Phillip Farris.
Landscape designer and coach — curating lasting gardens for clients to build a life in.
I started this practice because I kept seeing landscapes that were technically finished yet emotionally empty. They had plants and were tidy — but nothing about them felt rooted in the people who lived there or the land they sat on.
My work is vision led, ecologically grounded, and built one project at a time. I take a small number of projects each season, design them carefully, and take a hands-on approach to the installation.
The landscapes that result are made to age — to look better in year ten than they did the day we finished. That means choosing plants for what they'll become, not what they look like at the nursery. It means thinking about the canopy you'll have, not the one you do. And it means staying involved long enough to watch a planting come into itself, which usually takes three to five years.
I work mostly with owners who plan to live in their gardens for a long time — people who want to make the land better than they found it, and who are willing to give it the years it takes to do that right.
If that sounds like the way you'd like to steward your land, let's talk.