Susan Pollock Designs

New York’s Full Service Garden Professionals for your Residential or Commercial Garden Space

My crew and I provide personal service through consultation, design, to working on site.  We hand select all plant materials from local growers to ensure that our clients are getting the highest quality available. We are in the business to serve and satisfy our customers by listening, and responding to them with services that meet their needs and exceed their expectations.

Whether you are looking to install a new garden, or just want to revitalize an abandoned one, we have the skills to help you transform your space.  After your initial consultation we will create a garden custom designed to suit your unique personal style and work within your budget.  As all gardens require attention, we will create a design and maintenance proposal with detailed estimates of all costs. We are happy to collaborate with your interior designer, or architect to ensure that your outdoor space is in harmony with your interiors.

Our team include experienced New York City based designers, horticulturists, irrigation specialists, masons, carpenters, gardeners, and contractors who have the specific knowledge required to create, install and maintain a healthy garden or patio successfully. We transform beautify and maintain terraces, rooftops, planters, courtyards, backyards, front yards and more and provide all the service you need with one phone call:


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Before and After

Following are a few examples of gardens before and after design and installation in a variety of New York City spaces.

Before Installation
Before Installation

After Installation Plantings for Privacy After Installation False Boxwood Wall
and Planting for Privacy

Before Installation Before Installation

After Installation Plantings for Privacy After Upper East Side Living Room Terrace
after Fountain Restoration and False Boxwood Wall Covering.

Before Installation of Hot Tub Terrace

After False Boxwood Wall Installation

Terrace boxwoodAfter False Boxwood Installation

Hot Tub TerraceHot Tub Terrace Facing North

Roof Garden and False Lawn Installation

Before Installation

Roof Garden Installation

Before Installation

Upper West Side Community Roof Garden

Roof Climate Zone

Before Installation

Backyard GardenUWS Backyard Modern Garden

Before IntallationBefore Installation

After false lawnAfter Planting False Lawn Installation & Fish Pond Removal

Before Deck Installtion Before Backyard Restoration

Custom Designed Deck After Restoration Designed to Create Open Space for Entertaining.

Before InstallationBefore Installation

After InstallationRestored Manhattan Backyard

Before Installation

Restored Front Garden Terrace

BeforeBefore Installation

afterAfter Memorial Garden Installation

before photoBefore Installation

AfterBrooklyn Backyard One Year After Installation

Before Deck Installtion Before Backyard Installation

Custom Designed Deck After Installation Custom Designed Deck with Planting

English Garden Before Installation Tudor City English Garden

English Garden BackyardAfter Installation Tudor City English Garden

After InstallationTwo Years After Installation

Perennial GardenMaple Autumn Color with Mature Evergreen Camellias

Perennial GardenPerennial English Garden

Brooklun Garden Before Installation Brooklyn Native Garden

Brooklyn GardenAfter Installation Brooklyn Native Garden Restored

after photoTwo Years After Instillation of Low Maintenance Native Garden

Before Installation

One Year After Front Installation

Native Floral Garden in Montclair New Jersey

Before Installation

One Year After Native Garden Installation

New Jersey Before Installation Side Garden

New Jersey YardAfter Planting Installation New Jersey Backyard
Designed Using Existing rocks

backyard 5 years laterAfter Planting Installation New Jersey Backyard
Five Years Later

Before Installation Before Installation Upper East Side Community Garden

Upper East Side Community Garden After Installation Upper East Side Community Garden

Before Installation Before Installation Upper West Side Residential Building

Upper West Side Residential Building After Installation Spiral Boxwoods for Upper West Side Residential Building

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Garden Design Suited to Your Unique Personal Style

Among the many different garden styles in the world, my aim as a garden designer is to appreciate all their qualities by mixing them. Every garden is a palette to represent their owners tastes and needs. Modern or classical, a garden is very successful whether focused on only one type of garden style, or with mixed elements.

The gardens of France influenced garden making all through out Europe. The classical elements of the French garden landscape include; formal avenues of Lime trees, symmetrical flower beds (parterres), rectangular lawn, tunnel of Roses, cone shaped or topiary clipped shrubs, and palmettes of fruit trees.

The staple elements of the classical English garden are in many ways opposite of the French. The English garden style is based on irregular planting of trees, shrubs, perennials/annuals, free circulation, rolling lawns, an informally shaped pond or lake, and a Chinese influenced temple on top of a hill or cliff serving as the main focal point.

One of the goals of the Japanese gardens is to incorporate their outside space with their interiors based on simplicity, and harmony. They also aim to create an illusion of a larger landscape in a small space based on their natural rocky landscape. There are several key elements of the Japanese garden; rocks, red bridge, tea house, religious sculpture, Azaleas, Maples, Rhododendrons, and numerous kinds of water features for visual and auditory effects.

New and contemporary garden style traditionally complimented modern architecture, but now not always. In our ever changing fast paced world, people feel free to create a contemporary garden now matter what period their home is from. Whether you have a traditional or modern home, you can create a modern garden as long as it follows basic contemporary principles that extenuate the home with clean lines, a focus on materials, and bold but simple planting. The goal is to take the materials, colors, and textures from inside the home and extend them to your outdoor space. This is accomplished by sculpture, water features, and a strong focus on hard scape materials such as your deck, fence, or arbor.



Projects in New York

Presentation Slide Manhattan Presentation Realized Project Outdoor Planters

Rubin Museum of Art Rubin Museum of Art

Projects in France

PD1 PD1p Terrace Garden

PD2 PD2p Landscaped Backyard

PD3 PD3p Rooftop Garden

Presentation Sketch France Realized Garden Project France Mediterranean Garden

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Maintaining a Healthy and Vibrant Garden All Year Long

The amount of maintenance your garden needs depends on each gardens demands. Grasses, trees, and shrubs always need to be pruned and fertilized in order to promote continuous bloom. My goal as a designer/gardener is to maintain a gardens vitality by promoting healthy plant life, which will give back to the earth and it's owner. The success of each garden depends entirely on it's soil. I promote healthy soil by using mulch that gives back to the soil instead of taking away from it.

Each garden has a season that it looks its best, we can extend this period by seasonal planting. The design for seasonal color depends on what plants do best during specific times of year. For seasonal color annuals and perennials are used that have been time tested to provide seasonal interest/color for your gardens specific site conditions.

For the best seasonal color the following is recommended:


Superior Quality Materials, Plants, Trees, Flowers and Shrubs

For those clients who are interested we offer a variety native plants, and organic mulches in partnership with growers who specialize in top quality New York State native plants.

We offer you the best available:

Variety and Selection - Popular Plants for Urban Gardens

Camilla in Bloom

Camilla in Bloom



Pieris in Bloom

Spring Pieris in Bloom with Thyme



Variety of Herbs in Planter

Spring Herb Planter with Sage, Fennel, Thyme and Rosemary



Lavender in Summer Bloom

Summer Lavender



Juniper

Low Growing Junipers



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Manhattan's Full Service Garden and Landscape Professionals


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