Garden design
Site walk, scaled plan, plant list
A drawn plan for the whole property or one difficult corner. Planting, paths, grading and light worked out on paper first, so the build has no guesswork.
Garden design, stone and care · Concord, MA
Gardens drawn by hand,built in stone,kept by the season.
A small landscape studio in Concord. Maren Holt designs every garden herself, our crew builds it, and we keep tending it long after the last stone is set.
- One designer, start to finish
- Maren walks the site, draws the plan, and is there the day the stone goes down.
- A plan before a shovel
- You see a scaled drawing and a written estimate before any work begins.
- Close to home
- Concord, Carlisle, Lincoln, Sudbury, Acton and Weston. Never more than a short drive.
What we make
Built to look as if it was always there.
Stone terraces and walls
Bluestone, fieldstone, granite
Bluestone terraces, dry-laid fieldstone walls, granite steps. Set on a deep, well-drained base so they stay level through the frost.
Perennial and native planting
Perennials, natives, shrubs, trees
Borders that change all year instead of peaking once. Natives where they belong, for the bees and the birds, and for a garden that asks for less water.
Garden lighting
Paths, steps, trees
Low, warm light on paths, steps and the trees worth seeing at night. Enough to walk safely and sit out late, never enough to light up the neighbors.
Seasonal care
Weekly or monthly care, cleanups
Regular visits from the same small crew: pruning, hand weeding, edging, mulch, and the spring and fall cleanups that keep a garden from sliding back.
Through the seasons
A garden is never finished.It changes with the weather.
Choose a season to see what the garden needs, and what we do about it. It opens on the season you are in.
Spring, march to may
The ground opens.
Beds are cut back and fed, crowded perennials divided, and anything new goes in while the soil is cool and the rain does half the watering.
On the list this season
- Spring cleanup and cutting back
- Dividing and moving perennials
- New planting while the soil is cool
- Edging beds, fresh mulch
How a garden begins
It starts with a walk around the yard.
I
The walk
Maren comes out and walks the property with you. How you use the yard, where the sun sits at six o'clock, what you want to see from the kitchen window.
II
The plan
A scaled drawing, a plant list and a written estimate. We revise it together until it is right. Nothing is built until you say so.
III
The build
The crew sets the stone, grades and plants. Maren is on site for the moments that decide how it looks: the stone layout and the planting day.
IV
The keeping
A new garden takes a few seasons to settle. We stay on for care visits, so it grows into the plan instead of away from it.
Kind words
We had a slope nobody wanted to touch. Maren drew it as two terraces and a stair, and now it is where we eat dinner from May to October.
She asked what we wanted to see from the kitchen window. Nobody had ever asked us that. The whole plan was built around the answer.
The tidiest fall cleanup I have seen. They left the coneflowers standing for the finches, and told me why.
Enquire
Show us the space.
A few phone photos and a line or two about what you would like from it are plenty. Maren will look them over and call to set up a garden walk.
- Call
- (978) 555-0187
- Studio
- Concord, MA
- Towns
- Concord, Carlisle, Lincoln, Sudbury, Acton, Weston