London Landscapes LLC

Norman Asher

Feb 24th, 2022

London Landscapes has been our landscape architect for 22 years at our home in Chevy Chase. They have designed our property through multiple phases, gradually turning a neglected lot into a showpiece featured on garden tours. They did a wonderful job with the gardens but also with terraces, patios, planting beds, a pergola and a fish pond. They are very responsive and also quite cost-effective compared to bigger outfits.

Susan Van Buren

Feb 3rd, 2022

Barbara worked with us to redesign and replant the back and side gardens of our 19th century carriage house in Baltimore, including a multi-season cottage/pollinator garden, creating new walkways and sitting areas, and incorporating new plants into an existing mature landscape. Always the professional, she brings a deep knowledge of plants and garden design to a truly exciting and fun collaborative process. She was generous with her time and always available to answer our questions. In addition, we used her preferred contractors for stone work and irrigation, and they all spoke very highly of her, both personally and professionally. We look forward to many years of gardening together.

Andrews Irrigation

Feb 22nd, 2021

We have collaborated alongside Barbara with London Landscapes LLC for over 30 years. She is a talented landscape designer with creative ideas and strong attention to detail. Her expertise in project management while producing showcase landscapes is magnificent. Barbara has extensive knowledge of plants, trees, stone work, water features, irrigation and lighting. We have thoroughly enjoyed working with her for decades and highly recommend for your landscape projects.

William Hanlon

Jan 19th, 2021

I have relied on Barbara's services for the past twenty years, including her complete redesign of both the front and rear yards of my home. Her work covers the gamut from landscape design to hardscape installation to full planting. I can't imagine anyone knows more or cares more about plants and flowers than Barbara. She owns her projects. More important, she's a total delight to work with - listens carefully to what you're looking for but able at the same time to steer you towards even better possibilities and away from your bad ideas. A sales person at an outdoor store on seeing a picture of my rear yard recently told me that it was the most beautiful back yard she had ever seen. All that credit goes to Barbara!

David Williams

Jan 8th, 2021

Over the course of a couple of seasons, Barbara designed and installed garden renovations in our front and back gardens in Chevy Chase, MD. Her work is nothing short of extraordinary. She took existing landscapes that were pleasant but somewhat ho-hum and random and transformed them into magical settings with unifying themes. Her biggest challenge was in our back yard, where we had been confronted by serious water problems for years. She helped design a riverstone swale for the water itself. Then, near the swale, she designed and installed a gorgeous palette of shrubs, perennials, ground covers and small trees that can tolerate, even welcome, "wet feet" and that are thriving and happy. In the drier parts of the property, both front and back, she designed and installed an amazingly diverse array of plantings that are individually beautiful but that hold together so well thematically.
Barbara is a great designer who creates gardens that beautifully fit both what the local conditions require and what her clients are looking for. She has an amazing eye for color and texture combinations; has an encyclopedic knowledge of plants (and has introduced me to many plants I had never heard of but now cannot do without); is an excellent communicator and collaborator; and is an absolute pleasure to work with. I cannot recommend her more highly.