Landscape designer · Gardener
Garden design, installation and care for homes and businesses. Thirty years of hands-on work, from the tropical climate of Rio de Janeiro to the four seasons of New Jersey and the gardens of South Florida.
What he does
USA · Coconut Creek, Florida
Backyard pool area redesigned as an outdoor lounge. A bamboo privacy screen was built and installed along the deck, a custom bar painted and fitted with stools, and the space framed with tropical palms and shade sails.
USA · Coconut Creek, Florida
Renovated planting beds for a two-story home: red ti plants as focal points, clipped shrubs along the paver walkway, spider plants and ground covers along the house, finished with mulch and edging. Landscape lighting shown at night.
USA · Roselle, New Jersey
Complete front yard makeover: river rock beds with stone borders, evergreens, a Japanese maple as the centerpiece, a climbing rose arbor and path lighting. The same garden is shown in spring, at night and under snow.
Brazil · Humaitá, Rio de Janeiro
An enclosed courtyard around a small pool, planted in layers: frangipani and bougainvillea overhead, climbing vines on the walls, and potted specimens on the terracotta herringbone floor.
Brazil · Humaitá, Flamengo and Jardim Botânico, Rio
Regular care of balcony and terrace container gardens: repotting, pruning, feeding and training climbers for apartments across Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil · Pendotiba, Niterói
Garden for a hillside residence with a timber pergola entrance, stepping-stone paths, bromeliad borders and palms, connecting the driveway, stairs and gravel areas.
Brazil · Badu, Niterói
A mature tropical garden with philodendrons, areca palms, bamboo and flowering shrubs arranged in raised beds around paved courtyards and timber stairs.
Brazil · Charitas, Niterói
Bromeliads and purple tradescantia planted directly into an old stone retaining wall, with stone steps set into ground cover and a border of ixora and ornamental grasses at the street.
Brazil · Icaraí, Niterói
Terraces of a three-level penthouse facing the bay: palms and cycads in large pots around a reflecting pool, and a planted bed beneath a deck tree.
Brazil · Brazil
Tropical planting around a pool at the edge of native forest: banana plants, monstera and a timber pergola over flagstone paving. Nearby, a slate spillway feeds a small planted pond.
Brazil · Brazil
A timber boardwalk runs from the covered porch to the pool deck, lined with clipped ixora hedges. Crotons, pygmy date palms and dracaenas screen the fence, with ferns and potted plants on the porch.
Brazil · Brazil
Street-facing garden for a family home: a purple wreath vine trained over the carport, firecracker plant and ixora along the cobblestone driveway, and cosmos, heliconias and shrubs filling the beds.
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