Create

We create Water Features and gardens for your home site.


Produce 

We produce beautiful, well-conceived Water Feature solutions, from planning and design to installation and maintenance.


Service

We service everything including residential and roof-top gardens to grand-scale. 


Plan and Implement

In addition to creating expertise Water Feature landscapes, we can also provide landscape design plans for DIY (do-it-yourself) implementation and maintenance or your local landscape contractor. We are committed to helping you efficiently live a more sustainable, eco-friendly lifestyle while creating a harmonious, successful, and gorgeous landscape with flair. We apply environmentally responsible practices.

Who We Are

We are a professional collaborative landscape design group with master-level expertise in designing and building creative solutions in the horticulture industry. We bring many different disciplines together to achieve innovative and practical solutions to meet design-plan objectives. 

Jerome Skuba, MFA, PhD, Principal
For over fifty years, J. Skuba, has been on a path devoted to honing a skilled aesthetic eye: working as an Ornamental Horticulturist, Art School Professor, Industrial Designer, Builder, and Garden Designer. Many years have been spent observing and understanding Nature in all its forms and moods, for Nature is the language of the garden. 

J. Skuba has over 50 years experience in the horticulture industry, with 25 of those years engaged as Principal and Senior Landscape Designer. He has a Bachelor of Science in Horticulture from the University of Illinois, a Master of Fine Art in Sculpture & Design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Japanese Garden Design from Columbia Pacific University. He previously taught at the Dayton Art Institute and Rhode Island School of Design. His gardens have been featured in Architectural Digest. He is a contributor to articles in Sukiya Living: The Journal of Japanese Gardening. ISA CERTIFIED ARBORIST, IL4235A

A sampling of clients include:

  • Chicago Botanic Garden

  • Chicago Park District

  • The Morton Arboretum

  • Residential gardens throughout the Chicago metropolitan region