Garden studioDelray Beach, FloridaSince 2009
A field guide to your own garden.
We design, plant and look after South Florida gardens that belong here — sea grape, buttonwood, coral stone. Then we hand you the guide to every plant in yours.
Field notes
Most yards here are planted for somewhere else. Thirsty sod, hedges that hate salt, annuals that fold by June.
We start from what already thrives within a mile of your house, then compose it like a garden — layered, shaded, walkable. It costs less to water, it holds in a storm, and it looks better in year five than the day we plant it.
- 412gardens planted since 2009
- 7 in 10plants we set are native or Florida-friendly
- 2 yrsplant guarantee with a care plan
What we do
Four ways in.
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Fig. 1
Garden design
for new builds and tired yards
A measured site survey, a scaled planting plan, a plant list in Latin and plain English, and a fixed price to build it. Two revisions included.
Design fee from $2,400 · credited if we plant it
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Planting & stonework
our own crew, no subcontractors
Soil, trees, palms, understory, coral stone paths and walls, drip irrigation set zone by zone. Nursery-direct plants we pick ourselves in Homestead and Loxahatchee.
Most gardens $18,000–$65,000
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Garden care
the same two people, every visit
Hand pruning, feeding, palm care, pest scouting and irrigation checks. No blowers before 9, no hedge-trimmer haircuts, a short note after each visit.
From $285 a month · twice-monthly visits
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Light & water
after dark, and in August
Low-voltage brass lighting that shows the trees, not the fixtures. Smart controllers and drip conversions that usually cut garden water use by a third.
Lighting from $3,200 · irrigation retrofits from $1,900
The plant palette
Choose a garden. Meet its plants.
Recent gardens
Plates III–VI
Four gardens from the last two seasons, each photographed at least a year after planting. That's the only honest time to take the picture.
How a garden happens
From a walk to a field guide.
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The garden walk
Free · about 45 minutes
We walk your yard with you. Light, salt, soil, drainage, what's worth keeping, what's quietly dying. You get honest notes by email that evening.
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Plan & palette
Two to three weeks
A scaled plan, a plant palette with photographs, and one fixed price. Change anything you like — twice — before a single shovel moves.
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Planting
Three to ten working days
Our own crew of four. We protect the trees you're keeping, fix the soil first, plant small where small grows better, and leave the street cleaner than we found it.
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Your field guide
Printed, and yours to keep
Every plant in your garden: its Latin name, where it's from, when it flowers, how to water it in a dry April. Most clients keep us on for care; none have to.
What clients say
4.9 138 Google reviews · last one 4 days ago
They talked us out of half the plants we asked for. They were right. Eighteen months on, the sea grape is over the fence and we've run the sprinklers maybe five times.
The printed guide is the thing I show people. My kids know the Latin name of the coontie now.
Quote was fixed and it stayed fixed, even when they hit an old septic lid under the lawn.
Same two gardeners every visit, Inés and Tom. They prune by hand and leave a note about what's blooming. After years of mow-and-blow crews it's a different world.
Where we garden
Twenty miles of coast, and the streets behind it.
We keep the range short on purpose: the crew that plants your garden should be able to get back to it in twenty minutes when a storm is coming.
West of the Turnpike or south of Boca? Call anyway — we take a few larger projects a year further out.
- Manalapan
- Ocean Ridge
- Boynton Beach
- Gulf Stream
- Delray Beachthe studio
- Highland Beach
- Boca Raton
Atlantic
Start here
Walk your garden with us.
The first visit is free and takes about 45 minutes. We're booking walks two to three weeks out; planting dates are open from late October, once the rains ease.
- Call
- (561) 555-0148
- Studio & yard
- 2140 Sandbur Lane
Delray Beach, FL 33444 - Hours
- Mon–Fri 7:30–4:30
Sat by appointment