I don’t work like other garden and landscape companies that are light on design and big on large, expensive hardscaping installations using the same manufactured materials on repeat.

Instead, I:

• Help you create a garden design that “feels like you”

• Encourage you to work in bite-sized project phases

• Offer design packages tailored to only the amount of support you want and need (I’ve got you, fellow DIYers!)

I offer several garden design packages tailored to the level of support you want.

If you don’t see a design package that fits your specific needs, let’s talk about it during our 15 minute initial consultation. No two gardens are alike, after all.

NOTE: Only rarely do I complete the planting installation myself. That said, I’m always happy to refer clients to people I’d trust to plant in my own garden.

You’ll experience my collaborative nature as well as my honesty and straightforwardness. I pride myself on always giving people I care about my candid input.

Emphatic yes. I consider and prioritize sustainability in all of my recommendations to others and in my own gardening decisions. This includes weighing specific plant selections, hardscape materials, irrigation needs, and products used to treat pests and disease.

Yes! While I’m not an absolutist on native plantings, I use as many as I can in my own garden and strongly recommend that others lean on them too. That said, we will walk through some important nuances when we work together. For example, people define “natives” in vastly different ways, and some natives are actually rather aggressive and probably not ideal for residential landscapes. (Think: Virginia Creeper.) I’ll help you weigh the pros and cons of various plant selections with eco-friendliness front of mind.

Yes. I’m a firm believer that if keeping your garden going requires constant supplemental watering, you’ve chosen the wrong plants, the wrong planting sites, or both.

I design gardens that, once established, can hold their own through periods of heat and drought. That is, after all, what we deal with in the Mid-Atlantic region and in many other parts of the country.

I will gladly make referrals to other creators, artisans, and small business owners like me. I always do my best to support small businesses.

I consciously choose not to use AI to generate my designs. And I’m confident you’ll be happy that I don’t when you see my deliverables. The design will reflect you and how you interact with your space.

My landscape plans sometimes use 2D or 3D tools to help me translate the ideas we’ve discussed into a visualized format.

At A Mum Who Gardens, technology facilitates projects. but it’s you and I working together that generates the best designs.

For my own garden, yes. But gardens are deeply personal spaces, and I can appreciate the beauty of multiple styles.

That said, there are some aesthetic commonalities that you’ll see across most of my design plans:

• Strong preference for natural materials over manufactured ones. Think stacked flagstone instead of interlocking blocks and cedar wood fencing instead of white vinyl.

• A‍ healthy mixture of structure and wildness in plantings.

• Mixed borders and hedges. Think a combination of beautiful evergreens of varying heights and hues instead of a wall of green giant arborvitae.

• Garden zones or garden rooms. I’m always driving toward the garden being an experience and creating a sense of mystery or having an element of surprise.

There’s always beauty in helping others create the garden that reflects them.

Yes, happy to share that I do. Please check out my Etsy store where I’m building out my garden-inspired inventory.

I’m creating various resources and vlog style content on YouTube and Instagram that I hope will be informative to clients.

That said, if you or your organization are interested in learning about a specific topic, let’s talk about it. Please reach out via the Contact page.

Getting started is simple. Reach out through the Contact page, and we’ll schedule your free 15 minute consultation. I’ll walk you through next steps and answer your questions while we get to know each other.

General questions? You can fill out the contact form for those too.