Client Location
Montclair, NJ

Year
2025

Background & Goals: The client recently purchased a new home and was experiencing flooding inundation in both the backyard and front. They had an existing swale in the backyard that was full of dirt and not draining. The front yard had run-off from the gutter but was going straight into the street gutter.

Outcome: We cleaned the swale and add more river rock, remove invasive weeds and added native plants that could help pull water down into the soil. We replaced the front cement walkway with a stone permeable walkway, and put in a drain pop-up that goes to the yard, instead of the street gutter.

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A backyard scene showing a patch of soil with small grass and weeds, a white drainpipe attached to a brick wall, a sprinkler hose on the ground, and an outdoor electrical box nearby. In the background, there is a wooden fence, a sidewalk, a grassy lawn, and a residential neighborhood.
A backyard garden with green plants, a tree trunk, a wooden fence, and a brick building with ivy and metal piping.
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Backyard with a stone pathway, a garden with plants and mulch, a wooden fence with a gate, and a stainless steel barbecue grill next to a house with beige siding and brick foundation. A tree with green leaves extends over part of the yard.
A garden pathway made with light gray paving stones, bordered by white decorative pebbles, with plants on both sides and a brick wall on the left.
Backyard garden with trees, shrubs, a wooden fence, a brick house with a staircase and deck, and a grassy lawn.
A backyard garden with a large tree, a wooden fence, various plants, and a small patch of grass with sunlight and shadows.

Client Location
Bloomfield NJ

Year
2025

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Background & Goals: The client’s front yard had dead ilex bushes and was generally a ecological dead-zone. They wanted to replace the bushes with native bushes and add in native flowers. During the survey we noticed that the walkway was cracked and decided to replace it with pavers to match the steps.

Outcome: We replaced the Ilex with native Mountain Laurel and added in a mix of native flowers and non-native, non invasive flowers including Yellow Coneflower (Echinacea), Beebalm (Monarda fistulosa), Tickweed (Coreopsis) . Additionally we provided new sod and replaced the walkway.

A residential street scene with a large leafy tree, leafless bushes, and houses with porches, windows, and siding. Sidewalk, grass, and street are visible.
Front view of a house with a paved walkway leading to the stairs at the entrance, with green grass and bushes on either side, and potted plants on the porch.
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Front yard with flower bed, walkway, and steps leading to the house entrance.
View of a residential front yard with a brick and stone house, including a small porch with steps, potted plants, and black metal railing. A garden with flowers and mulch is in the foreground. There are trees lining the street, parked cars, and neighboring houses visible along the street.

Client Location
Bloomfield NJ

Year
2025

Background & Goals: The client recently purchased the house and wanted to add native plants to the front yard where there was a dead-zone. The client wanted large flowering shade bushes as well as pinks and purples. They were also unhappy with the rounded edging and asked for it to be widened and squared.

Outcome: We added 3 large hybrid hydrangeas in the back that will have large whitish green bulbs when flowering. We included native Tiarella, Echinacea, and Amastonia Eastern Blue and the non-native but non-invasive Astilbe. We widened the planting area and squared it off with a beautiful grey stone. Directly after planting we began to see beautiful yellow butterflies and bees!

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Front yard of a house with a stone exterior and large window. A small garden bed with mulch and bricks borders the grass, a concrete patio in front of the window, and some flags with a garden marker in the mulch.
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Newly planted flower bed with colorful flowers and green plants outside a stone house, stairs with black metal railing leading to front door, parked car in driveway.
A house with a stone exterior, white window frames, and black metal railings on the front stairs. The house number is 40, and there are flower beds with colorful flowers in front of the house, and a driveway to the side.

Client Location
Dickinson, Texas

Year
April 2025

Background & Goals: The client’s yard was struggling aesthetically and ecologically. Add native plants that are compatible with the soil, and the client would like to see texture and movement throughout the seasons. They wanted to see more bees and birds when sitting on their porch.

Outcome: We did some soil remediation by adding in Mushroom Compost to add in microorganisms and enhance drainage. Plants include: Muhly Grass (Muhlenbergia capillaris), Gaura lindheimeri (White & Pink Guara), Coreopsis linifolia (Texas Tick Seed), Salvia azurea (Blue Salvia). The day after we planted we began to see hummingbirds!

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Native Daughter Garden Before planting
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A front yard with lush green grass, a flower bed with various plants, and two cats walking on the sidewalk in the late afternoon sunlight, with a house and trees in the background.
A neatly maintained front yard with a flower bed, a concrete pathway, green grass, trees, and houses in the background. An American flag is mounted on a pole attached to one house.
Native Daughter Garden Salvia Texas Natives
A residential front yard with a gravel sidewalk, green bushes with small red and purple flowers, potted plants with long, spiky leaves, trees, a brick house, and American flags in the background.

Client Location
Brooklyn, NY
Year
April 2020-2023

Background: The garden was under utilized during the pandemic and needed a lot of love. Lindsey Castillo managed many of the garden aspects such volunteer hours, member meetings, member planting days, harvesting and events.

Outcome: Successfully lobbied District 4 to fund GrowNYC for the first time ever. In return, GrowNYC built new beds for the garden. We had 15-20 community garden beds that local members could grow their own organic food. We built a community compost drop off, which was picked up weekly by a local non-profit. Built a children’s garden to be tended by the local kids on the block. Helped secure a $300,000 grant via participatory city funds for installation of water in the garden.
Read article in the Bushwick Daily here.

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A lush vegetable and herb garden in a backyard, with a variety of green plants growing in raised wooden beds, surrounded by trees and residential buildings.
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Raised garden beds with various plants on a backyard garden with trees and a wooden fence in the background.

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