The Art of Landscape

In terms of hardscape design and plants, Jane deserves 10 out of 5 stars. We really enjoyed her plans for sprucing up our backyard. The final product was even better than we expected. It's clear she has a wealth of experience in designing lots of different areas, and a thorough knowledge on plants that will both look nice, and thrive in the setting. You will be very pleased by the designs and recommendations she has. For homeowners specifically - you will want to coordinate with you, the vendor you use for planting/hardscapes, and Jane early in the process. This will ensure the best use of time for both Jane and the contractor (lowering your costs). But as you will see from her designs, Jane has excellent ideas that will result in a lasting improvements!

We engaged Jane to transform our landscape into a Japanese garden, and she exceeded our expectations. With her exceptional artistic vision and project management skills, she brought our dream to life. We are thrilled with the results and eagerly anticipate the arrival of spring and summer to fully enjoy our new landscape.

The landscape design that Jane Luce brought to life in our backyard is the work of an artist/magician/expert/pragmatist. Jane treated our yard as an artist's canvas, and she turned an eyesore into a true masterpiece of nature, while remaining very mindful and respectful of our budget. She was super pro-active about keeping the contractors on schedule and on target, and she went over and above to make sure the stress and complications inherent in a large project such as ours took place "behind the scene" as much as possible. Her decades of experience make her a true expert in knowing what plants will thrive in what locations. She takes into account what the yard will look like in all seasons and over the years. The passion Jane has for her work was truly contagious, because the one downside is that I am now totally obsessed with my yard!!!

I've had the pleasure of hiring Jane Luce to design two landscape projects. The first was a small stone planting bed in the front of my town home. The work was impeccable from design to implementation. The Autumn Moon Japanese Maple that I bought at her suggestion is absolutely gorgeous and makes my home look quite elegant. She also designed a beautiful planting for the small hill behind my town home. The variety of plant colors and textures makes that space so beautiful to look at. Visitors to my home always comment on how nice it looks and I always give Jane full credit. I highly recommend Jane for any landscape project - large or small.

What we first appreciated about Jane Luce as a landscape designer was her real gift in balancing the creation of a beautiful celebration of Nature with a very comfortable, people-friendly, outdoor living area. We were lucky to have a front row seat to watch as she did this in our next door neighbors' backyard, and we got so inspired we invited her to take on the tough challenges of our own yard to see what she could do with it. The result is simply spectacular. Guests are always amazed at the sheer scale and bold natural drama of it as well as the beautiful well-integrated diversity of the plantings so they inevitably ask " What do you mean this was all brought in...? Wasn't most of this already here? " Jane is simply an artist at what she does. She sees big challenges as opportunities for achieving something even more outstanding. She brings together a strong professional team of equally talented professionals to help her achieve this. And then she guides the whole huge process with a clear artistic vision and a warm sense of collaboration to arrive at the best overall joint product. The whole process and the final result were both equally impressive. We highly recommend Jane Luce, and consider her our personal "landscape guru".

" I have known Jane Luce for over twenty years and I have always been impressed to see how she seems to create beauty and grace in everything she does. This is especially true with her landscapes, where her innate attunement to nature is deeply grounded by many years of practical and structural experience in creating these wonderfully full, vibrant landscapes that feel like true sanctuaries.... for both Nature and the human beings who live there.”

A Transformation Beyond our Dreams ! We live on a beautiful wooded knoll, high above a watershed creek winding its way to the Potomac River. It is a gorgeous home site, but we had very little space to entertain or hang out outdoors comfortably, so we hired Jane Luce as our designer to help us create the outdoor living space we wanted, .... without losing any of the wonderful wild beauty that attracted us to live here. We loved working with Jane because she has wonderful artistic vision grounded with her long practical experience from 15 years of project installations. Since she has such a deep passion for and commitment to her work, she constantly exceeded our expectations every step of the way -- from the design process, all the way through the big dramatic install. Coming home each day, it was exciting to see the project progress and the landscape literally changing before our eyes. Then it all came together so beautifully in the end with all of Jane’s final artistic touches. It was amazing and we feel so fortunate to have had Jane’s inspiration, passion, and dedication to bring it to life! In fact, with our beautiful waterfall and stone terracing we have created the perfect habitat for us and all our favorite creatures too as attested to by the greater diversity of wild creatures that now live here with us. And we get to enjoy them much more "up close and personal " now. There are more birds, butterflies, dragonflies, blue tailed skinks, tadpoles, frogs.... It's a real ' You build it, they will come ' story .... Our home is literally humming with life now, ..... theirs and ours .... and we absolutely love it! "

We hired Jane to landscape our new house. She had designed the landscape for our front yard, back yard and designed our patio. Our yard is beautiful. People actually come up to the door to compliment us and ask who did it. We have been working with Jane for the last five years, and she is a joy to work with.

Jane Luce is the first landscape designer I have met who has both the artistic eye and knowledge of plants and stonework to help me bring my garden of Eden to fruition. She has helped me design and install a Japanese hillside garden with a 40 foot rock river, a spa with a waterfall surrounded by a rock garden, an outdoor kitchen design including all counter and appliance specifications, a large vegetable garden with rock walls, and the plantings of several large beds around koi ponds and a conifer garden. Her ability to quickly produce 3D pen & ink sketches to scale or photo-shop actual trees/plants or whole outdoor rooms onto an actual picture of my backyard takes all the risk out of making sure you get what you want. Her formal art education and ability also provides an excellent eye for integrating color, texture, and architectural form throughout the landscape design. She is the best choice for anyone who is looking to install an extraordinary sanctuary at their home. She is easy to work with, has great attention to detail, and will see every phase through from conceptual design to project completion. There is no reason to go anywhere else for exceptional and unique landscape design as well as quality customer service.

We hired Jane Luce to design a backyard living space and upgrade and redesign the front yard. Working with Jane has been and continues to b e a pleasure. We started working with Jane in 2011 and continue to seek her expertise as our spaces mature. She created original outdoor spaces that are customized to our lifestyle and personality. Moreover, she collaborated with us throughout the design process from concept to completion offering us different cost options and different phases of the overall design plan. Always professional, upbeat and detail oriented, she transformed our drab, unusable outdoor space into a work of art that we enjoy every single day. We couldn't be happier.