OUR WLDFLORA STORY - 20+ years of design build experience

There’s a moment we’re always chasing. It’s late afternoon. The light softens. Someone opens the back door and the house spills into the garden — laughter, bare feet, music drifting out, maybe a dog weaving through chairs. A table is set under trees. Kids disappear into a hideout they built themselves. Someone cuts a handful of flowers for the kitchen counter. The air smells like herbs and warm stone. That feeling — that seamless merging of indoors and out — is where WLDflora lives.

For more than 20 years, I’ve been designing and building landscapes, gardens, water features, stonework, and wood structures. What started as a love of the outdoors became a life’s work: shaping spaces where people can gather, grow, celebrate, rest, and remember. Over time, WLDflora has become more than a landscape practice. It’s a philosophy about how we live on the land — and how the land lives with us.

A Philosophy Rooted in the Outdoors

We believe the garden is not an accessory to a home. It is an extension of it.

A porch becomes a threshold.
A patio becomes a dining room under the sky.
A fire pit becomes a storytelling circle.
A pathway becomes a daily ritual.

We design landscapes that blur boundaries — interior comfort flowing outward into terraces, courtyards, and lawns. Outdoor kitchens that host long dinners. Fireplaces that draw people close in autumn. Water features that quiet the mind. Stone walls that feel like they’ve always belonged there.

We work in native sanctuaries that hum with pollinators and birds, and we work in romantic European-inspired gardens — English borders spilling with flowers, French symmetry and structure, Tuscan terraces warmed by stone and herbs. Whether wild and naturalistic or timeless and formal, the intention is the same: beauty with purpose, elegance with ecology.

Gardens for Families — Especially the Young Ones

We love working with families. Especially families with children. Because children don’t just visit gardens — they claim them. A low branch becomes a lookout post. A tucked-away arbor becomes a secret club. A pollinator bed becomes a science lab. A raised bed becomes responsibility.

There is something profoundly joyful about watching a child grow up in a garden. Cutting flowers for their mom. Gathering herbs with grandma. Building fairy houses. Learning the names of trees. Watching monarchs emerge. Hosting their first backyard movie night as pre-teens. Hanging out around the fire pit as teenagers. Coming home from college and sitting in the same chair under the same tree.

The garden becomes the backdrop to a life.

We design children’s gardens as places of play, imagination, learning, and belonging. Rope swings, treehouses, climbing structures, hidden nooks, edible beds, butterfly corridors — spaces where energy is welcome and curiosity is encouraged. But these aren’t just play spaces. They’re memory-makers.

And when those children grow older? The garden grows with them — becoming the gathering place for friends, celebrations, graduations, and quiet conversations under string lights.

The Art of Gathering

Some of our favorite moments are garden parties.

Long tables layered with flowers from the yard. Lanterns and candlelight. Music drifting through shrubs. Guests wandering paths between courses. A toast near the fountain. Laughter echoing off stone walls.

Native Sanctuaries & Timeless Influence

We are deeply committed to creating landscapes that support the land itself. Native plantings that nourish pollinators. Thoughtful water management. Layered habitats that feel alive in every season. Spaces that are sustainable, resilient, and grounded in place.

And we also honor the traditions that inspire us — English cottage borders, French parterre geometry, Tuscan courtyards layered in stone and texture. These classic influences bring structure and romance, and when paired thoughtfully with native ecology, something magical happens: gardens that feel both rooted and refined.

Wild, but intentional. Elegant, but welcoming.

Built by Hand, Shaped by Experience

For over two decades, I’ve worked with stone, wood, water, and soil — building patios, paths, walls, arbors, pergolas, streams, and ponds. There is a deep satisfaction in shaping materials that will last generations. Craft matters. So does listening.

Every family is different. Every property has its own story. We begin by understanding how you want to live — not just how you want it to look. Morning coffee spot? Evening fire? A place where the kids can run wild but still feel safe? We design from that center.

Why We Do This

Because we believe outdoor spaces change people. They slow us down. They bring us together. They teach patience. They offer beauty without screens. They give children something real to touch, taste, climb, and care for. A well-designed landscape is not just an investment in property. It’s an investment in memory.

At WLDflora, we’re not just creating gardens. We’re creating the places where your life unfolds — season after season, year after year.

And honestly? There’s nothing better than coming back years later and seeing the trees taller, the children older, and the garden still holding it all together.