Fairfield County · Landscape Design & Build
Grounds that age like architecture.
A residential landscape studio designing, building, and tending the whole of a place — terraces, gardens, and the slow architecture of the land around a house.
A garden is not decoration. It is the slow architecture of a place — terraces that hold a hillside, trees planted for the generation that follows, light arranged so an evening lingers. We design and build the whole of it, then tend it as it matures.
Site study
We begin by reading the land.
Every commission starts as a survey — grade, light, and water mapped before a single stone is set.
Site study · 01The estate, in relief
What we do
From the first survey to the tenth spring.
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Design & Master Planning
Every project begins on paper: grading, sightlines, and a planting plan drawn for how the land reads in ten years, not ten weeks.
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Stonework & Hardscape
Dry-laid walls, bluestone terraces, and stair runs cut and set by hand — the bones the garden is built on.
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Gardens & Planting
Layered, regionally-native plantings designed for succession, so something is always coming into its moment.
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Outdoor Lighting
Low, warm light placed to extend the evening and reveal the garden's architecture after dark.
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Water, Fire & Pools
Still pools, runnels, and fire set into stone — the elements that make a landscape feel inevitable.
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Stewardship
We don't install and vanish. Seasonal care keeps the design true as the planting matures.
Selected Work
A few grounds we've made.
How we work
Design, build, steward.
Survey & Design
We walk the property, study its light and grade, and return with a master plan and hand-drawn renderings.
Build & Plant
Our own crews execute the stonework, grading, and planting — one team, start to finish, no subcontractor relay.
Steward
We return through the seasons to prune, edit, and tend, so the landscape holds its intended form for years.
Where we work
Across Fairfield County's shoreline and back-country.
We keep our calendar small and our radius comfortable — a handful of residential commissions a year, all within an easy drive of the studio.
- Greenwich
- New Canaan
- Darien
- Westport
- Wilton
- Ridgefield
- Weston
- Fairfield
- Rowayton
- Southport
The Studio
The same rigor as the house it surrounds.
Marigold & Stone was founded in 2011 on a simple conviction — that a landscape deserves the same rigor as the house it surrounds. From a studio in Fairfield County, Connecticut, we take on only a few residential commissions a year: designed, built, and tended by the same hands.
In their words
“They treated our two acres like a commission, not a job. Three years on, it looks like it has always been there.”
“The stonework alone is worth it — every wall feels like it grew out of the ground.”
“Most builders disappear after the install. Marigold & Stone still comes every spring.”
Before you ask
Questions, answered.
- How far ahead should we reach out?
- Most design work begins three to six months before a build. For spring installs we're usually planning the prior autumn — earlier if stonework or pool coordination is involved.
- Do you take on smaller gardens, or only full estates?
- Both. We take on a limited number of commissions a year regardless of scale; what matters is that the project wants to be designed and built with real care.
- What does a project typically cost?
- Every property is different, so we scope each individually after a site visit. Most full design-and-build commissions begin in the low six figures; focused garden or stonework projects can be considerably less.
- Who actually does the work?
- We do. The same studio designs, builds, and tends each project — our own crews handle the grading, stonework, and planting, with no subcontractor relay.
- Do you maintain what you build?
- Yes. Stewardship is part of the work — we return through the seasons to prune, edit, and tend, so the landscape holds its intended form as it matures.
- Are you licensed and insured?
- Fully. We're a registered Connecticut home-improvement contractor (CT HIC.0648215), bonded, and carrying general-liability and workers'-compensation coverage on every job.
Fairfield County, Connecticut
Begin your project.
We take on only a few commissions a year. If you have a place in mind, we'd like to hear about it.
By appointment · We typically reply within two business days