Design, Establish & Maintain
A blend of landscape design and ecological thinking. We listen to your land, your needs, and your budget — then create garden rooms that belong.
Gardens that healthe land and the soul
Beautiful, organic garden spaces grown from forty years of scholarship, patience, and a deep love for the natural world.
Wendi Gale
Founder & Designer
Our Philosophy
Honest work that heals
For over forty years, Wendi Gale has been listening to the land and the people who love it.
Good garden work isn't a product to be delivered. It's a relationship — between designer, customer, team, and the land itself, tended with care over time.
We cultivate, encourage, and strengthen biophilia — the innate, tender bond between people and the living world — through thoughtful garden design, inviting pollinators and critters, and teaching botanical health.
40+
Years of Craft
100%
Organic
Durham
& Triangle
What We Believe
Three roots of every garden
Biophilic Spaces
Biophilia is defined as the innate, genetically determined tendency of human beings to seek connections and interact closely with nature. We design sustainable gardens that nurture this connection: places where the earth, flora, and fauna are cared for. Here, stress softens and something essential comes back to life.
Land Stewards Family
Our social mission, Second Growth, offers people honest work, real skills, a caring community, living wages, and generous benefits. Every garden grows somebody, too. Our family is a dedicated team who have worked together for many years. They encourage one another to be the best people they can be, living a life with integrity and honor.
Community Roots
Our customers and vendors become part of the Land Stewards family. We build personal, lasting relationships — exchanging expertise with our vendors, collaborating with community organizations on philanthropic projects, and helping our customers, season by season, become confident stewards of their own land.
What We Do
Our Services
Water Features & Drainage Solutions
Waterfalls, creek beds, ponds, and bog plantings that connect you with nature while quietly solving drainage problems.
Earth, Stone & Structures
Bring beauty and utility to your garden space with structures like stone walls, benches, arbors, fences, and more. We encourage you to bring artwork into the garden.
Our Work
From our gardens
A few moments from recent projects across the Triangle
What Customers Say
Voices from the garden
"Working with Wendi changed how we see our own yard. What was a tired, patchy lawn is now a private paradise that surprises us every season."
Margaret & Tom H.
Hope Valley, Durham
"She turned a slope problem into the most beautiful part of our property — a cascading native garden that handles all the stormwater and looks incredible."
David R.
Watts-Hillandale, Durham
"I love knowing the work I invest in my garden also invests in someone's future. The young man who planted my beds is now on a real career path."
Patricia L.
Trinity Park, Durham
Work With Us
Great gardens grow great things
Consultations are free, and they begin with listening. Tell us your dream, your concerns, your budget — and together we'll discover what your homestead is longing to become.