LANDSCAPE DESIGN is both an ART and a PROCESS

CREATIVE

We believe a well-designed landscape should be beautiful, offering a sense of place to visitors, enhancing the community, and adding to the property’s value.

 

FUNCTIONAL

With careful forethought and planning, our designers can maximize the property’s use and people’s enjoyment. Thoughtful consideration of its history, its existing site conditions, and its great potential makes for a place-specific landscape that works.

 

SUSTAINABLE

Good landscape design creates a satisfying outdoor space and saves time, effort and resources, all while contributing to a healthy local environment by using sustainable products and processes whenever possible.

DESIGN SERVICES

PLAN VIEW DESIGN: gets the exciting ideas on paper

 

3D DESIGN: brings your design to life

 

MEET OUR DESIGN TEAM

SARA

REBEKAH

MAY

  • Landscape Architect / Lead Designer
    Rebekah grew up near the East Coast shore, camped her way across the country on family vacations, landed in Illinois for a Masters degree in Landscape Architecture, practiced for a short while in Austin, Texas, and found her home in beautiful Duluth 13 years ago. In her design practice, she gets most excited by the powerful relationship between the land and the people who live and gather there. For the past eight years, Rebekah has been designing nature playscapes and outdoor classrooms for children across the state with 3 Owls Outdoor Play Consultants, LLC. She & her family (husband + four kiddos) love the beach, the woods, and the people they find here in MN!

  • MLA
    Designer / Master of Landscape Architecture at the University of Minneso    ta
    Sara grew up in Stillwater, MN. Her father was Stillwater’s City Planner. From a young age, Sara’s values harmonized with creatively designed spaces. In graduate school, Sara was a Plant Identification Teaching Assistant and interned at a stewardship based non-profit, Great River Greening. Her community outreach and organizational skills lead her to working at an engineering firm, SRF Consulting Group. Along with her passion to design eye-catching, sustainable spaces Sara also takes time to cross-country ski coach her nephews and their teammates. Sara helped found North XC. North XC is a junior training group for endurance athletes. Sara is excited to design for you!

  • Design Assistant, MNLA
    May is an exciting addition to our design team. She has hands-on experience working on job sites and the designer credentials to make her perfectly well rounded. Prior to Team Saline, May had worked in lawn care, maintenance, snow removal, and installation for 5 years. She earned her associates degree for Landscape Design at Hennepin Technical College in 2020 and her MNLA Certification Degree in 2022. May likes to spend her free time learning how to draw and cook. She also likes playing video games and going to concerts. May is eager to make your project come to life!