Our clients are at the center of these spaces and of our story. They’re open-minded and creative. They welcome new ways of thinking, doing and living that improve their quality of life. Our clients are more than willing to explore the possibilities with us, and it’s a pleasure to put smiles on their faces.
We believe that beauty is as much about how something looks as how it works. A beautiful space engages all five senses, but it can also encourage community, provide repose from our busy world and, importantly, support our environment and help us feel more connected to nature.
A beautiful space hums. It buzzes. It lives!
Take a look around, meet our team below, and explore our integrated services, projects and other initiatives! Welcome!
Beautiful Spaces For Original People
1. What would surprise people about you?
Completed my pilot solo flight when I was 17.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Hit the lottery jackpot.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
Saucer magnolia - it was my childhood-climbing tree.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
The mountains, anywhere I can bike or ski.
Ben Andrews, PLA
OUTDOOR BUILD MANAGER
Matthew Fonash
1. What would surprise people about you?
I make one hell of a breakfast sandwich.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Travelled much or backpacked across a country.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
A gardenia, I love the scent, and a lemur because I think I was a lemur in a past life.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
New Zealand.
LEAD CARPENTER
Dillon Fretz
1. What would surprise people about you?
I own a bespoke vintage tonsorial products business.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Travelled to every state in the country - only 15 to go!
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
…still thinking...
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
…still thinking…
CARPENTRY MANAGER
Heather Haberle
1. What would surprise people about you?
I went from living on Baffin Island, above the arctic circle, to the pacific island nation of the Republic of the Marshall Islands in 1999.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Mastered conversational Spanish. Perfected a flaky pie crust. Cross-country road trip.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
Eastern Redbud. Peonies. Dogs - they bring out the goofiness in folks.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
Any nature adventure with family and friends.
ADMINISTRATOR
Jim Haggar
1. What would surprise people about you?
I can crochet and make a mean scarf during the holiday season.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
I've always wanted to hand build a cabin from logs harvested from my own property.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
I think dogs understand people more than people understand people.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
Jim Thorpe, PA
DESIGNER
Ali McLaughlin
GARDEN CARE & RESTORATION TEAM MEMBER
1. What would surprise people about you?
I shaved my head.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Traveled outside of the country.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
Any plants with berries and nice fall foliage. Moths, because they are great pollinators and have cute faces!
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
Anywhere with a beach or a river and a good spot to drink my coffee and read a book.
Carl Molter, PLA
1. What would surprise people about you?
I’m half El Salvadoran (but I can’t speak Spanish).
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Live outside my home state of New Jersey.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
Tulips. They didn’t create the first market crash for nothing.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
The Poconos; where else?
DESIGN DIRECTOR
Todd Montgomery
1. What would surprise people about you?
I played Division I lacrosse in college.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Been to Japan, especially in winter
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
The mighty white oak! It’s a hard worker and it’s what I picture when I think “tree”.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
Anywhere with streams and rapids and swimming holes.
DESIGNER
Morgan Rayer
1. What would surprise people about you?
I hate avocado.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Go to Alaska.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
Foxes, because they’re cool.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
Virgin Islands.
OUTDOOR BUILD TEAM MEMBER
Tyler Simonovich
1. What would surprise people about you?
I used to own my own haymaking business.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
I haven’t been to Alaska
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
Has to be dogs, they are incredibly loyal.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
Anywhere in the Smokies or Rockies.
OUTDOOR BUILD TEAM MEMBER
Drew Simonovich
1. What would surprise people about you?
I played guitar and sang in a punk band when I was in high school.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
I’ve never travelled outside of the country, but my wife and I would love to visit Scotland.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
Tabby cat.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
Any Civil War battlefield.
OUTDOOR BUILD TEAM LEADER
Kali Smalley, PLA
1. What would surprise people about you?
I used to be a bee keeper.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Traveled the world
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
Tulip Poplar. I grew up beneath a huge one, and they are very sculptural.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
Anywhere there is peace and quiet
DESIGNER
1. What would surprise people about you?
…still thinking…
2. What haven’t you done yet?
…still thinking…
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
The Prickly Pear. It’s Pennsylvania’s only native cactus!
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
…still thinking…
GARDEN CARE & RESTORATION TEAM LEADER
Matt Stout
Tim Sweeting
1. What would surprise people about you?
I grew up in Queens, NY.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
I haven’t been to Alaska or Hawaii yet.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
Osprey!
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
I would love to visit Japan.
OUTDOOR BUILD TEAM MEMBER
Doug Walkup
CARPENTRY AND OUTDOOR BUILD TEAM MEMBER
1. What would surprise people about you?
I bungee jumped out of hot air balloon @ 1000 ft.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Learn to fly a plane.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
I like exotic frogs because of their colors.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
At a lake in the Montana mountains and/or Alaska.
Mary Zuzack
1. What would surprise people about you?
I volunteered on a soy sauce fermentation farm in Korea.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Done a backflip on a dirt bike.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
Partridge Pea because it's cute and helpful in the garden.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
Anywhere where dogs are pulling me in a wagon.
GARDEN CARE & RESTORATION MANAGER
Henri
1. What would surprise people about you?
…still thinking...
2. What haven’t you done yet?
…still thinking…
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
…still thinking…
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
…still thinking…
LEAD VOCALS
Lady
1. What would surprise people about you?
I’ve had eight surgeries.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
I have never been in a plane.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
Ruffed Grouse. It is our state bird!
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
The Poconos.
CHIEF GREETER
Layla
1. What would surprise people about you?
I love to swim.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
I’ve never seen the ocean.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
Otter. I may have been one in a past life.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
A stinky swamp with frogs to chase.
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