Living Roots Eco Design & Plant Nursery - St. Petersburg, Florida

Suzanne Prieur

Amanda & crew completed my project yesterday & it was a wonderful experience from the first visit to the last.

I love gardening & am pretty talented at design, but I do not know Florida natives. My mother, like her mother before her, was a gardener, so when she left me a bit of $$$, I wanted to create a garden to honor her & the all that she had taught me. I interviewed several people, but Amanda was the only one who understood my vision.

She guided me expertly in plant choices & placement, reconstructed my irrigation system to conserve water, sent me conscientious, hard-working & talented guys who were pleasant to have around all day & gave me a garden that would fully delight my family.

Bonus- The butterflies showed up the day the plants were delivered!

Kristina Swift

Amanda and her team are extremely professional, knowledgeable and a pleasure to work with. We have a small yard that needed a spruce up, especially after the hurricanes came through. They worked tirelessly to get our yard prepared for new residents and my only regret is not hiring them sooner! Thank you!

Nonie Castro

A year ago, my front yard was just dust, sand and patches of weeds. Every time it rained, it would wash out into the street. I needed to do something. I knew I didn't want to try to grow grass, or to get pallets of sod, I wanted flowers, butterflies, a safe haven for pollinators, birds and rabbits. I looked for landscapers online, and most of the photos on their websites were of the "typical" landscaping plants, like - the same thing all in a row with red mulch and grass nearby. If that's your thing, fine - but I was looking for a more natural, Florida friendly design and the gallery on the Living Roots website made me think this was a place that would get what I was going for.

I met with Amanda and - sure enough - she totally understood what I wanted. I'm a total novice at all of this, and fortunate for me, Amanda is patient and happy to help even a newbie get up to speed. She came up with a wonderful design, and her competent (and hard working!) team made quick work of the installation. She continues to follow up with me, and when a couple of plants she installed failed to thrive, she replaced them without question.

I highly recommend her, I could not be happier with the way my "not lawn" yard turned out.

The attached photos are right after the install, they don't really do it justice, it's really beautiful. Once the plants fill in and grow more, it will look even more lush and tropical.

Domestic Gourmet

My business grew due to the edible garden overhaul from Living Roots Eco Design. I reached out at the beginning of the pandemic and started slowly; now, I have an entire food forest with every edible fruit, vegetable, and herb I can grow in zone 9b. I always thought I had a black thumb, but through the tutelage of LRED I've learned my thumb is pretty green! I develop recipes now from scratch, mostly with ingredients I grow myself from plants or seeds I sourced from Living Roots. I'm very grateful to Amanda and her company for broadening my life and introducing me to gardening, coupled with my love of cooking, I'm in heaven!

Lindsay Petty Wattam

Amanda and her team did a great job transforming our front yard into a native habitat and food paradise. Amanda took all my disjointed ideas and turned them into a thoughtful plan and vision, provided great guidance on native, food, and medicinal plants, before converting our weedy "lawn" into an irrigation-free, beautiful landscape. She even incorporated structures we already had but never had a proper home for, including the arbor, a bench, and a birdbath. More than a month in and the plants are flourishing, the raised bed is already being harvested, and we can't wait to start on the next project with her team.

sarah davidson

I was struggling with watering consistently so they recommended an Olla to keep my beds consistently watered. I buried it in the middle of my 3x3 bed and it’s helping bring an epic crop of cucumbers which have high water needs. No worries if I miss a day 🙂

Elizabeth

Fantastic team! I partnered with Amanda on a landscape install for a design I had made for my client. Her team treated it as it was their own, providing the outmost care and respect for the property and client. Would highly recommend for any and all of their services!

Jen Brown

Love this team. Learning so much and they've done amazing things with my yard. I came to them looking for ways to go "native" in my yard, decrease my need for water/mowing etc..and they've done a lot of amazing work. Recommend them ALL the time!