Responsive Gardens

Your Path to a Beautiful, Functional, and Sustainable Garden

  • Garden Vision

    The garden vision pulls together the garden goals, garden design style, and site inventory and analysis.…

  • Site Inventory and Analysis

    Developing a good understanding of your garden through a detailed inventory and analysis of the site.…

  • Garden Goals

    Learn about your goals, desires, and needs, and create the program/design brief for the site that…

  • Garden Design Styles

    Garden Design Styles

    What style of garden do you like? You might think of established garden styles like formal…

  • Landscape Plant Lists

    Landscape Plant Lists

    Are you looking for plants? Figuring out a great garden also means understanding plants. Here’s a…

  • What services do I need?

    What services do I need?

    When considering landscape design, most people generally want designs for two reasons: inspiration and construction. Design…

  • Installing the Landscape. What can I DIY?

    Installing the Landscape. What can I DIY?

    Getting sticker shock is common when you get that first landscaping bid. And if you can’t…

  • Why you should hire a garden designer

    Why you should hire a garden designer

    A good landscape design leads to loving your landscape and loving gardening.

  • FAQ: Clover Lawn

    FAQ: Clover Lawn

    Lots of people have shown an interest in a clover lawn. I have had one for…

  • Vegetable Planning Guide

    Vegetable Planning Guide

    The Vegetable Planning Guide is a resource designed for easy planning in the garden. This table…