My Offerings
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My horticultural practice is rooted in stewardship. I work closely with the existing vegetation on site, introducing new selections, sourcing from skilled growers, or growing from seed, that is refined over years of experimentation and guided by the terrain and the needs of each place.
Each project becomes part of a shared field across the island, cultivating landscapes that are resilient, enduring, and quietly built to last.
My work spans every ecological meridian, from the dunes through forest, wetlands, and dry meadows, to the bayside, within the landscape of Fire Island Wild
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Site-specific landscape plans rooted in Fire Island’s ecological systems.
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Dune, meadow, wetland, and maritime forest planting designed for coastal resilience.
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Vegetation-based privacy and property edge solutions.
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Design strategies that work with wind exposure, water table, and sand movement.
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Long-term care and adaptive management of evolving landscapes.
About
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I am a certified professional horticulturalist, Brooklyn Botanic Garden with a B.F.A. from Parsons School of Design, and a year-round Fire Island resident. I also serve as a horticultural consultant and project manager with Tillett Lighting Design Associates.
I work across private and public properties, community landscapes, and coastal resilience initiatives—as a consultant, designer, project manager, and installer in coordination with local organizations, agencies, and design firms.
During my early years studying ecological art and design in New York City, I had the privilege of mentoring and working with the late ecological artist Jackie Brookner.
I am currently completing Fire Island Wild, a long-term work shaped by over two decades of living and working on the island.
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The landscape of Fire Island is not fixed. It is shaped by wind, water, and plant life. Every project begins within that living movement.
My work is grounded in the island’s underlying patterns, what I define as Ecological Meridians, developed through long-term observation of sand movement, plant communities, and shifting shorelines.
From ocean to bay, our properties are not isolated, but part of a continuous gradient of vegetation shaped by site-specific conditions.
To design well is to understand that position, and work in alignment with it.
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I read the land through Fire Island Wild flora, sand, wind, and water, and design in response to those forces, not against them.
This work is shaped through long-term observation across dunes, meadows, wetlands, forest, and the bay, where each condition reveals how the island forms, shifts, and sustains itself.
I approach land not as something to divide, but as part of a continuous coastal landscape. On a barrier island, land equity is created through continuity, not division.
Every garden, path, dune, and forest edge participates in a shared field of wind, sand, water, and life. Hard edges interrupt that continuity.
I offer living boundaries, layered plantings that define space while remaining part of the larger landscape, providing privacy, buffering wind, and supporting habitat.
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