Commercial projects:

Projects vary in size from small professional office buildings to major retail operations and industrial sites. Project complexity has ranged from simple plantings to complete site planning, including ponds and waterfalls. Design considerations have been overall aesthetics, maintenance, pedestrian and vehicular circulation. Completed projects range in size from $15,000.00 to over $500,000.00.

Residential landscapes:

Past projects have included water features, decks, paving bricks, terracing, retaining walls, decorative bridges, landscape irrigation and lighting. Site types range from wooded lots to lakeside property. The size of completed projects ranges from $5000.00 to over $200,000.00.

Other projects:

Entrances and signage for businesses and subdivisions (both gated and non-gated communities); memorials for veterans and police.

Frankenmuth Planning Commission from 2000 to 2010.

Frankenmuth Parks and Recreation board member 1990 to 2000. Coordinated volunteers for replanting of Frankenmuth’s rose garden and over four hundred street trees after they were destroyed by a tornado in 1996.

Created a guide book for significant trees in Frankenmuth, helping Frankenmuth earn a ‘Tree City USA’ designation.

Memberships: American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), Michigan Nursery and Landscape Association (MNLA), Partnership for the Saginaw Bay Watershed, National Ski Patrol, US Sailing.

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), founded in 1899, is the only organization representing the landscape architecture profession in the United States. The Society’s mission is to lead, educate, and participate in the careful stewardship, wise planning, and artful design of our natural and man-made environments. Designscapes, Inc. is a proud member of the following organizations.

American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

Michigan Chapter, American Society of Landscape Architects (MASLA)

Michigan Nursery & Landscape Assoc. (MNLA)

Saginaw Valley Nursery & Landscape Association (SVNLA)

Contact Designscapes, Inc. at 989.798.6477 if your association, garden club, or trade show wishes to have a speaker for a future meeting or seminar. Topics already presented by Designscapes, Inc. include:

• Bio-retention (landscape areas for collection of runoff water)
• Creating a Backyard Retreat
• New Colorful Plants
• Landscape Lighting
• Pavers in the Landscape
• Perennials in the Landscape
• Pest Control in the Landscape
• Soil Preparation for Lawn & Wildflower Areas
• Water in the Garden
• Water Feature Tips
• Weed Control in the Garden