Fiore Garden Designs has continued to build gardens and develop landscapes from concept to blooms for an exacting private landowner for over twenty years.

Each project begins with a series of site visits, during which we listen to our client's interests, budget, and understanding of the site in terms of topography, natural features, and how the proposed design will fit into the natural landscape.

For our designers, the idea of a sustainable landscape and gardens is to follow nature's example. We gravitate toward using indigenous plants and trees to maintain the biodiversity native to the site.

Specific host plants provide future generations of pollinators and food sources for native bird species. We make a conscious effort to maintain the existing microclimates in our building practices. Ideally, we use vernacular materials; on some projects, we screen and recycle materials to build gardens.

We work with our clients to discover their desires, define their scope, and bring functional and aesthetic requirements to the forefront to establish a clear vision.

Each project requires a consultation and programming process, for each is site-specific, and every garden we build has a unique beauty.

SERVICES: Landscape Design and Build

Master landscape plan: Includes

Concept Drawing: Your site’s landscape and garden potential. Choosing a “Landscape grammar,” natural or formal, grade shifts as part of the design, and an inherent water course on-site, to name a few. All aspects of your site are incorporated into the concept drawing.

Landscape Architecture: The hardscape patios, Deck retaining walls, Pergolars, Buildings, micro-farms, Pool paths, and driveways are all designed to scale in the masterplan.

Horticulture: The master plan delineates the size and quantity of all the gardens and plantings. Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, and Meadows are rendered to provide a visual understanding of the proposed plan.

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Landscape Construction Services:

Once the masterplan is accepted, our team of Landscape horticulturists and craftspeople at Fiore Garden Designs can prepare a cost proposal for your design.

Construction and Planting Services:

Earthwork: Full Site earthwork and preparation, Land clearing for the design, tree removal, pruning, land grading, and leveling.

Landscape Architecture includes installing pools, patios, decks, Stone-stacked walls, retaining walls, pergolas, outbuildings, Irrigation systems, Fire pits, drainage systems, and Fences, all aspects of landscape construction.

-Gardens and plantings: soil preparation, tree, shrub, herbaceous plants,, re-wild meadows

rain gardens, bioswales, micro-farms, turf lawns, sod, all aspects of plantings

Garden Care: pruning, mulching, dividing perennials, deadheading, and managing the gardens and landscape throughout the season.

PROCESS:

We begin by developing a landscape master plan. This involves determining the site's potential, your interests in the garden style, and the balance between the gardens and the architecture..

MEADOWS:

 Matrix-style meadows can be designated and planted in any size area. Small garden areas or acreage Meadows create a sustainable ecosystem for wildlife, from butterflies to birds. Correctly designed meadows handle water runoff and erosion control with fewer weeds.

This approach to planting balances the size of formal lawns around the architecture with the land’s natural contour with very little maintenance.

Incorporating meadows into the Landscape plan introduces both sustainability and a wild aesthetic.

Fiore Garden Designs cultivates the four essential native grasses we plant in our meadows on our farm in Kerhonkson. These vital grasses are the organic substrate of a Meadow garden.

From a design perspective, meadows harmonize well with most garden schemes, from free-form to formal layouts.

Native wildflower plants enhance the planting while fostering a natural ecosystem on your site. The meadow quickly becomes a self-sustaining sanctuary for birds, butterflies, and pollinators.

This is what I call “Design Driven by Nature.” I rely on my Horticulture background to deconstruct what I see in nature and rebuild the meadow from the underground and up.

The site's soil structure and drainage quality determine the earthwork level.

All this discovery goes into the garden plan, which creates the ultimate landscape design to complement and work well with your architecture and lifestyle.

Fiore Garden Designs, we approach landscape and Garden design by first understanding the site's ecology, i.e., microclimates, biodiversity, and sustainability.

These influences re-occur in the final design.

 A lower flat grade is an example of a site's inherent ecological aspects. This area is where runoff may be collected in heavy rain, or this area can experience drought in the hot months. A sustainable design solution is “Re-wilding.” Recreate a native meadow using a variety of indigenous plants: grasses, carex, and wildflowers. This approach will result in a year-round natural ecosystem supporting the different species of plants.

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Design services:

Master Plan: Full Landscape and Garden Plan: Includes Concept and preliminary drawings and meetings, schematic drawing showing landscape architecture, gardens and horticulture, list of plant sizes and quantities, sq footage of lawns and meadows, drainage systems, and irrigation design.

Pricing depends on the specifics of the site. Gradfhifts, runoff, size of the plantings

First Meeting Is Free

1/4 acer $1800 to $3000.

1 acer $3000 to 4500

3 + acres $5500 to to $7500

The Master plan can be divided into three parts:

Concept plan- Sketch the overall landscape grammar and flow diagrams in detail -$ 900

Landscape Architecture- Concept plan with the landscape Architecture layout in

detail to scale.. $2200

Horticulture Plan Trees, shrubs, flower gardens, lawn meadows, etc. TBD

Construction Drawings: Pools retaining walls, patios, decks, etc. $300

Sourcing Plant material TBD

Installation is Priced according to plan.