Sarla DeGeorge has always been drawn to the beauty of garden plants & garden designs.

Throughout her youth, she frequently accompanied her mother - an avid gardener & artist - on field trips to arboretums, grand estates, formal gardens & private garden tours around New England. The pair would keep journals of what they saw along the way, taking notes, sketching flowers, leaves & pressing flower samples in between the pages to reference later.

Sarla studied art at the Oregon College of Art & Craft in Portland, Oregon & subsequently spent about a decade working as a studio potter, painter & art teacher as her primary career. Still, her love & appreciation for the beauty of plants & gardening never fell too far away. Sarla took the position as ‘head gardener’ & managed several estates for a very well-established landscaping company in Big Sky, Montana for a few summers after college & she eventually started her own garden maintenance business in Vermont in 2000 as a seasonal supplement to her art career.

In 2005, at age 30 Sarla decided to change her primary career as a studio artist & teacher, returning to school to become a formally trained Landscape Designer. Sarla gained her certificate of Landscape Design from the California School of Garden Design while living in Santa Cruz, CA.

In 2009 Sarla received her Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) from the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center (OAEC) in Occidental, California. OAEC is considered to be one of the most reputable learning centers of this kind in the United States.

As a coastal New England native Sarla is quite familiar with the plants that grow in this region. Additionally, Sarla has resided & traveled extensively to many more botanically diverse regions of the world - observing, taking notes, pressing, painting & sketching the flora & fauna wherever she goes.

The varying green tones & textures of exotic specimen conifers in the Pacific North West, the big bold tropical leaf forms of Coastal California & Hawaii, the bright colors of the Latin American jungles - to name a few - all have made a tremendous impact on her design aesthetic & how she uses plants in her designs.

Sarla has been back in New England for over a decade now, this time settling into the beautiful mountain town of Stowe, Vermont.

Sarla brings with her years of training & practical experience as well as her artistic eye to create refreshing contemporary gardens that are a stunning blend with the traditional cottage garden design style & plant palette of New England.