Sweetgum Horticulture offers a full range of landscape design, consultation, and horticultural services. We provide both intimate garden designs and comprehensive property planning, as well as coaching in gardening skills and organic vegetable gardening. We always strive to include playful spaces where children and families can interact with the natural world. An important part of our philosophy is the use of native plants wherever possible, along with sustainable design practices that protect the water, air and soil.

In recent years, Sweetgum Horticulture has joined the movement to reimagine the home landscape as a biodiverse and resilient ecosystem. Our ecologically informed design process creates harmonious and visually compelling landscapes that nurture plants, animals and people alike, while doing our part to mitigate the effects of climate change. We are on a mission to shift the paradigm of conventional landscapes to one of regenerative and functional design, where our clients’ properties become a network of sanctuaries for native plants, pollinators and songbirds.

We work hard care to create outdoor spaces that honor our clients’ emotional connection to the natural world and reflect their personal expression, while harmonizing with the architecture of their home and the setting of the neighborhood. Our design principles are guided by the long-term sustainability of a garden, with an eye towards reducing ongoing inputs and labor, and thus maintenance costs. While every garden is a unique mosaic of plantings and functional spaces, we set our sights on composing gardens that draw on our deep horticultural knowledge and ecological ethic, as well as the attentive artistry at the core of our work.