Our Philosophy : Right Plant, Right Place
We aim to use landscaping to create a specific mood.
Gardens and naturalized landscapes are alluring, peaceful, and immersive experiences. We view every revitalized landscape as an opportunity to reconnect humans with nature. Our landscaping goals are to be ecologically productive and elevate the natural beauty through native flora while creating an engaging sensory experience.
We specialize in pairing garden designs and plantings with the specific history of your home or business. Whether you are seeking a simple, low maintenance compliment to your home, or a sprawling, historically accurate kitchen garden, our skills can match your needs.
For instance, if you would like to restore a more natural look to your property, create a productive edible landscape, or ditch the grass and make a meadow, we can provide the design and maintenance plan, to ensure that your needs are met in a sustainable fashion.
We commonly work with challenging landscapes. If areas of your property are too wet, too dry, too sunny, or too shady, we can design attractive plantings to take advantage of these conditions, without heavy handed and costly intervention.
Who We Are
Anna is an Ethnobotanist with a background in Anthropology and Herbal Medicine. She has 7 years experience in Historical Horticulture and a lifetime of gardening. Ravenous for learning experiences, she is continually growing the vast knowledge of plants, plant medicine, and historic landscapes. Her personal goal is to enhance humanity’s experience of beauty and pleasure through reconnection with the natural world.
Ross developed a love of plants as a young boy, when he would collect and dry various plants to create “potions”, and enjoyed nibbling on “onion grass” from the front yard. He delighted in learning how food could be grown from the soil. He studied philosophy at the College of New Jersey, with a concentration in environmental ethics. His thesis focused on the importance of land stewardship in agriculture, arguing against an extraction based model and promoting more holistic methods that integrate animal husbandry with crop production. Shortly after graduation, he began getting his hands dirty, working for an organic landscaping company, growing his own vegetables, and designing gardens for private clients.
Ross met Anna at Washington Crossing Historic Park, where he was hired as an assistant historical horticulturalist, and later took on the responsibility of Farmstead Manager. Caring for a flock of historic sheep gave him the opportunity to put into practice his ideas about holistic pasture management and the production of high quality compost to improve the soils in the park’s historic gardens.
Together Anna and Ross designed and implemented a brand new 18th century Kitchen Garden at the site where Washington crossed the Delaware. This was a very rewarding experience, and the positive feedback and genuine interest from the public was the impetus for the pair to start their own business and bring their expertise to other historic sites, homeowners, and anyone seeking to create a garden that transports from the everyday.
A GARDEN IN THYME 