Planting Design

 Great planting design is more than selecting attractive plants. It is about creating a landscape that responds to its architecture, ecology, and surroundings—and becomes richer over time.

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

Planting designs combine trees, shrubs, perennials, ornamental grasses, groundcovers, and seasonal interest into cohesive plant communities that feel natural, intentional, and connected to place.

Each planting plan considers:

• Existing trees + surrounding vegetation
• Sun, shade, soils + site conditions
• Scale + relationship to architecture
• Layering, massing, texture + movement
• Color + seasonal interest
• Native + regionally adapted plants
• Pollinator + wildlife habitat
• Screening, privacy + views
• Plant diversity + resilience
• Long-term growth + maintenance

Trees provide structure, shade, habitat, seasonal character, and a sense of permanence within the landscape.

Where appropriate, DELA uses canopy and understory trees as the framework of the planting composition, with shrubs, grasses, perennials, and groundcovers creating successive layers beneath and around them.

Rather than treating plants as individual objects, species are composed through layering, repetition, rhythm, massing, texture, and contrast to create landscapes with depth, movement, and a strong sense of place.

Planting can do far more than beautify a property.

Thoughtfully selected native and adapted plant communities can support pollinators, birds, beneficial insects, and other wildlife while improving biodiversity and creating landscapes that change naturally through the seasons.

Pollinator gardens, habitat planting, and ecologically focused landscapes can be integrated into both formal and naturalistic settings without sacrificing strong design.

The goal is not simply to fill planting beds.

DELA creates planting designs intended to grow, move, change, and mature—landscapes that become more expressive as trees develop, plants intermingle, and seasonal patterns emerge.

The result is a landscape that feels layered, enduring, and connected to place.

Thoughtfully composed. Naturally refined..