Designed for
your biome,
not borrowed.
Every property sits inside a specific biome with specific soils, water, light, and plant communities. Our work begins by reading the place, not by imposing a style. The same studio, designing differently for each region.
Four regions
we know well.
Most landscape firms design one style across every region. The result is gardens that look generic and that perform poorly because the plant choices ignore where the property actually sits.
Eden & Dane designs differently for each biome we work in. The Mid-Atlantic Piedmont gets a Piedmont palette. The New England upland gets a New England palette. The Hamptons gets coastal-plain native plants and an aesthetic vocabulary suited to the architecture of the region.
Our primary studio is in the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont and the majority of our installed work lives within driving distance of Great Falls, Virginia. Beyond that, we work selectively in New England, the Hamptons, and a small number of western locations via remote design consultation.
If you are outside our core service area, we work remotely through detailed design packages, plant lists tuned to your specific biome, and stage-by-stage guidance for your local installer. This is the same design process - we simply hand it off to a partner crew at install.
Four regions we know in detail.
Studio region.
Great Falls, McLean, Northern Virginia, and the broader DMV. Our primary service area, where we install ourselves. Native oak-hickory forest community, transitioning humidity, four full seasons, varied topography from river bluffs to upland.
Granite and birch country.
Vermont, New Hampshire, the Berkshires. Cold winters, granite soils, conifer-hardwood transition forest. Native palettes built around sugar maple, white pine, blueberries, birch, and the understory of a colder forest. Remote design + select onsite engagement.
Salt wind, sandy soil.
The East End of Long Island, the Connecticut shoreline, the Jersey coast. Sandy soils, salt exposure, specific coastal-tolerant palette of bayberry, beach plum, pitch pine, switchgrass. Aesthetic vocabulary tuned to coastal architecture.
Selective engagement.
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, the Mountain West. Selected remote consultations through detailed design packages for clients building or restoring properties in the West. Drought-tolerant, native-first, water-conscious.
A garden that ignores its biome will struggle every year of its life. A garden designed to its biome will get easier each year. The discipline matters.Dane Hoover, Founder
Three reasons we design by biome.
Each region gets its own palette.
A Hamptons garden looks like the Hamptons, not a transplanted Northern Virginia plan. A New England garden looks like New England. The design language shifts with the region because the plants and the architecture demand it.
Plants that already belong.
Every project leads with the native plant community of its biome before introducing ornamentals. The garden establishes faster, requires less water and intervention, and supports the local pollinator and bird community.
Studio reach beyond drive time.
We are based in Great Falls but our work reaches beyond it. Remote consultation packages give properties outside our drive radius the same design discipline through detailed plans and installer guidance.
A garden designed to
belong where it sits.
Begin with a 15-minute discovery call. We will discuss your property, your biome, and whether we are the right studio for the project.
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