After working for a few award winning landscape design firms, our owner, Sue Mitchell, left the industry professionally but never personally. For two decades, Sue continued to deepen her knowledge in the best way there is to learn; by keeping a garden, day after day, season after season, year after year.

In 2022, Sue decided to return to her life-long love professionally by starting her own company, Shamar Gardens. Translated from Hebrew, shamar means ‘to guard & keep.’ According to Genesis, the first man and woman were placed in a garden with the instructions to “work it and keep it. (shamar).”

We believe gardening is a sacred task, nothing less than the oldest and most fundamental occupation given to humanity. As a company, we desire to use our own hard won wisdom to help our clients gardens thrive, whether under our care or theirs.

Further, we want gardens to be accessible for everyone. As such, we have intentionally structured our company so that we can work with anyone, no matter the size of the garden or budget.