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.
The Eclectic Garden
The Eclectic Garden
The original landscaping crowded the entrance while leaving the three-car garage to carry most of the visual weight. The house wasn’t small, but the landscape made it feel that way.
I opened the center, shifted height and mass toward the outer edges of the property, and created sight lines that allowed the architecture to breathe. Repeating forms, materials and color across the frontage helped the home feel wider, more balanced and more connected to the garden.
Kathy wanted something water-wise and easy to care for - but not restrained. She loved annuals, sculptural plants, garden art and saturated color, especially purples, blues and pinks. That became the foundation of an artsy, eclectic garden built with palms for rhythm and height, succulents and boulders for structure, and bold pots and flowers that move the eye across the property.
The Eclectic Garden
We invested in larger palms to establish the height immediately, then chose smaller plants where time could do the work. Three boulders anchor the composition and give the new planting enough presence to hold its own against the architecture.
I led the project from design through sourcing and installation, including irrigation, lighting and edging. My installation team and I brought the garden to life in five working days.
Newly planted, the structure was already there. Nine months later, the garden had begun to soften and fill in - exactly as planned. It will keep changing with the flowers, the seasons and whatever Kathy discovers next.
Sculptural art
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![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.
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![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.
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![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.
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![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.
