Garden and Landscape Design for Barnstable County by Second Nature Gardenworks

DESIGNED TO LOVE - DESIGNED TO LAST

shannon@secondnaturegardenworks.com

Dennis Port, MA - 774-487-0021

Your home is your refuge

All of it, inside and out.

You need to feel the sun on your face, the air in your lungs, and the reassurance that everything is going to be alright.

Your landscape does the heavy lifting for you. You go there for comfort, you look out the windows for pleasure, and to gauge the weather, the birds, the neighbor’s activities…whatever it is, your landscape frames it all.

If your landscape could speak, it might say: “Here I am. I’m yours. What happens beyond our world will happen. But we are here now. So join me, and rest.”

Let’s do it.

Let’s create that refuge you’ve been wanting, the beauty you crave, and the peace of mind that comes with knowing you did what you could to make a better world for yourself, and anyone who joins you in it.

I SPEAK PLANT AND PLANTS SPEAK TO ME

I have a deep knowledge of what plants want, how they will inhabit a particular space and what they will look like when they “grow up.” This I have gleaned from my education in botany and landscape design and through almost four decades of working professionally in the field.

My true and deep love for plants makes me a curious, caring, and lifelong student. I have a flair for appropriate and creative plant selection and layout – and this extra effort makes for a landscape that will thrive over time.

I choreograph the dance between the architecture of a space and the artistry of the plant selection. It is a highly integrative approach…and all ties back to you and what makes the landscape uniquely yours.

TIMELESS QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE

I love it when clients tell me decades after an installation that they still love their landscape. This is timeless quality in action!

I think of a garden more as a stage than a canvas – because it is a living story with plants and garden accents both as lead characters and props. Like a playwright, I deliberate and even agonize over the right plant combinations from a health, visual and experiential viewpoint.

The plant combinations are like characters that move you and others through the story of the garden.

There often is a tug-of-war between the current and future conditions, aesthetics, and needs of the landscape that evolve over time – because plants grow and change! This is especially true in newer gardens where finding a balance between instant gratification and longer-term rewards can be challenging.