The studio
Small studio, long memory
Verdant & Co. has been one team since 2009: designers, builders and gardenkeepers who answer to the same name. The person who draws your garden presents it, prices it with the crew who will build it, and shows up at every milestone.
The people
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Margot Ellison
Principal & Design Director
Founded Verdant & Co. in 2009 after a decade in landscape architecture studios. Margot still walks every prospective property herself and draws the first line of every master plan.
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Priya Raman
Senior Landscape Designer
Leads concept work and the studio's 3D studies. Priya's superpower is grade: she can hide a metre of fall in a garden you'd swear was flat.
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Tomás Herrera
Build Director
Twenty-two seasons of building gardens. Tomás prices every proposal from our own drawings and holds the schedule like it's a promise, because it is.
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Daniel Osei
Master Mason
Setts, dry-laid walls, floated bluestone: Daniel leads the stone crew behind Stonebridge Arrival and most of the granite in this portfolio.
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Sofia Marchetti
Head of Horticulture
Writes every planting plan's plant schedule and personally inspects nursery stock before it ships. If a tree isn't good enough, Sofia sends it back. Twice, famously.
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Ewan Craig
Gardenkeeping Manager
Runs the maintenance studio and its seasonal calendars. Ewan's team are horticulturists first. The pruning is architecture; the editing is design.
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Noah Bennett
Project Manager
Your single point of contact from excavation to reveal. Noah writes the Friday site reports clients tell us they forward to their parents.
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Lena Kowalski
Studio & Client Experience
First voice on the phone, keeper of the studio calendar, and the person who makes sure your walk-through happens this month, not next quarter.
House rule: the cameras point at the gardens. Initials will have to do.
Our crews, not brokers
The hands that build it are ours
Masonry, carpentry, planting and lighting run in-house: fourteen field people across two crews, most of them here five seasons or more. It's why our proposals can be fixed-price, our schedules can be promises, and our guarantees can run as long as they do.
Who you'll meet, stage by stage
No project is handed down a ladder. These are the people who stay with your garden from the first phone call to the seasons after the build.
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01 · The walk-through
Lena Kowalski books it; a principal designer walks it with you.
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02 · Concept and master plan
Your designer draws it; Sofia writes every plant schedule.
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03 · Proposal and permits
Tomás prices the plan with the crew who will build it.
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04 · The build
Noah runs the site and the Friday reports; Daniel leads the stone.
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05 · Every season after
Ewan's gardenkeepers look after the garden on its own calendar.
How the studio began, and what we won't compromise on, is on the About page.
Begin here
Walk your garden with the person who will design it
Ninety unhurried minutes with a principal designer. Honest budget bands, no obligation, and a written summary either way.