ABOUT ME

- My earliest memories of the garden are of the giant sunflowers towering over me in my parents garden, or sitting in the branches of the crabapple tree behind my childhood house in Michigan. When we moved to Alaska, with the midnight sun all summer, the vegetables grew very large, unless they were browsed on by the moose walking through the neighborhoods. 

- While I didn’t do any gardening in Boston or New York during college, I did spend nearly every day running or biking through the amazing park systems that both cities featured. The crocus bursting through the snow in Central Park were always a welcome sign after a cold winter, and the tulips made the spring show come fully back to life.

- Moving to California in 1996 was when my connection to gardening really came to the forefront, having taken a job at a landscape company as a ‘break’ from the grueling years in architecture school. Little did I know that nearly 30 years later I would still be digging in the dirt, planting flowers and trees and designing gardens for clients.

- There are so many things that our gardens provide for us: beauty, shade, food, play, rest, birds and critters, a connection to something wild, a space for families to gather. Nature gives us pause and space to breathe, to ponder and be inspired. My hope is that your garden brings you all of these things and more. Memories, joy, and peace.