Leo Garden Design

Creators and caretakers of fine gardens and landscapes

Leo Garden Design works with residential and institutional clients to design, install, and carefully maintain beautiful outdoor spaces.

We are eco-conscious and collaborative.

Based in Philadelphia, we assist historic gardens by using best practices for preservation and landscape management.

Winter blooms, and orange tendrils oozing out of a cedar apple rust gall.

#scillasiberica #cornusmas #magnoliastellata #camellia #hamamelis #claytonia #crocus #prunusarmeniaca #cedarapplerust

The extremely fragrant Edgeworthia chrysanthus (paperbush). One of those plants you smell before you see in the garden. Buds are fuzzy pale green cat’s paws that throughout winter swell and slowly lift up towards the increasing sun, flying sauc

Looking for gardeners and 1-2 experienced crew leaders with a passion for horticulture to join our small team. 🤗

If you know anyone who might be interested, please send them our way! Work is on a part-time seasonal basis through mid-December.

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These willows, planted in a rain garden designed to capture stormwater runoff, drink enough to grow 15’ a year. We pollard the tallest, Salix alba ‘Britzensis,’ back to their knobby knuckles, which maintains the height and vibrant s

Evolution of a veggie garden. 👨&zwj;🌾
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Grateful for clients who preserve ruins and let us re-use materials otherwise destined for the dump! Great hard work over the years by the clients, horticulturalist-doctor-farmer Denis Lucey, and the Leo

We plant mostly native species to maximize ecological impact and a sense of place, but Hellebores are indispensable. They’re easy, evergreen doers, requiring only one cut-back in Nov/Dec. Amazing variety. Great companions for early spring bulbs