Selected work

From perennial borders to Manhattan rooftops.

Rob's work spans Hudson Valley garden design, large-scale urban and commercial installations, and seasonal rotations for Manhattan properties. A selection of recent work below.

Garden design & installation

Perennial Border

A mixed perennial border designed for full sun and long bloom — Russian sage and salvia for blue, yarrow for yellow, smoke bush and a young fruit tree for structure.

A sidewalk planter strip running alongside a city walkway, packed with pink, yellow, purple, and white tulips above a layer of pansies.

Seasonal commercial planting

Spring Tulip Ribbon

A long sidewalk planter ribbon of tulips, pansies, and ornamental grasses installed for a spring rotation in midtown Manhattan.

A modern rooftop terrace with planters of daffodils and grasses, looking out over the Manhattan skyline.

Commercial rooftop garden

Midtown Rooftop Terrace

A corporate rooftop terrace with raised planting beds of daffodils and ornamental grasses, framed by built-in bench seating and a skyline view of the Empire State Building.

A floor-to-ceiling sculptural planter of bromeliads and anthurium installed on a white wire frame inside a retail store.

Commercial interior planting

Retail Bromeliad Installation

A sculptural plant installation built into a white wire armature for a retail interior — densely planted bromeliads in red and green, accented with anthurium and trailing foliage.

An overhead view of a stone courtyard patio with Adirondack chairs and a wooden arbor, surrounded by lush garden beds.

Hardscape & garden installation

Urban Courtyard Retreat

A flagstone terrace tucked between brick buildings, framed by serviceberry and a deep layered planting of ferns and perennials. A quiet outdoor room in the middle of the city.

A modern white lakefront home with a long horizontal cedar-slat fence, freshly installed hydrangeas and shrubs along the foundation.

Residential design & install

Lakefront Landscape

A new build set into a coastal hillside, with hydrangeas and ornamental grasses anchoring the foundation and a wraparound border softening the line between house and shore.

A street-level container planting with birch logs, evergreen boughs, red winterberry stems, and pinecones in front of a Manhattan storefront.

Seasonal commercial planting

Winter Holiday Container

A custom winter container display for a Madison Avenue storefront — birch logs, fresh evergreen boughs, red winterberry, and pinecones built into the existing planter.

A long sidewalk planter of tulips and pansies running along a downtown Manhattan street with skyscrapers in the background.

Seasonal commercial planting

Downtown Spring Streetscape

A streetscape spring installation packed with tulips, pansies, and golden carex grass — mixed color blocking that holds up to constant foot traffic.

A street-level garden bed in full bloom with yellow, pink, orange, and double parrot tulips clustered above a layer of blue spruce.

Seasonal commercial planting

Parrot Tulip Display

A dense color study in tulips — yellow, pink, orange, and double-bloom parrot varieties layered above a base of blue spruce and ornamental grasses.

Hardscape & garden installation

Urban Courtyard Retreat

A flagstone terrace tucked between brick buildings, framed by serviceberry and a deep layered planting of ferns and perennials. A quiet outdoor room in the middle of the city.

Residential design & install

Lakefront Landscape

A new build set into a coastal hillside, with hydrangeas and ornamental grasses anchoring the foundation and a wraparound border softening the line between house and shore.

A sunken garden with massive stone slab benches surrounded by ferns and conifers at the base of a brick building.

Hardscape & shade planting

Sunken Garden Refuge

Stone slab benches set into a layered shade planting of ferns, hellebores, and conifers — a contemplative space at the base of a residential tower.

A long sidewalk planter packed with pink and yellow tulips and pansies, with the Empire State Building visible in the background.

Seasonal commercial planting

Empire State Spring Planting

A spring tulip and pansy installation in long sidewalk planters with the Empire State Building rising behind. Annual color rotations installed and maintained for the property.

A grouping of fall containers in front of a green plant wall: yellow mums, crotons, and ornamental cabbages.

Seasonal commercial planting

Autumn Container Display

A fall container vignette with mass yellow mums, crotons, and ornamental cabbage — sited against a green wall for an immersive seasonal entry.

A classical limestone wall fountain with English ivy growing in formal panels on either side, above a clipped boxwood and shade perennial bed.

Formal landscape

Formal Fountain & Ivy Wall

A classical limestone wall fountain framed by espaliered ivy panels and a tightly clipped boxwood and shade-perennial bed. Quiet, formal, deeply maintained.

A curving entrance planting bed of pink, purple, and white impatiens with rounded boxwood shrubs.

Commercial annual color

Property Entrance Display

A mass impatiens planting in the entrance curve of a commercial property — pink, purple, and white drifts woven through clipped boxwood for high-visibility curb appeal.

An interior atrium with hanging plants and a lush planting bed of tropical foliage beside a staircase.

Commercial interior planting

Atrium Plantscape

A two-story atrium installation with overhead trailing greens, structural specimen trees, and a dense bromeliad and fern understory at the mezzanine level.

Commercial interior planting

Living Wall

A floor-to-ceiling living wall built into a lounge — a tapestry of plant textures sized and integrated to the room.

Five mature columnar beech trees freshly planted in a row on an urban site, with burlap-wrapped root balls visible.

Tree installation

Mature Tree Installation

A grove of columnar beech installed for an urban site — mature trees, properly staked, with engineered drainage and structural soil for long-term health.

Bright pink hydrangeas and ornamental trees planted in a stone-curbed bed along an urban sidewalk.

Streetscape & commercial planting

Urban Streetscape

Custom street-level planters with ornamental trees, seasonal color, and shade-tolerant groundcovers — designed for high-traffic sidewalks.

A large ficus tree with bromeliads growing in its branches, surrounded by a ground planting of agaves and bromeliads.

Specialty planting

Tropical Courtyard

A sculptural courtyard planting built around a mature ficus, with bromeliads epiphytically mounted in the canopy and a striking ground composition of agaves and bromeliad clusters.

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