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Garden Concept
Design
The founding concept for a garden, drawn to the architecture of the site, its overall style and the way it will be lived in.
from $2,500
Terra Anima — the living garden
HONG LUC
We create harmony between people and nature. Project by project.
Our Philosophy
Structure, then balance —
then a character of its own.
HONG LUC designs gardens the way a composer writes a score. First the structure: how a space is entered, where the eye rests, how one zone flows into the next.
Then the balance: proportion between stone and green, light and shade, the built and the grown.
And finally the character — the detail that could belong to no other garden but yours.
Services
A Garden of Possibilities
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Garden Concept
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Landscape
Master Planning
Whole-site planning that distributes green zones, pathways, resting places and decorative elements into one coherent territory.
from $1,500
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Decorative
Garden Projects
Ornamental gardens, borders, flower beds and themed compositions designed as small, deliberate works of planting.
from $1,800
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Outdoor Living
Space Design
Patios, terraces, pavilions and quiet corners — outdoor rooms shaped for how you actually gather and rest.
from $2,700
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Planting Scheme
Development
Placement plans for trees, shrubs and perennials, arranged for structure, texture and a garden that reads well from every angle.
from $1,400
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Seasonal
Landscape Planning
A garden planned to stay beautiful across the year — timed for bloom, colour and structure through every season.
from $2,200
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Custom
Landscape Projects
Bespoke schemes built around the particulars of a site, the wishes of the owner and a concept made for that place alone.
from $2,300
The Living Palette
A garden is written
in four different hands.
We design for the whole year, so a space is never bare. Choose a season to see how the palette turns.
Everything leans toward the light. Soft greens, first blossom, a sense of beginning.
Fresh foliageNew growth green
Early blossomPale orchard pink
Bulb lightNarcissus gold
Fresh mossDamp stone green
- Magnolia & ornamental cherry
- Hellebore and early narcissus
- Unfurling ferns along shaded paths
The garden at full voice. Deep greens, long shadows, the hum of a space fully alive.
Canopy greenFull-leaf shade
Rose & peonyWarm bloom
Lavender hazeDusk violet
Meadow goldGrasses in sun
- Roses, salvias and lavender drifts
- Ornamental grasses catching the breeze
- Shade trees for the heat of the day
A slow, warm exhale. Bronze, russet and ember, with seedheads left to stand.
Turning leafMaple bronze
Ember redLate border
Dry seedheadStanding grass
Fading greenEvergreen frame
- Acers and liquidambar for colour
- Sedum, echinacea and standing seedheads
- Late asters for the last of the pollinators
Structure revealed. Bare branches, evergreen bones, frost tracing every line we drew.
EvergreenWinter structure
Bare stemBranch & bark
Frost lightCold morning
Dormant goldFaded grass
- Clipped evergreens holding the shape
- Dogwood and willow for coloured stems
- Hellebores and structure left to catch frost
Words from the Garden
They did not give us the garden we asked for. They gave us the one we did not yet know how to describe.
Every season the courtyard becomes a different room. Nothing about it feels designed, and that is the whole art of it.
We came with a bare slope and a small budget. We left with a plan we could grow into, one year at a time.
The studio listened more than it spoke. By the first sketch, they already understood how we live outdoors.
Our Approach
The Path to the Garden
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Stage One
Immersion
We meet, read the site and listen closely — light, soil, sightlines and the way you want to live outdoors. Nothing is drawn until the place is understood.
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Stage Two
Sketch
The concept takes shape — zoning, circulation and the first structural moves. Ideas are tested quickly on paper before any of them harden.
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Stage Three
Visualization
Three-dimensional models and planting schemes turn the concept into something you can walk through in your mind before a single stone is laid.
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Stage Four
Realization
We stay with the project through build and planting, holding the concept true from first delivery to the season the garden begins to grow into itself.
The Invitation
Let's begin
your story.
Tell us about the space and how you hope to live in it. Every garden we make begins as a single, unhurried conversation.