LANDSCAPE DESIGN

Our LANDSCAPE DESIGN walks you through some simple phases that help you define how your new space can thrive as a mini-eco system, demonstrating a sustainable native aesthetic and innate functionality in harmony with your lifestyle, aesthetic, and goals! A professional landscape design gives you a clear vision of what will be accomplished for your property refresh at every level. You receive helpful guidance and a sequence of what to expect every step of the way. We begin with observations and research, followed by reviewing a gestalt conceptual layout and suggested native plant list. We then receive feedback and develop the plan into a 2D master design, through a few revisions, and a prepare a compilation of layers or construction documents as needed for accuracy of implementation.

A Landscape Design package includes:

• Design Consultation

• Private Website Page URL (info accessible in one place)

• 2D Color Layout (digital design) + unlimited revisions

• Full Species-specific Plant + Material lists with Reference Pictures and annotations

• Integrated basemap layers: Permaculture Elements, Bioregional rehabilitation, Microclimate Requirements, + Site specific influences

• Measurements, Specifications to scale and volume

• Strategic ideas, resource links, recommendations

• Vendor recommendations and service provider referrals

• Targeted 3rd party professional youtube videos for how-to and inspiration

• Collaboration to confirm design aesthetics, functional needs, and budget

"Biodiverse and beautiful, a great team and great results in the heart of Boulder— we couldn’t be more pleased.”— Linda

GARDEN PLAN

A GARDEN PLAN is a mini or limited version of a landscape design, offered as a stand-alone service. It takes less time, is less comprehensive and lighter on the budget. Start with a basic sketch and some customized information curated to help you understand what’s necessary for your project and to clarify your decision making process. Great for clients who prefer to act as their own project manager by hiring small-business independent contractors for various services or DIY recommendations. If you prefer, it can also be used as the first or CONCEPTUAL DESIGN phase in your landscape design.

Your Garden Plan package includes:

• Design Consultation

• Private Website Page URL (info accessible in one place)

• 2D Color Layout (digital sketch) + 1 revision

• Shortlist of recommended Plants + Materials

• Note that measurements are not to scale, so area or volume estimates are general, and plant or materials may not include specific names or sizes

• Pictures, ideas, resource links, comparisons or cost-benefit analysis

• Vendor recommendations and service provider referrals

• Targeted 3rd party youtube videos for how-to and inspiration

“I’m so thrilled! It’s like going from 0 to 100 in just a few days!” — Colene

CONCEPT PHASE

As part of your Landscape Design process, this is an exciting phase. A DESIGN CONCEPT is the first real imagination phase useful to hone desired spatial layout and gestalt references. The focus here is all about laying foundations of form, functionality, and use of space, not so much what it will look like yet. The purpose is to find the optimal relationships between various spaces in the landscape, as well as between the landscape and the existing home or environment, and also between those who use the space and the environment. We may use circles, bubbles, or swaths to indicate areas we are dreaming into being. Think outside the box, follow your hunches, imagine movement, experience, exploration and discovery. We ask which of our inspired concepts solve the identified needs or satisfy your preferences most elegantly, most originally, and most efficiently.

Your Conceptual Design phase includes:

• Site Observations + Analysis

• Listing Goals and focal-points

• Sketches, doodles, or basic reference drawings

• Digital mock up of ideas

• Considering use of space, and new ideas

• Accounting for microclimate, elements, neighborhood or natural influences

• Listing challenges and possible solutions

• Dreaming new spaces into being

DEVELOPMENT

HONE YOUR CONCEPT: This phase provides you with iterations or revisions of your design for a fuller and more detailed development of your desired direction from the initial concept. Reference pictures for plants, materials, custom features, or additional research are also explored. We provide a recommended plant list with botanical names and reference pictures, as well as suggested materials if applicable. Specific elements and select layers highlight different relevant features including: structures, utilities, soft/hardscape, irrigation, lighting, permaculture principles, usage, etc.

“We were able to confirm our preferences every step of the way and the yard now looks stunning thanks to the plan.” — Adam & Miriam

CONSTRUCTION PACK

If your project requires detailed plans, we provide a Construction Pack which includes a compilation of relevant documents suitable for use (for example, alongside architectural building plans, or structural engineering guidance) to be read and used by all involved. These documents are delivered digitally or printed by request. To meet code requirements often set by city or county, we work seamlessly alongside an independent Landscape Architect or Structural Engineer who will confirm required specs for builders, contractors, and client and in some cases to provide a clear and finalized materials list and precise measurements, as a detailed blueprint for installation.

“Great design paves the the way for great success in microclimate management.” — MNBC

“When you work with Rebecca’s Gardens, you’re supporting both your local ecology and community.”

Each project is unique and valuable. A design may include any number of layers to integrate use of space, structures, utilities, permaculture principles, plants, materials, irrigation, outdoor lighting, special features, custom requests, and more.

Clients are responsible for hiring independent installers to implement the build and/or plantings per the recommended design. Be sure the Project Manager (PM) can both interpret the design specs accurately as well as the overall aesthetic vision. An initial on site meet may be scheduled additionally as needed for designer + PM to confer.

Now that your beautiful garden has come to life, it will benefit your investment to find a good maintenance team or irrigation specialist either regularly or as needed. For referrals, just ask.

Initial Concept

Digital Mock Up
or Artists Sketch

START WTIH AN INITIAL CONCEPT OR TWO: With this easy-to-use app we can overlay pictures of your space with materials and plants to help you aesthetically visualize the gestalt, or select elements of your ideal space. It’s a quick and simple approach that allows you to compare and contrast basic ideas, giving you a flexible way to guide the initial direction and stay in sync during early communications and planning. Perfect for quick back-and-forth use before committing to a desired design with a tighter evolution. Alternatively, we may provide artistically inspired hand drawn sketches for reference.

Design Plan

2D Rendering
Digital Layout

HONE YOUR CONCEPT INTO AN IDEAL DESIGN: A professional application provides you with a fuller and more detailed development of your desired direction from the initial concept. This phase includes proposing an initial design, engaging in minimal revisions, and culminating in a final desired rendering in 2D. Reference pictures for plants, materials, custom features, or additional research are also explored. We provide a recommended plant list with botanical names and reference pictures, as well as suggested materials if applicable. Your design is delivered as a digital document, along with a printed hardcopy as needed. Details include a layout of general areas, with a list of specific elements, and select layers highlighting different relevant features including: structures, utilities, soft/hardscape, irrigation, lighting, permaculture principles, usage, etc.

Construction Pack

Installation Docs
For Contractors

ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS ARE PROVIDED AS NEEDED: If your project requires more detailed plans, specifically to provide to your installer, we may provide a Construction Pack which includes documents suitable for use (alongside architectural building plans if nec) to be read and used by all involved. These documents are delivered digitally or printed by request. To meet code requirements often set by city or county, we work seamlessly alongside an independent Landscape Architect who will confirm required specs for builders, contractors, and client to provide a clear and finalized materials list and precise measurements, as a detailed blueprint for installation.

At Rebecca’s Gardens we proudly partner with Integral Active Media (iAM), a small Boulder design group, to offer you rEV Design™ a revolutionary values-based approach to earth guardianship.

To be an earth guardian is to recognize that all life is connected and to be interested in those connections, the components, players, and systems all very multi-dimensional and real. It means to be motivated to live and to act from a place of mindful compassionate responsiveness and care toward all living things, including the health and well being of our environments, natural elements, animals, humans, and self.

To design in this regard means to embrace nature’s patterns or best interests in harmony with humanity’s. This can be demonstrated through study, understanding, learning, and practice in many approaches, for example regenerative local landscapes, permaculture projects, ecological planning, geomancy, biodynamic agriculture, even understanding the electrical magnetism of earth’s lay lines and how subtle energy fields are generated and harnessed by sunlight and natural elements in motion. To engage rEV Design, is to engage values that can change our perspective, our worldview, and when we activate change within ourselves, in so doing the world around us changes.

Using a breakthrough method of integrative design and systemic vision, rEvolutionary design is taking bold new steps to equip homeowners, land owners, and leaders in our communities with the education and tools necessary to make uplifting choices which will create a ripple effect in support of implementing greener solutions for all levels of daily life in this time of global transformation.

Rebecca is an experienced rEV Designer™, leading projects herself or with independent assistance. She and her colleagues specialize in custom projects for environmentally conscious businesses such as landscape and garden design and cutting edge initiatives to increase earth awareness and education.

How does rEvolutionary Design™ work?

The rEvolution begins by bringing respect for the environment and ecology to the forefront of client awareness through (a) sustainable landscape design, (b) promoting and working with sustainable vendors, and (c) by prioritizing the health of the land as significant to property value as defined by mindful homeowners and realtors. Financial and many other interdependent qualifications determine how we re-define property value as a collective. To promote and up-level how we value our relationship between ecology and economy, we start new conversations, design or build sustainable solutions, promote new perspectives on our local environments, make sustainable connections, introduce biodiversity, offer symbiotic features, promote education and cooperation, all to inspire your goals while honoring the wisdom of nature by working with natural products and technologies.

Get Your Quick Essential Training In rEvolutionary Design™ + Make A Difference

rEvolutionary Design offers a trademarked certificate program, online and on-location in Boulder, CO, that trains and embodies today’s most forward thinking and empowered green design leaders with a simple effective process of leveraging key tools, practices, and wisdom for mutual benefit. Founded on a unique blend of regenerative social values, progressive philosophy, and embodied perception, this program features breakthrough methods easily applicable across a spectrum of current situations from ethical ecological solutions, to community design, and consumer education, as well as sampling successful takeaways among a broad range of inter-dependent industries from bio-dynamic farming to social cohesion, and better green business development.

Participants take the program as a journey, learning leadership strategies to effectively attract clients aligned with their values, manage team and projects, and delegate tasks for greater synergy with integrity. Through certified rEV™ Design work, long term benefits are as key as immediate steps. Participants are guided through a growth track customized to help support their unique goals and ability, highlighting self-awareness practices, interpersonal skills, honing techniques for learned skills of trade and/or business, and team building, cultivating the courage and foresight to make changes in their industry, and standing up for green values even where habituated attitudes or policy may be undervaluing the importance of timely action. Seamlessly integrated into the program, each participant actively engages in chosen mindfulness practices to maintain the best version of themselves and their trade. Together, we choose to co-create a world where values such as symbiosis and compassionate awareness are re-defining community values, work ethic, and carving out a fresh path for healthy living connections in our lifestyles, industries, and around the globe.

Contact Us here for our 2023 Course Schedule + Upcoming Events. Follow us on social media with videos, tutorials, testimonials and other ways you can participate.

Who Are Our rEvolutionary Designers?

Representing a purpose-driven collective, rEvolutionary Designers™ are intentionally committed to becoming new leaders demonstrating progressive ecological and social change. rEV Design™ is embraced by those who seek to evolve themselves and to redefine their core mission or approach to life, community, and work as a way to come into harmony with the ecology of the planet with its diverse elements and inhabitants. An essential part of this new approach offers steps to integrate interior awareness and culture with the result of finding a greater balance within and recognizing how that is intricately supportive of and connected to the world outside. In this way, aligned intentions that ring true from deep in our core can become a lighthouse of regenerative empowerment around us. As Nicola Tesla recognized that, “if you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration,” rEv Design™ acknowledges that our emotional alignment and heart passions, when holistically directed, can exponentially boost the structure of our authentic green initiatives, for effective collaborative and global rEvolution. rEV Design™ has gained niche popularity in Boulder, Colorado, from which founder Rebecca currently works.

Who Is Integral Active Media (iAM), home of rEvolutionary Design™?

iAM launched in 2011 as a small Boulder design group, which today continues to provide a full service dedicated team offering progressive visual and conceptual design, market strategy, brand positioning, and worldview-targeting for audiences in industries such as permaculture, landscaping, environmental technologies, independent film and media, health and wellness, beauty, healing arts, authentic leadership, travel, and alternative education.

Together with over a decade of experience, iAM brings rEvolutionary ideas, solutions, and projects to the forefront of today’s leadership, supporting individuals, communities, entrepreneurs, creatives, and businesses to promote greener, healthier, more conscious community, and a more harmonious way of life for people and planet through the use of technology, media, awareness, values, practices, and a methodology that aims to newly integrate a dissociated humanity.

Integral Active Media is inclusive of and inspired by Permaculture, Geomancy, Transpersonal Psychology, Indiginous Culture and Shamanic Practices, rebalancing Divine Feminine in the world, the work of Nicola Tesla, and Integral Theory founded by philosopher and author Ken Wilber, as well as a spectrum of ecological, cultural, scientific, artistic, and metaphysical experience and leadership across interconnected fields. Together, we envision a better world.

YOUR GARDEN PRACTICE SESSION

Get Your Head + Heart In Coherence

CULTIVATE YOUR CREATIVE FLOW STATE

GROUND + EXPAND YOUR INTUITION

ENHANCE YOUR DESIGN PROCESS