Garden Design

At Lands Cape, we specialize in planning coastal and ecological garden designs that utilize native plants and perennials. Contemporary-style gardens are another area of specialty. We work with you to design the garden of your dream.

Projects

From designing gardens for celebrity clients, high net worth bank executive and notable fashion designers to Alice's own Cape Cod backyard oasis, Lands Cape’s portfolio is as varied and unique as their customers. Following, is a sampling of the group’s garden design projects:

1000 SF Rooftop, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Custom design and install by Alice Marcus Krieg/Groundworks Inc.

NJ Shore Curb Appeal

Spring Lake, NJ Shore: Front of curb appeal at the Shore

Corporate Law Office, Rockefeller Center

6000 sf rooftop garden, designed by Nina Kramer Landscape Architecture, Project Management by Groundworks Inc/Alice Marcus Krieg

Brownstone Rear Yard

With preserved Red Bud tree, reclaimed timbers from house construction and native plantings as a respite to urban ills.

Midtown Manhattan Greenroof & Rooftop Garden

15,000 sf - Project Management and Maintenance by Groundworks Inc/Alice Marcus Krieg

Alice Marcus Krieg Home Garden

2020 install, 2500 sf front garden meadow: pollinators and water wise plantings.

Park Life Taqueria

Adaptive reuse of an auto mechanic garage into a beer garden and taqueria, 5000 sf lot and manufacturing building: trees, island plantings with perennials.

Residential Meadow on a Roof

Floating deck and 'at grade' sunken bed with native meadow pollinator garden plants.

Plant procurement, garden design and installation

Lands Cape works with you to procure the most beautiful plantings to create a unique design for your new garden. If you wish, we are available to work with contractors to manage installation as well.

Specialized niche design

Green infrastructure: roofs, walls and bioswales

Design services

Residential, commercial, institutional and public

Contact Alice

Our projects unfold as a narrative – they are the storyline of how and why they come to be.

Process

We think through every step of your garden by:

Step 1

Visiting to assess your property and provide recommendations based upon space, sun, shade, rain, wind and all of the things that affect how your garden grows.

"ALL the THINGS"

Step 2

Sketching some designs for you!

Step 3

Providing you with all of the procurement details and a cost estimate.

Step 4

Installing your garden. We can work with your contractors or suggest contractors for the job. We can also manage project oversite to ensure that everything is running on time and on budget.