Garden design & help so that you can live your life in a garden.
Julie Witmer works to create beautiful and ecologically sensitive gardens across the continental United States. She began in perennial production and garden nursery retail before earning a Certificate of Horticulture—Britain’s professional gardener qualification—from the Royal Horticultural Society in Wisley, UK. She is a popular local speaker, teaching classes for all ages, and is a published garden photographer in books by Timber Press, Kew Gardens, and Rodale. Her own garden, Havenwood, is nearly one acre and divided into fifteen diverse garden spaces which grow a wide variety and succession of plants throughout the year.
With a keen eye for design and place, Julie has worked with private clients for nearly twenty years, helping them realize their own garden dreams, and providing one-on-one coaching in order to grow the skills of the gardener alongside their garden.
She shares online classes and garden inspiration on her Substack, Julie Witmer Gardens and Instagram at @juliewitmergardens.
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Julie Witmer is the real deal. We’ve been profoundly blessed by her care for creation, her passion for gardens as places of beauty, work, and rest, her deep knowledge and expertise, and her great joy in shaping the world around us for God’s glory. It’s no exaggeration to say that my life is better because of the vision she brought to our little property.
—Andrew Peterson, Nashville, TN
Julie’s expertise in garden design is second only to her contagious love for green and growing things. I’ve been gardening all my life, but Julie has finally helped me understand what it means… to embrace the unique challenges and opportunities of my particular place…
Julie doesn’t just design gardens—she grows gardeners.
—Lanier I., Alanta, GA
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