Terrain At Styer’s: Landscape Services
Terrain at Styer's offers a full range of residential landscape services. Designs can incorporate any of our unique containers, fountains, outdoor furniture and one of a kind artifacts from around the world. Since 1890, J. Franklin Styer Nurseries has provided the Brandywine Valley with premier landscape design and installation services, forging a tradition of excellence. Our design team of college-trained designers and registered landscape architects will work to help you create a distinctive garden for your taste and lifestyle. From simple foundation plantings to complex themed gardens to patios and walkways, we provide experienced landscape consultation, installation, and maintenance. We always strive to do our best, and our commitment to stand by our work and our word is known throughout the Brandywine Valley. At Terrain at Styer’s, we've been bringing people and plants together since 1890.
What is Design Build? The process is simple. We ask questions and listen carefully to your needs and desires--taking into consideration the special characteristics of your property. Our designs are developed with your input and approval throughout the process, detail by detail, from shared vision to a finalized master plan. Plants are then hand-selected and set aside for you. Crews are mobilized and work begins. Our team is with you all the way, from concept to completion. And years from now, we will still be here to fulfill our commitment to serve you.
Why choose Terrain at Styer's? We invest in only the finest quality plants and people. Our inventory of thousands of annuals, perennials, shrubs, groundcovers, vines, and trees is obtained from only the best and most talented growers. Our installation crews are trained professionals who are committed to following the latest horticultural guidelines. They work in all weather conditions to get your project done in a timely manner. Our designers take your vision from concept to reality. We capitalize on the unique opportunities presented by your property to create the perfect garden for you. Your garden is an important investment in your future and with Terrain at Styers as your partner, you’ll delight in and value it for years to come.
Our Designers
Eric Leeson, RLA, Landscape Architect, Marketing & Sales
Eric on design: Generally designing with understated elegance, I advise the utilization of bold, deliberate forms to create strong statements where appropriate. In striving to be ecologically correct, I stress preservation and the use of native plants and materials. Where possible, a design should follow the path of least resistance; don't force what isn't supposed to be on a site. As an innovative problem solver as much as an artistic type of designer, I emphasize that if a plan does not work or meet the clients' needs, it isn't a good solution no matter how great or original the idea.
Matt Sigda, Landscape Design & Sales
Matt on design: When asked what my design style is, I reply, "Whatever is necessary." Every client and site is unique. When creating a design, I want to respond to the needs and budget of the client, the site, and the architecture of the home. I have a passion for plants, and strive to put the right plant in the right place. A good design will meet the goals of the client as well as the landscape designer.
David Turberville, Landscape Design & Sales
Dave on design: The primary goal in my design process is to connect the client with the landscape. The setting then dictates how I use information gathered to form natural shapes and patterns. My designs incorporate artistic and emotional techniques that will give the client not only a visual experience, but an emotional one as well, whether it's a relaxed natural setting or a dramatic formal garden, or both. When you use the right plants horticulturally, then you have a design that works.
Tricia Voss, Landscape Design & Sales
Tricia on design: Listening is the most important part of my job. My goal is to create a landscape that is an extension of the clients' lifestyle and home. The transition between outdoors and indoors should be defined by plants instead of walls and furniture. The key to a great landscape is to combine color, texture, size, form and seasonal interest into a work of art that is ever changing. I love a challenge and am always trying new things, whether it is new plant material or a new approach to improve a difficult site.
