Custom Landscape Designs, Planting, and Horticultural Consulting in Vermont

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Behind the Gardening Gloves

Susie is a certified landscape, garden designer, and horticulturalist through the Royal British Academy of Garden Design. She is an artist who has worked with nationwide clientele as well as in Vermont garden and nursery centers and conservatories since 1995.

Artistic Landscapes & Garden Design Services


Custom Design

Susie customizes every design to suit your needs, lifestyle and aesthetic preferences to form a design vision.  She creates functional and aesthetic spaces by blending her artistic visions with horticultural expertise.


Four-Season Design

Susie selects trees, shrubs, perennials and native plants to add year-round color and variety to your garden spaces. 


Pollinator and Naturalistic Gardens

Ecologically complex gardens mimic the structure of wild habitats to increase biodiversity.


Garden Establishment and Maintenance

Vermont Garden Design establishes the foundational phases of site preparation, installation of infrastructures and plant selections.


Container Gardens

Container gardening is an ideal method for adding life and color to balconies, decks, and steps, strategically positioned containers around gardens, concealing empty spaces, and forming natural "fences."


Interior Plant Designs and Landscapes

VGD enhances indoor spaces with greenery to improve aesthetics and air quality.   We design, install and maintain plantscapes.

Our Services

Client Reviews

  • 5 Star Review

    "I Have A Blue Garden!"

    I wished a blue garden were possible, and now have a lovely one.  As the garden matures, so does our enjoyment of it throughout the year. Susie brought back my gardens!

    E. Hazen

  • Five Star Review Vermont Garden Design

    "A Talented, Professional Gardener."

    I have known Susie professionally for twenty years. She is an extremely talented, professional gardener with whom I have worked on several projects. Susie takes her work very seriously but revels in the art and joy of the process. I always tell clients that they are in excellent hands with Susie. She is easy to be with, very accommodating and flexible.  Susie truly wants what is best for her clients.

    P. Hudson, Landscape Architect/ Architect

  • Five Stars

    "What I would do without her!?"

    “ I have known Susie for five years, she is wonderful!  She’s a lovely person and knows so much about plants. Susie helps with everything: cleanups. maintenance, planting perennials, planting annuals in the gardens containers.  She always knows exactly what to do!  

    Susie is very helpful and kind, and I always enjoying chatting with her.  I don’t know what I would do without her! 

    LouAnn C. — Williston

  • "A Living Masterpiece!"

    A dedicated and hard-working garden designer with a unique blend of education, certifications, knowledge, experience, and amazing artistic talent that can be enjoyed for generations!

    James Mullen

  • "So Creative!"

    Susie is incredibly talented and creative; we loved our gardens before, but she’s taken them to a whole new level. I always can’t wait to see what she comes up with next!

    Phyllis P.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Chittenden, Lamoile, Grand Isle, and Orleans Counties in Vermont.

  • Ideally, we start scheduling in early March. Clients are scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis.

  • Email me here. I will return your email ASAP.

  • Free Initial 15 Minute Phone Consultation - See My Process
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    Email for rates.

  • I am an experienced certified landscape and garden designer with a Master's in Museum Education and Art History. I also hold a BA in Fine Arts.

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