With twenty plus years of hands-on experience working and educating in gardens, I am passionate about providing knowledgeable and sensitive support for creating and tending green spaces. I am most inspired by native and edible landscapes, and I am lit up by nurturing gardens that support people to grow into closer relationship with Nature right where they live.

GARDEN CARE =

I provide hands-on care for your green space. This may include design (beginning a garden), revitalization (cleaning up a garden), or maintenance (keeping a garden going season to season).

GARDEN MENTORING =

I support you to cultivate greater confidence and capability in tending your own green space. This may include coaching, advising, and/or working side-by-side in the garden with you to unfold your vision and grow your own green skills.

Cealila has been helping me maintain my extensive garden for the past year, and I feel so lucky to have her support. She brings so much wisdom, care, patience, and dedication. Whether we’re working together, side-by-side, or she’s on her own, my gardens are happier than ever, and I’ve learned so much from Cealila along the way. I recommend her to anyone needing a true plant expert who is also humble, hardworking, and affordable. She’s your gal!

Flora Bowley, artist, author, & educator

I’d never made a garden on my own and hired Cealila to help me get started. She is the real deal. She helped me to identify where I could create my garden plot and to prepare the ground. She coached me about when to plant and how to plant, and she worked along with me so I could watch how she used her hands and interacted with the plants. More than this, she gave me a new vision of my yard and my home. To her wise and seasoned eyes, it’s a thriving community of life out there. She spotted so many dynamics that I was asleep to. I can’t say I absorbed all her expertise, but some of her sensibility did seep into me, and I have a new relationship with the outside of my own house!

Marc Polonsky, writer