About Us

Improving yards and gardens since 1994

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Our garden designs give you the attention to details that are important to you.

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Cottage Gardener, Ltd. has been developing a wide variety of gardens for our clients since 1994. From the beginning, Michael Patek, founder and principle designer, established a hands-on approach in providing our services. Our primary company goal has been to provide high quality landscape designs and installations.

Photo of a urban backyard oasis where a stone retaining wall encloses a water feature surrounded by a lush planting of perennials and native grasses highlighted by decorative patio pots and containers.

We strive to create unique designs that give you more than a cookie cutter approach to the gardens in your yard. Our portfolio gives examples of many different styles of design. The only theme that repeats itself in our designs is the constant array of plant material incorporated into a variety of color, texture, and seasonal form compositions that we highlight with natural stone and water. In creating lush full mature gardens we have achieved our goal, capturing the essence of what many of our customer's desire.