About My Work  

I design gardens that celebrate plants and the connections they offer between people and nature. Current projects in the design and/or fundraising stages include the new Santa Fe Botanical Garden; the Children’s Garden at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas; the Discovery Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York; the Therapeutic Garden at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens in Alabama; and the John C. Wister Rhododendron Garden at Tyler Arboretum in Media, Pennsylvania. Since 2001 I’ve been working with staff at Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, in Delaware, on the ongoing restoration of the Winterthur garden.

My design for the Tropical Mosaic Garden, at the Naples Botanical Garden in Florida, was honored with the Gold Medal Award from the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD). Peirce’s Woods at Longwood Gardens received a Design Merit Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects, and I received the national Award of Distinction from the APLD for my work on three public garden projects: Enchanted Woods at Winterthur, Peirce’s Woods, and the Meadow Maze at Tyler Arboretum.

I lecture frequently at botanic gardens, design conferences and horticultural symposia, including the annual meetings of the American Public Garden Association, the Association of Professional Landscape Designers, and the American Society of Landscape Architects. Advocating greater interest among landscape architects for public spaces that focus on plants and horticulture, I serve on the ASLA Education Advisory Committee, and am developing an ASLA Professional Practice Network on Plants and Planting Design. Formerly an Associate Professor of Landscape Design at the University of Delaware, I have also served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Texas.