Garden Design, Maintenance & Renovations

About Us

Leslie Watkins is a Connecticut Master Gardener and holds a certificate in horticulture from Northwestern Connecticut Community College. She designs, paints and maintains gardens in NWCT. Watkins’ garden design illustrations have been published in Rodale’s “Perennial Combinations” and in magazines including Fine Gardening, Horticulture, Kitchen Gardener, and in The New York Times. Her botanical watercolors have appeared on notecards, home goods and postage stamps. When not gardening, Leslie is a landscape oil painter, botanical illustrator, instructs watercolor classes and papercrafting workshops. For more information about Leslie’s artwork please visit Dandelion Cottage Design

Lawrence Davis-Hollander is the founding Director of the Eastern Native Seed Conservancy, one of the first organizations dedicated to preserving and promoting heirloom vegetable varieties.  He trained as a botanist with a sub-specialty in ornamental plants and art history at Connecticut College where he designed the plantings for the new library. He farmed organic vegetables in New York State before it was fashionable. At Harvard University he studied economic and ethnobotany with Richard Evans Schultes, one the world’s foremost botanists specializing in medicinal plant uses.

Rachel Perry is a Connecticut Master Gardener and is a Plant Whisperer in training. She’s passionate about all things nature and is our “Go-t0” person for just about everything, she does it all!

Leslie

Owner, Designer & Writer

And fine artist

Lawrence

Plant Whisperer & Writer

Our ethnobotanist

Rachel

CT Master Gardener

Our indispensable assistant

The Flock

Assistants

Expert composters

Ask The Gardener

Questions?

Visit Leslie at the Norfolk Farmers Market

Vegetable Gardens

Grow Your Own!

Lawrence is an heirloom expert

Classes & Talks

On Gardening & Botanical Art

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Our Gardens

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Ashgrove Garden

2

Dandelion Cottage

3

Emerson House

4

Meadow House

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The Norfolk Library

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Persian Garden

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 The Playhouse 

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  South Norfolk 

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Summer Retreat

Garden consults available

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