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Garden Designer Hilary Hart

I enjoy working with people to help them realize their own garden aesthetic. Together we can design for impact, depth and four-season glory. I can help you make the most of structure, color and texture, as well as timing (plants come in and out of bloom, leaves have their seasons of beauty and decay). With my background as an educator, I am committed helping my clients learn what they need to know to succeed in their gardens.

I think what makes me unique as a garden designer is that I have an abiding passion for plants. Anyone can dig a hole and put I plant in it. I think it is fair to say that I am a plant specialist, which means I know which plants thrive where and how to care for a plant through its lifespan.

Gardening started for me with my mother, who always kept a kitchen garden and is the first person I know who tore up her front lawn to replace it with perennials. During summers, living on a modern-day homestead with my father, we practically lived out of the enormous vegetable garden my step-mother kept.

I went away to college and had a rather extended stay, earning a Ph.D. in English and teaching at the University of Oregon. I was drawn away from academe by the call of the plant. When my husband took a job at Emory University and we moved to Atlanta, I immediately began volunteering at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. What was formerly a deep interest in plants rapidly became a full-blown obsession. As a plant geek, I’ve written materials for evolutionary plant biologists and created a website about the flora of a remote and evolutionarily important island, New Caledonia. I have also studied native plants of the Southeast and worked in the field to restore orchid populations in the swamps of Florida.

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