A quick survey of firms doing notable work in landscape design and architecture, from the Bay Area to Mumbai.
EcoLogic Landscaping
A leading firm in Marin County and the San Francisco Bay Area, with more than 13 years in landscaping — handling everything from concept to completion, including full garden renovation and maintenance. Their signature offering is the edible garden: not just beautiful, but stocked with fresh fruit and vegetables the client actually grows and eats, chemical-residue-free.
Martin Veltkamp Gardens
A well-known firm based in Bergschenhoek, the Netherlands, serving both individual and corporate clients. Their standard for quality runs deep — the team travels to Spain to buy olives and to Italy to source holm oaks — and that level of care has earned them a clientele well beyond their own borders. Martin Veltkamp's book, Visions, lays out some of his more inspired thinking on gardening and landscape design.
Hidden Lane Landscaping
A Northern Virginia firm with a history of leadership in the landscape business dating back to 1957. Award-winning, known for a distinctive approach and design sensibility, and a member of several reputable industry associations.
TBG Partners, Inc. Landscape Architects and Planners
A major Texas firm with offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, working across mixed-use communities, corporate campuses, educational facilities, hotels and resorts, and gardens. With several LEED Accredited Professionals on staff, they're known for effective execution and long-standing client relationships. Founded in 1987 by Earl Broussard and Tom Afflerbach.
Matt Scott Associates
Based in Newport Beach, Orange County, California, specializing in residential landscape architecture — customized, elegant, functional solutions for a loyal clientele. Over 20 years in business, with a reputation for a consistent, distinctive approach to space design.
Parasnath Enterprise
An Indian firm established in Mumbai in 1985, with landscape design and renovation work across diverse locations throughout India. Beyond design, they trade in natural and artificial plants and run training and workshops on vermiculture, plant care, and bonsai. Their Green Mumbai initiative distributes free saplings for roadside tree planting, and they've organized a series of Green World exhibitions around the city — Vashi, Vileparle, Bandra, Marine Drive, among others.
Land Design Inc
A large, multidisciplinary landscape architecture and civil engineering firm based in Charlotte, North Carolina, taking on large-scale projects like golf course design and urban landscape planning.
Landers-Atkins Planners
A Florida-based firm offering a range of designed-landscape solutions to landowners, private developers, and government agencies — including the military.
Every firm on this list has made beautiful, memorable spaces. None of them, as far as we know, do house calls for grade.