As an alumni of both University of New Orleans and Southeastern Louisiana University, I received formal education in the visual arts with a focus in filmmaking and animation.

In my role as garden designer, I act as director to a script written by nature and produced by you. Much like a film, gardens are moving works of art which tell their stories over time through the coordination of a diverse and ever-changing cast of characters, using the drama between them to evoke feeling, as scenes change with the seasons.

I was certified in Permaculture Design by Oregon State University and the Permaculture Institute of North America in 2016 and have since become a LDAF licensed landscape horticulturist, and LNPS Native Plant Professional.

My love for gardening and land stewardship began over 20 years ago.

I can’t quite remember if it was the abundance of a single pepper plant in my parents’ “square foot garden” beds, or the summers I spent clearing brush for game trails with my uncle in the Texas hill country. Maybe it was the joy I found in plowing up a field of potatoes one other summer at my great-uncles farm in Virginia.

No… really, I think it must have been the time I knelt alongside my grandmother planting caladiums in her front garden. As I doled out a scoop of bonemeal into each planting hole, she shared how the garden teaches us about life, explaining “we grow, we bloom, and then the blooms fade.” Here, I learned the legacy left by gardeners through plants: “Norma’s Wash Creek Gardenia”, “Grandpa Henry’s Ghost Plant”, a Cherokee rose planted by my uncle on the back fence, and the now enormous trees that he had planted as part of a forestry project for school decades ago. While their human lives have faded away like blooms, their presence can still be felt in those now cherished plants that they left behind.