Best Landscape Architects in Florida

A landscape architect designs everything outside the house — the site itself: the gardens and planting, the pools, terraces and outdoor rooms, and the grading, drainage and hardscape that hold it all together. It is a distinct, licensed discipline, separate from the building architect who designs the house and the maintenance contractor who mows the lawn, and across Florida's design-driven cities, from Miami to the Gulf Coast, dedicated landscape architecture studios shape the outdoor environments that define high-end homes.

Landscape design carries particular weight in Florida, where the climate makes outdoor living a year-round reality and the garden becomes an extension of the house. The subtropical sun, the summer rains, the storms and the many waterfront sites all demand specific plants, materials and drainage strategies, and the state's tropical-modern design tradition has produced landscape architects fluent in this particular place. The best of them read the site, design the planting and the outdoor rooms around how a client wants to live, and coordinate design through construction with the wider project team. This guide organizes Florida's landscape architects by city, beginning with Miami, so you can find a studio whose style, plant palette and portfolio match your home and its setting.