Plantkind is a landscape design studio specialized in brining together native plants and modern built environments.
We make gardens for young families, creative couples, curious entrepreneurs, discerning clients, first-time homeowners, and long-time residents. Based in San Francisco Bay Area working throughout California, the West Coast, and beyond.
Rainy Morning
Approach Our projects are architecturally designed and built to house thriving ecosystems, while providing space for the rhythms of daily life.
The firms design process results in deeply personal spaces tuned into the activities of your lifestyle and reflecting each persons unique tastes.
Spanning beyond the ecological realm, our design systems integrate furniture, lighting, and buildings for holistic site-plans.
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How It Works
By providing as much transparency as possible into how landscape design projects come into existence, the aim is to inspire others to start bringing their own outdoor spaces to life.
Case Studies
It felt right to contextualize what the viewer is looking at for each garden so you know where you are. You can see how each project came into existence, and not just the final photographs.
Sustainable
Highlighting the sustainability practices of landscape design beyond just that we're working in the natural world, as well as walk through the not so sustainable parts.
Providing guidance for pathwaysBloomingConstruction
We're a team with a sharp construction skillset that's embedded throughout the entire roadmap providing an integrated project delivery.
Our studio collaborates with architects, interior designers, fabricators, builders, arborists, and engineers to bring expressive and functional landscapes to life.
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Impact
Plantkind is pushing fresh perspectives as a design practice that is developing our own software, open sourcing deep industry knowledge, and digging into financial transparency.
With always more room to grow, we're working to deploy and care for a network of low-maintenance resilient landscapes throughout our neighborhoods, as equitable natural resources for all life.
(Learn More) Yuccas, Buckwheats, Lemonade Berries
Late fall in El Cerrito
Sidewalk strips
Growing Conditions A newsletter about designing outdoor spaces for living. Spanning beyond the botanical side, it serves as a resource center that gathers the functional objects, outdoor furniture, and architectural features that give form to gardens. Published alongside personal reflections on running a landscape design studio in California and digging into the various fields of research, tools, and systems.