Principal Landscape Architect/Owner
Gayle’s specialties include: site analysis, master planning, design development, site furnishing, sustainable/green design, construction documents, contract and bid preparation, and hardscape, structure, and garden design for persons with physical limitations.
- registered Landscape Architect with 14+ years of experience with large-scale and intimate projects
- licensed Occupational Therapist with 20+ years of experience working with the elderly and disabled
- became interested in Landscape Architecture as an extension of her own gardening activities
- dedicated to creating designs that accommodate physical limitations such as mobility and low vision
- certain that great site designs result from a wonderful synergy between the site, the client and the designer
- uses her home landscape as a laboratory to explore new plants, color combinations, furnishings, and lighting effects
- received Masters Degree with Honors in Landscape Architecture from the University of Georgia in 1997
- lives with husband Fred Howe and dog Sally Ride in a charming stone cottage in historic Warrenton, VA
- believes in happy accidents and that sometimes the best design inspiration happens when things don’t go as originally planned
- thinks “you get me” is the one of the best compliments she can receive
- vegetarian since 1972
- cultivates organic fruits, vegetables, and ornamentals
- believes dinner parties for 6 or 8 fascinating people are one of the great art forms
- member of the board of directors of a community trail advocacy group that promotes the development of multi-use trails
- recipient, American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award for Excellence in the Study of Landscape Architecture (1996)