Garden Designs

Cloverdale Designs is an architecture & landscape design firm specializing in residential landscapes, professional gardening and architectural services. Since 1993 we have designed and built over 100 gardens and home renovations in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. As architects and landscape designers we strive to gracefully integrate the hous... e with the garden. As horticultural experts and professional gardeners we build every garden ourselves to ensure the highest quality materials and planting techniques. Our goal is to create personalized indoor & outdoor spaces based on our clients vision and the natural environment. Our gardens have been featured on many local garden tours and in the New York Times, The Greenwich Times, & House Beautiful Magazine. A New Canaan, CT native Jody graduated from the University of Vermont and the Radcliffe College Landscape Program. She worked with various nurseries, civic gardening groups and landscape designers before completing a professional certificate at the New York Botanical Garden in landscape design and horticulture. She founded Garden Designs in 1993 and has since served Southern New England with personalized landscape design and installation. Jody believes gardens provide a connection to nature that is both healthy and spiritually uplifting. Baker received a bachelor's degree in architecture from Yale University and master's degrees in both architecture and landscape architecture from Harvard University. After working with design firms in Boston, New York and Atlanta, he joined Cloverdale Designs in 2003 as Principal and Lead Designer. In addition to being a landscape designer, Baker is a registered architect, LEED accredited professional, and Certified Permaculture Designer. He strives to create unique living spaces through the integration of architecture and the landscape.Read More