garden bed with various succulents and flowering plants, a large rock, and decorative purple glass orbs, bordered by white rocks. In the background, a house exterior with windows, a door, and potted plants.]()
The closer you look, the more the landscape reveals. We went all out in this landscape by mixing tropical palms and bromeliads with succulent plants. And to curate the masterpiece, water flow and specific plant need played a huge role in my thinking in both design and in where the water lines needed to run. Everything in this garden was built from the ground up. we were able to control which plant got water, which didnt. (except when Mother Nature got involved.) Clustering like watering need plants also helps too as you can see in this image.
-
![Close-up of colorful orange, yellow, and red leaves of a tropical plant in a garden, with a blurred house, trees, and a street in the background on a sunny day.]()
Color is woven throughout
the landscape. And balanced from one side to the other. I dont simply repeat the pattern. I visually balance it. With form, function, color, shadow, pattern, leaf shape, height, growth, water need, sun/shade, pests, warm vs cold preferences, etc. there is a lot to consider with florida gardens. They sure are magical when you get them right. -
![A garden bed with green shrubbery, pink flowers, and reddish-green plants, with a white wall and black fence in the background.]()
The eye has somewhere to travel.
-
![A residential front yard features potted plants, flower beds, a tree, and a stone pathway. There is a blue pot with a plant, colorful flowers, and a white fence in the background, with a house to the left and blue sky overhead.]()
The landscape expands the
presence of the home. -
![A landscaped front yard with palm trees, a small purple flower bed, and a large house with white walls and a tiled roof in the background.]()
Not mirrored—connected.
-
![Colorful orange and yellow succulent plant in a deep blue pot in a backyard with palm trees, rocks, and a blue sky.]()
When opposites attract.
Curve meets pointy.
Orange meets blue.
Sculptural art
-
![A residential front yard at dusk featuring a tall palm tree illuminated by outdoor lighting, with a flower bed edged with decorative borders and small lights, and a house with two-car garage in the background.]()
The hero stood in his own light.
-
![A residential backyard with a large palm tree and other tropical plants, a house with a red tiled roof, a gravel pathway, and a blue sky with some clouds.]()
White blooms - slowly revealing who he was, decades in the making.
-
![Close-up view of creamy white flowers on a male ponytail palm, set against a bright blue sky.]()
A rare bloom on a mature ponytail palm — a moment that comes only with time.
-
![A landscaped garden with a tree trunk, large rocks, and a decorative circular feature filled with white and black stones, including a small orange plant at the center, surrounded by pink and purple flowers and green foliage.]()
Art — translated into landscape.
