Landscape Master Plans

DELA provides professional landscape architecture and landscape master planning for private estates, residential and commercial properties, campuses, parks, plazas, healing gardens, and public landscapes throughout Atlanta, North Georgia, and select Southeastern markets.

Each Landscape Master Plan begins with the character of the land—its architecture, existing trees, topography, soils, water, views, and surrounding ecology. These elements become the framework for connecting buildings, outdoor spaces, gardens, circulation, and natural systems into a cohesive landscape.

For private estates and residential properties, master planning establishes a long-term vision for the entire landscape. Outdoor living spaces, gardens, pools, walks, terraces, existing trees, views, screening, and planting are considered together so that individual improvements become part of one connected landscape. A master plan can be implemented at once or provide a framework for improvements constructed over time.

DELA develops Landscape Master Plans for commercial properties, mixed-use environments, corporate and institutional campuses, and other larger landscapes. Plans consider the relationship between architecture, circulation, gathering spaces, existing vegetation, planting, and the surrounding environment to create landscapes that are functional, distinctive, and connected to place.

Parks and public spaces should invite people into the landscape. DELA approaches park, plaza, and public landscape design through the thoughtful organization of gathering spaces, circulation, shade, existing trees, planting, views, and connections to the surrounding community.

Healing and therapeutic gardens may also be designed to create restorative outdoor environments that encourage interaction with nature.

Ecology is not separate from design—it becomes part of the composition.

Existing trees, native vegetation, soils, water, wildlife habitat, and seasonal change are considered alongside the functional and aesthetic goals of the project.

Trees establish structure and canopy. Shrubs create mass and enclosure. Grasses and perennials introduce movement, texture, color, and seasonal change. Groundcovers knit these layers together. Rather than relying on isolated plants and conventional foundation planting, DELA uses layering, repetition, massing, rhythm, and contrast to create landscapes that feel immersive, natural, and enduring.

Where appropriate, DELA incorporates native and regionally adapted plants, pollinator gardens, habitat planting, and diverse plant communities into the larger landscape.

Thoughtful planting can support pollinators, birds, and beneficial insects while improving soils, managing water, reducing erosion, providing shade, and strengthening the connection between people and the natural environment. The goal is not simply a beautiful landscape, but one that is living, resilient, and ecologically connected.

A successful landscape should never feel static.

A Landscape Master Plan establishes the structure and long-term vision while allowing plants, trees, and natural systems to mature and evolve over time.

Whether a private estate, commercial property, campus, park, plaza, or public garden, DELA creates landscapes intended to become richer, more layered, and more expressive with age.

Layered + evolving. Rooted in place. Designed to endure.