Some of the best projects are totally unique. I’ve consulted on everything from educational training to program development and public garden designs. Let’s talk about your unique needs and how I can help you achieve them.
Trusted Consultant for San Diego's Most Iconic Organizations
Special projects require specialized expertise. I bring broad expertise in botany, science, instructional design and more to everything I do.
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Balboa Park Botanical Building Horticulture Advisory & Landscape Design
I was asked to consult on the renovation and redesign of San Diego’s Balboa Park Botanical Building. I developed a new landscape concept for inside the building, starting with creating an interpretive theme, then taking the process all the way through design, installation, and training garden docents. Among this project’s unique challenges were working with a public agency and community stakeholders, the charge to incorporate numerous mature plants salvaged from the previous garden, laying out the garden on-site with multiple trades during the building’s construction, and creating a design that will carry the garden into the next hundred years.
Every inch of the garden is designed to suit the unique conditions of the hundred-year-old lath house, and considers the specific light exposure in each individual garden bed.
The Botanical Building restoration project has garnered many awards, among them:
- San Diego Architectural Foundation
- 2025 Preservation Design Award (California Preservation Foundation)
- 2025 AIA San Diego Honor Award for Preservation
- SEAOSD Excellence Award: Historic Preservation
- Signature Projects Design Award for Historical Preservation
- SEAOC State-Wide Engineering Excellence
- 2025 People in Preservation Award (Save Our Heritage Organisation)
- Metamorphosis Award: Historic Category (Retrofit)
Read about the Botanical Building restoration
Other consulting projects include:
- Forever Balboa Park:
- Consultant on development of the Garden Steward training program
- Consultant for Kate Sessions Cactus Garden
- San Diego County Biodiversity Working Group
- Advised on the San Diego County Native Landscape Program ordinance
- Rancho La Puerta:
- Website content and marketing materials development
- Water Conservation Garden:
- Educational materials development
- Telephone Q & A hotline
- Plant selection advisory
- Create and teach a variety of courses for homeowner audiences
- R&R Enterprises:
- Assist in the development of special event speaker program including speaker recruitment and coordination
- San Diego Botanic Garden:
- Develop interpretive signage for garden exhibits
- Birch Aquarium at Scripps:
- Exhibit design and evaluation
