Los Angeles Landscape Architect & Landscape Designer

Shelley Sparks is a Los Angeles Landscape Architect and a humble gardener. Through her practice as a Landscape Designer, she creates harmony, healing and beneficial qualities to her client's garden environments. As a Los Angeles residential garden designer, she believes that as we bring our environments into balance we live happier and healthier lives, benefit all that we relate to and help heal the earth.

Shelley opened her firm, Harmony Gardens in 1993. Her practice as a landscape architect and garden designer is devoted primarily to single family residences because she is committed to helping individuals in the Los Angeles and Southern California area create the gardens of their dreams. She believes that every garden is co creation between herself, the client, the architecture and the land.

She was previously employed as a senior associate at Raymond Hansen Associates in Los Angeles, where she designed numerous single and multifamily housing projects as well as commercial and industrial projects. She also worked for a Fortune 500 builder developer as the in house Landscape Designer for tract and multifamily housing projects in San Diego, Las Vegas and Los Angeles environs.

She has been licensed as a Landscape Architect for more than 25 years and has designed award winning residential landscapes. She has taught classes in landscape subjects including "The Garden As a Healing Space" and “Horticultural Therapy for Landscape Design” , Elements of a Healing Garden for Special Needs Children” for U.C.L.A. Extension and "How to Design Your Own Garden" for the Learning Annex. She was a guest designer on HGN “Surprise Gardener”.

Shelley is a featured speaker for the National Convention of the American Society of Landscape Architects 1997 and 1998.