Carpinteria, CA Landscape Architects and Designers

For over 45 years, Chris and Lisa Cullen, owners of Montecito Landscape have been creating beautiful gardens in Santa Barbara, Montecito, Malibu and beyond. The earth is our canvas and landscape design is our passion. We bring the unique character of Montecito to life in every garden. As design/build contractors, we design and install landscapes with our own crew of highly skilled artisans. Call for a Free Home Garden Consultation, where we assess your property's assets and incorporate those assets when designing the landscape. Chris is a trained arborist and graduated from the Sarasota Horticulture Foundation. He has the ability to see what others don't because he takes in the entire space when envisioning a property's potential and with his 45+ years as a contractor, he knows what works. But in the end, we are designing for our clients, for you. A landscape, a garden is a place to experience, enjoy and celebrate the beauty of outdoor living. We call that filling your garden with joy. We look forward to meeting you. Lisa Cullen

Hello! I am Natasha the owner of Sweet Smiling Landscapes. All my life I have had an equal attraction to art and design as well as horticulture leading me to a career in landscape design. While undergoing my course work for a BFA in sculpture at California State University Long Beach, I found constant themes in my work were the human relationship with the outdoor world. I found myself particularly interested in how humans have worked with nature to create a built world outside in the forms of farms and gardens. So, after graduation I followed my interests. I studied permaculture, and then horticulture at Santa Barbara City college (where I now teach Landscape Drafting). I am an EPA-certified Water Wise designer, certified permaculture designer, and certified Green Gardener. Today use my skills as an artist and my knowledge of horticulture to create beautiful, functional and sustainable outdoor spaces. Sweet Smiling Landscapes create outdoor spaces that are as artful as they are ecologically sound. Sustainable landscape design is an opportunity to create gardens that are living pieces of art that serve to improve the local ecology. I am committed to designing gardens that are water-wise and fire-wise. My designs carefully consider ways to blend the wants and needs of my clients with the specifications of their property in each project I undertake. Bringing together the elements of sustainability and natural aesthetics, I design beautiful spaces to allow my clients to fully enjoy the outdoor areas of their home.

Eye of the Day Garden Design Center is a retail showroom that features more than an acre of high quality garden landscape products, including fountains, Italian and Greek terracotta, French Anduze and garden products from America's premier concrete garden pottery and decoration manufacturers. Eye of the Day is a leading importer and distributor of fine European garden pottery, and caters to private consumers and landscape design and architecture firms around the world. To see what Eye of the Day Garden Design Center can do for your business, visit www.eyeofthedaygdc.com.

My design philosophy is that every garden needs to be beautiful, useful and sustainable. My work has included hundreds of gardens in the greater Santa Barbara, Goleta, Montecito and Ventura area since the late 1970s while also helping to educate the public through adult education, master gardener and college classes. Gardens range in style from sleek, lean contemporary style, to Old World traditional, Mediterranean, and uniquely eclectic gardens perfectly suited to the individual client. Range of services from simplest to more involved: • One-time consultation to stimulate new ideas and introduce a more sustainable approach. • Planting design quick sketches and generating plant lists for owners to select from on their own. • Guided plant shopping trips, wholesale purchasing and final placement • Site planning and planting design drawings for installation by owner or contractor Typical clients include those with “tired” existing landscapes in need of a planting facelift and those seeking to re-imagine their outdoor spaces. With the ongoing concern for water savings, many projects include lawn removal and replacement with water-conserving gardens and creating new spaces for outdoor living. I also provide garden “staging” services for clients preparing to put their house up for sale. Many clients have on-going “works in progress” where we start with a general master plan and gradually tackle sections of their yard to achieve a coherent finished product.

Paul Hendershot Design, Inc. is a landscape company that works closely with the client in creating gardens that emphasize the classic approach to landscape design. Great care is taken to unite the architecture of the home with that of the property and expanded views.

We are the #1 luxury landscape design firm in Montecito, Hope Ranch and Santa Barbara.

Landscape Design, Landscape Plans, Garden Restoration and Consultation, Professional Garden Planning, Hardscape design, Santa Barbara, California

Specializing in contemporary and native plant design.

Landscape Design and Planning

We are a design, installation and maintenance landscape contracting firm specializing in all aspects of Landscape Design and Build! When you invite Green Goddess Gardens into your garden, you are taking an active part in preserving our precious “planted” Earth. You will find yourself marveling and interacting daily with your new outdoor world. Our extensive knowledge of water-wise plant material and efficient irrigation systems guarantee the viability of a landscape despite the probability of reduced water resources. We use organic methods whenever possible promising a vibrant, non-toxic outdoor environment. Simple water catchment systems are encouraged to capture precious rainfall along with Permiculture methods and soil building Biology creating better water holding capacity in your soil. Beautiful plant combinations of color, texture and aroma are our forte. We specialize in naturalistic landscapes and, with our broad horticultural background, we create beautiful gardens within any theme. We integrate your needs and wishes with the possibilities and limitations of your unique property. Our dedicated installation and maintenance crews ensure continuous attention and support.

Robert Andrew Fowler Landscape Architect is a professional firm, State of California - Dept. of Consumer Affairs licensed firm, providing Design & Consulting Services in the Santa Barbara & Central Coast areas. With almost Thirty years of experience, Robert has developed the unique ability to provide an overall Creative Vision that can incorporate a wide range of Garden Styles and can compliment any Architectural Theme and/or Site Environment.

DIGITAL DESIGN IDEAS & SERVICES... 2D Photo-Realistic Images, 3D Models & "Fly-Through" Animations, or bird's-eye-view Landscape and Hardscape Site Plans.... Not limited by location... Work remotely, or locally. HOMEOWNERS: "Picture Your Yard" - See what landscape and hardscape changes could look like on actual photos of your own yard, *before* construction begins. These images become both a composite vision of your outdoor wish-list items and a communication tool to help contractors "see" what *you* want created to enhance curb appeal or expand outdoor living space. CONTRACTORS: "Picture A Project" - Show a Residential Hardscape or Landscape project's possibilities on photos of a customer's yard. Include specific manufacturer paver styles, textures and colors from around the country and specific to your local area (for example, Belgard, Angelus, Orco, Unilock, Techo-Bloc, etc. ) and other horizontal or vertical surfaces such as Decorative Concrete, Decking, Vener Stone, and more. Website: www.djsquiredesigns.com Houzz Website: www.pictureyouryard.com 3D Animation Video: On Vimeo: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://vimeo.com/djsquiredesigns/videos">https://vimeo.com/djsquiredesigns/videos</a> Or YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/DJSquireDesigns/videos

Lynn founded Lynn C. Johnson Associates in 1986. Once Lynn took her first horticulture class at UC Davis, she fell in love with plants. The combination of working with plants and designing outdoor spaces provided the perfect creative outlet and career opportunity for Lynn - landscape architecture. Lynn starts the conceptual design process by taking existing site plans and meeting with the client to gather the most information possible. From there, she begins with loose sketches of designs and ideas. She takes a collaborative approach and presents initial sketches to her clients - sometimes a few times - taking what they like or don't like and making changes. Once she and her client arrive at a design, Lynn finalizes the conceptual landscape plan. From there, she creates the construction documents, which may include a planting plan that specifies the quantity, size, and type of every plant, an irrigation plan, a lighting plan, a hardscape plan, construction details which can include walkways, fences, gates, pools, outdoor kitchens, patios, fireplaces; and details and specifications. Lynn will refer contractors and partake in project administration to ensure that last minute changes are made and quality is maintained. Lynn loves the creative process and the opportunity to develop spaces that have a positive effect on people. She has special training in therapeutic garden design so that she can help clients find tranquility, healing, or whatever they need in their new garden spaces. Ultimately, Lynn wants her clients to be happy and proud of their new spaces.

Charles McClure grew up in Southern California in the 60s and 70s. When he was young, his family hired a landscape architect to design their residential grounds that included indoor/outdoor patio living and swimming. He spent many hours at the famous Descanso and Huntington Gardens. His mother introduced him to the concept that some outdoor spaces are actually designed by people and that often makes them much more enjoyable live in and look at. McClure went on to study at Cal Poly SLO, receiving a BS in Landscape Architecture and he was the first in his class to obtain licensure in 1989. He has worked in Beverly Hills, Palm Springs, Westlake Village and Santa Barbara. When we refer to landscape, we are referring to outdoor space and all of the elements contained in it, not just plantings. The landscape architect is responsible for the well being of everyone who enters his designed spaces. Elements are selected with this in mind. Vertical elements can excite, horizontals calm. Color draws attention. Ever consider why the Japanese garden is associated with calm and relaxation? It's because these gardens are filled with horizontal lines, some cut into the tree canopies, and color is limited or non existent. Interest is gained by contrasting shades of green together as well as varying textures. Water is used in a very natural way. Contrast that with a Las Vegas-style fountain. It is fascinating to consider that design has the power to effect people’s lives so profoundly.When we refer to landscape, we are referring to outdoor space and all of the elements contained in it, not just plantings.

Arcadia Studio is a community of individuals inspired by nature and devoted to creating beauty and meaning through landscape design. We specialize in innovative landscape design, landscape planning and urban design. Our work strives to understand the nature of our connection to the landscape, and to create designs that are beautiful, sustainable and evocative. Our primary mission is to thoughtfully enhance the site and the architecture, whether in a traditional manner or in a way that steps outside that which is familiar.