Plan-it Earth Design

We worked with Amy to design our backyard garden. She transformed a rectangle with grass into a beautiful space with flowers, a fountain and a rain garden. Amy was a pleasure to work with and her design and knowledge skills turned our lawn into this beautiful garden.

We are very grateful to have met Amy at her Naturescape and Rain Garden workshops and she designed our small yard for us and picked out and placed the plants. She transformed our formerly plain and ugly yard into a lush rain garden with a boardwalk deck and flowering plants specially chosen to attract hummingbirds, bees and butterflys. Our yard feels like we're at a vacation resort. Every day I silently thank Amy for her vast knowledge and creativity. She works magic!

Watching my yard transform from uninteresting patches of grass to an array of beautiful plants, was the most enjoyable experience I have had in years. Of course, it began by sitting with Amy Whitworth and, under her guidance, choosing plant-by-plant what I liked and where it would be placed within the creative pathways she had suggested. I am sure that Amy could have measured my yard, drawn up a plan and had it implemented. However, by guiding me through the process (design) it made me feel that the result was a joint venture and I was invested in the outcome. I have a very small urban yard so plant placement and arbor design, for privacy, were important. Even as the hardscape was being prepared, Amy would be on site to suggest, “tweaks” to optimize the design. I interviewed more than one designer before beginning and know I made the correct choice with Amy

We first met Amy Whitworth of Plan-It Earth Design at a home and garden show where she was offering complimentary 15 minute consultations. What she came up with in response to the design challenges opened up possibilities we'd never considered. We hired her to design a new backyard for us, and subsequently to do design work in our front and side yards; we've now worked together for more than 10 years and we wouldn't consider doing something to the exterior of our house without consulting Amy. We've recommended Amy to many friends and they've all been similarly pleased. Amy came up with brilliant hardscaping and landscaping solutions and supervised installation. She's creative and resourceful, offering ideas at many price points; reliable and professional; easy to work with, and fun!

Found Amy Whitworth and Plan-it Earth Design online when considering some critical adjustments to the back yard of our new-to-us King City home. Spoke with Amy, met for an initial consultation and later created a "design on the fly." "Design on the fly" was fun and full of remarkable details satisfying our stated needs, including reuse of many hardscape materials. The quick design generated a drawing fully suitable for bid and execution. We ended up hiring a well known landscape company to implement the project; it is complete with a stunning result. Amy was available and responsive when we wanted to quickly explore complementary changes to our yard, outside of the design area. I was truly impressed by Amy's skills, experience and earth friendly design style. She was patient, focused, and listened effectively to our wants and needs. We had an interactive working style, which was most appreciated. I would use her again without hesitation and recommend her to others.

Amy created a native plant landscape plan for our backyard. She was fun and easy to work with. Almost all of the plants are in the ground and it is truly amazing......it reminds us of the deep forest where we love to spend our free time.

Amy is a garden visionary! She has a fabulous eye AND ear, meaning she was great at listening to my ideas and transforming them into a design that lifts my heart every time I walk outside. I've had so many people stop by my home and ask, "Did YOU do this?" I refer Amy to every one of them. In addition to everything else, she's really fun to have around.

As a designer Amy brought a creative and functional focus to the renovation of my 1960’s home landscape that included the replacement of concrete hardscape access to the home and garden & lawn renovation. She conscientiously integrated my priorities, preferences, and the challenging conditions of the landscape while utilizing her design skills & experience and outstanding knowledge of plants to create various gardens that now surround my home. The low maintenance gardens offer seasonal colors, a variety of foliage textures, and points of interest created by unusual specimen plants and a water feature. These gardens along with the paths and cozy sitting area encourage year around enjoyment. Amy was generous with her knowledge of resources for contractors and shopping needs. She provided detailed information about plants, including maintenance information, to guide the ongoing development of these gardens. Amy’s ability to collaborate with colleagues & contractors and to teach & guide me was most impressive.

Amy worked with me to create an entirely new garden for my home, including backyard, side, and frontyard. She was very creative in coming up with ways to make the whole landscape flow from front to back, she was flexible and patient in dealing with my many ideas and questions (I'm a hands-on type of client), and most important, she listened. She heard what I wanted and what I didn't want. Also, I was aiming to get Audubon Backyard Native Habitat-certified, which happened without a hitch--her design earned us "gold" certification. In addition, Amy went over and beyond the job at hand by advising me on the potted plants on my deck, which were not in the overall plan and which I handled myself--benefiting greatly from her guidance. She was a pleasure to work with. A real professional with a personal touch. I love my garden and know how to maintain the individual plants due to a maintenance chart she supplied after job completion.