Services Overview

My design approach is artistic, intuitive, and practical. I listen for what compels my clients then draw from my professional experience to realize their vision. I offer full service residential and commercial landscape architecture and garden design:

• Conceptual design
• Master planning
• Construction documentation: full plan sets suitable for competitive bidding including planting plans, irrigation plans, site plans, grading/drainage plans, specifications, and construction details
• Informal/simplified plans for those who will do construction themselves or who have already selected an installer/contractor.
• Low Impact Development design
• Shade structures, gates, fountains, boulder placement, paving, and children’s play areas
• Repurposing and recycling existing on-site materials and found objects
• Environmental art
• Thematic gardens: sensory gardens, children’s gardens, meditation gardens, butterfly/bird gardens, color gardens and more
• Drainage and slope issues
• Construction observation

Front Yard Evolution Package:

Sample Front Yard Evolution Plan

Ready to transform your front lawn into a sustainable garden that reflects your personality, but not sure how to begin?  The Front Yard Evolution Package gives you the information and support you need:

• Two hour landscape design consultation to discuss your garden dreams, brainstorm, and sketch ideas that I will refine into your Front Yard Evolution Plan.
• Front Yard Evolution Plan showing the location of new features including paths, shade structures, decks, fencing, walls, boulders, art, and plants with the botanical and common name of each plant.  All plants are selected from my Evolutionary Heroes list of plants indigenous to Butte County and edible perennials that are offered by local nurseries.  Your Front Yard Evolution Plan will be hand drawn to scale.
• Maintenance instructions for all new plants.
• Step by step instructions for removing your lawn using Solarizing, a simple, economical way to kill existing lawns without chemicals.
• Irrigation schematic showing the location and irrigation method of each hydrozone zone.  Take this schematic to Chico Sprinkler to receive a free detailed irrigation plan with purchase of a complete package of irrigation supplies.
• Take your Front Yard Evolution Plan to Floral Native Nursery in Chico to receive one free plant for every $100 that you spend with them.
• Free subscription to the Eve’s Garden newsletter: gardening tips, plant profiles, musings.
• Join our growing community of Front Yard Evolutionaries who are transforming their front yards into beautiful, lively, edible and native gardens.  Join us to swap ideas, celebrate harvests, and more.
• Price is just $300 for most front yards if you supply a base drawing of your front yard that is drawn to scale and shows the house, driveway, street/sidewalk, existing trees, and any other structures; price is $350 if we do the base drawing.  Front yards of lots larger than ¼ acre may cost more.

Consulting:

Looking for ideas for creating inviting, eco-minded, artsy gardens?  Consulting services are available on an hourly basis.