We specialize in all things pretty.
From English cottage garden design to custom veggie gardens, we make landscapes breathtakingly beautiful.
Our Landscape Design Services
We’re not your typical Maryland landscape designer. We specialize in the English cottage garden aesthetic.
You know—more is more, controlled chaos, layered blooms, and the full romantic shebang. Our cottage gardens are timeless, lush, and endlessly charming—plus, they’re a haven for backyard pollinators, beneficial insects, and songbirds.
Whether you dream of an enchanting rose garden, a tidy kitchen garden Mr. McGregor would envy, or contemporary cottage garden for your modern home, we can make it a reality.
We offer remote cottage garden design and planning services for clients out-of-state, and full service design and plant procurement in Maryland, D.C. and Northern Virginia.
Cottage Garden Design
Whimsical. Charming. Eclectic. Our cottage garden designs curate a living art collection that grows more beautiful with every season. Whether you’re inspired by the formal, linear structure of a Cotswold estate, the relaxed charm of a country cottage, or a sleek, contemporary take on cottage style, we bring your vision to life—while creating biodiverse habitats that support pollinators, birds, and wildlife. The result? A garden that’s as stunning as it is sustainable.
Custom Vegetable Garden Design
We make vegetable gardens pure magic—part beauty, part bounty. For children, it’s a wonderland; for butterflies and birds, it’s a bustling habitat. For you, it's an outdoor pantry and aesthetic part of your home.
Whether you imagine a storybook Victorian potager with pea gravel pathways and a trickling fountain, or a sustainable cedar raised bed garden spilling over with herbs and heirloom tomatoes, we’ll design a custom space that's almost too pretty to eat.
Backyard Orchards
Have you ever seen an orchard in bloom? It's something out of a Jane Austen novel. You know. "You have bewitched me mind, body, and soul." (swoon) That's why we love using fruit trees in cottage garden design as edible landscaping! If you're pining for a formal orchard laden with ripe fruit, we'll help you plan it to not only accommodate the best varieties but also bring in classic architectural elements like espalier, too! Food and fashion—the ultimate flex.
Wildlife Ponds
Wildlife ponds are the perfect complement to your yard and gardens. They provide essential food, water, shelter, and breeding habitat for beneficial wildlife. These ponds also offer captivating “slow TV,” where you can watch birds bathing, tadpoles swimming, and aquatic plants thriving. If that sounds as thrilling to you as it does to us, then you're our kind of people. Adding a water source is one of the steps you need to qualify your yard as a Certified Wildlife Habitat®—something we love our clients to do!
Meadowscaping
Thanks to Maryland law, now any homeowner can convert grass to meadow! Even HOAs can’t prevent you from doing so. (Take that, Karens!) We’ll help you create a dreamy meadow that begs to be twirled through in a flowery dress. You’ll love the fresh cut flowers, low maintenance, and reduction of mowing costs. Not to mention, the diverse wildlife you'll see flock to your yard.
Native Garden Design
In addition to our permaculture practices, we design 100% native landscapes in the cottage garden style! We love our native landscaping projects because they allow us to design gardens that provide food and beauty for your family, and essential habitat and foraging territory for our native animals and insects. If you need help with native garden planning in Maryland or virtually, just ask!
Homestead Planning
If you have land, use it! Our homestead planning services utilize every square inch of your yard in an aesthetically pleasing and functional way. You'll be amazed at what we can do with as little as 1/8 acre.
Now that you know what we do...
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Happy Clients Speak for Themselves
“Caroline’s gardens are absolutely breathtaking! The moment I saw her backyard, I knew I needed her magic in my own yard. Planning my own garden has always been so overwhelming—what plants can be next to each other? How far do I space them? What layout should I use?! Caroline takes all that stress away. Not only is her garden functional (number one!), but it is also magazine worthy. She has brought nothing less to my very own yard.”
“Caroline has been instrumental in bringing my vision of “cottage garden” to life at our new home! We wanted a fresh perspective that was somewhere between formal/traditional landscaping, and Caroline struck just the right balance with a thoughtful, elegant, but still playful whole-house design. Her creativity and eye for creating spaces with purposeful visual tension that looks totally unintentional is remarkable and sets her apart from run-of-the-mill “designers.” On top of that, her professionalism, flexibility, and commitment to her clients makes every interaction delightful! I am incredibly grateful to have found her and would recommend her wholeheartedly!!”
“Caroline has an uncanny ability to create magic out of nothing. Her ability to turn something boring into something magical is truly wonderful. Crafting a garden has always felt like an overwhelming task, but Caroline has a way of simplifying it, making it seem attainable. Even fun.”
Your dream garden is just an email away.
Your dream garden is just an email away.
Tell us a bit about your project and goals and we'll get back to you with the next steps!
