Four movements, in order.

The first meeting is never at a desk. We walk your property together for a morning: slope, soil, light, water, wind, the views worth keeping and the ones worth losing. Just as important, we listen for how your household actually uses the outdoors, and what it wishes it could.

You will get our honest read on the spot, including whether your ambitions and the site agree, and a written follow-up with a flat design fee. The walk itself costs nothing and obligates nobody.

The studio goes to work: survey and site analysis, then a concept plan presented in person and revised with you. The final master plan covers hardscape drawings, the full planting plan named to the cultivar, lighting and irrigation schematics, and the document we are perhaps best known for: a phased investment analysis with honest numbers against each stage.

The plan is yours to build in one season or five. Design fees are credited toward construction when our crews build the work.

Our own crews build the work, led by a foreman who sat in the design meetings. The sequence is fixed because the craft demands it: earthwork and drainage, then stone, then structures, then soil rebuilt to horticultural depth, then plants, each at the right week of its season.

You will always know where the number stands. Changes happen on paper before they happen on the ground, and the site is kept clean enough to live next to, because you are.

The day the crew leaves is the day the garden starts, and gardens improve or blur depending on who keeps them. Our stewardship program assigns your garden a horticulturist and a standing crew working to a written annual calendar tuned to your planting.

Each visit feeds observations back to the design studio, so the garden is quietly edited and enriched season over season. Enrollment opens each January and is deliberately limited.