Residential Gardens
Gardens Designed to Live With
For people. For pollinators. For the life already unfolding around home.
Tell the Bees designs native, pollinator-supporting gardens shaped around the place you live and the experience you want to have beside it. The goal is not simply a garden that looks good. It is a living landscape that belongs, changes through the seasons, supports life, and becomes part of everyday life at home.
A Garden That Belongs
A Tell the Bees garden begins with the place itself. Sun, soil, water, existing plants, views, movement, and the life already present all shape what comes next.
Place
We begin with what the site is already telling us—its light, soil, moisture, scale, architecture, and the way you move through it.
Life
Native and pollinator-supporting plants create habitat, seasonal change, food, shelter, and relationships that continue far beyond bloom.
Experience
The garden is shaped around how you want to live beside it—where you pause, what you notice, what draws you outside, and what brings you back.
What We Design
Residential work can begin with a single planting area or with a larger rethinking of how the landscape works around the home.
Pollinator Gardens
Season-long planting designed to support native bees, butterflies, birds, and other beneficial life while creating a garden with structure and beauty.
Remembrance Gardens
Living places created around memory, connection, and return—without needing to become formal memorials.
Garden Revisions
Existing beds can often be reshaped rather than replaced—improving plant choice, seasonal continuity, ecological value, and the way the garden feels to live with.
How We Work
Start With the Place
The first step is not choosing plants. It is understanding the garden you have, what is working, what is missing, and what you want the landscape to give you.
Some gardens need a complete design. Others need a thoughtful planting plan, a clearer structure, or simply the right plants in the right places.
The process is scaled to the project rather than forcing every garden into the same package.
Conversation
We begin with how you use the landscape, what matters to you, and what you would like to change.
Site
Light, soil, drainage, existing plants, circulation, views, and surrounding ecology help define what belongs.
Design
The garden is developed around both ecological function and the experience of living beside it.
Planting
Plant choices are made for season-long life, resilience, repetition, structure, and relationships with pollinators.
A good garden is not something we finish looking at. It is something we learn to live beside.
What could your garden become?
If you are considering a new native garden, revising an existing planting, or simply trying to understand what belongs in your landscape, begin with a conversation.