About

I delight in creating outdoor living spaces in which people can spend time enjoying the benefits of nature. 

Gardens have always been a part of my life, our family’s life. Wherever we ventured, time with family always included parks, gardens, historic places, and museums of all kinds.  Fertile ground for a visual person like myself.

My mom’s sister, a life-long professional horticulturist, inspired us.  From an early age, much time was spent in gardens, learning how plants grow while working the land: pruning & sculpting, expanding or modifying planting beds & borders, building stone walls, walks & entries, manicuring or loosely defining edges and hedges, all while enjoying nature.

Now, with six decades exploring green spaces around the world and having snapped thousands of photos along the way, I continue to seek out the beauty in nature, sometimes unspoiled or nature crafted by man, designing mostly residential landscapes, big and small.

My design philosophy is grounded in the belief that we have an inherent responsibility to design landscapes that work with not against nature.  I incorporate sustainable design features, seeking out native varieties to help preserve and protect our biodiverse world.

I work to include useful and attractive design elements from shapes and materials I find around us.  Whether transforming the sight of surf-worn shells by way of using polished black Japanese-style stones as a weed block and to aid run-off, nature offers infinite design ideas.  Twists and turns of a trail in the woods urge us to explore, flowing pathways and planting beds should do the same.

I am a lifelong conservationist, outdoorsman, and professional business manager turned landscape designer.

My naturalistic design roots were cultivated by experiences encouraged by my parents and inspired by the naturalist John Burroughs plus design visionaries Frederic Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ellen Biddle Shipman plus many more.