I have been a multi-passionate landscape designer for almost 15 years (I gasped typing that out because excuse me??). I graduated from the University of Georgia with my Bachelor’s of Landscape Architecture but have spent all my professional practice in sunny central Florida.

As a 16 year old who realized “zoo designer” could be a profession, I perused a path that would hopefully one day lead to me becoming a landscape architect. My ultimate desire was to bridge a gap between creativity and science to help with conservation efforts by designing habitats for critically endangered species. What little me didn’t realize is this is not how “the real world” works.

As time has gone on in my professional career, I have found that I can still make a meaningful impact, just maybe in a smaller way. I have grown to love planting design, particularly planting with natives, as a way to create small scale habitat and plant things that benefit our local ecologies and pollinators - arguably one of our most important Earthly beings!

Landscape design is part art, part science, and as an artist at heart, I wanted to create a community of like minded gardening and crafty friends who want to help support small scale habitats for local creatures and our pollinator friends.

The Pollinator Patch blossomed from my passions of planting design, art and craft. It is the perfect blend of all my favorite things packaged into an accessible little letter, with the intent to create small scale impact.

Welcome to the patch!