Life is a Garden

We help you with every step in your property transformation.

Get a beautiful, reliable and functional garden that will extend your home to the outdoors and bring nature to your home.

Our mission: to connect people with nature and people with people by bringing nature home.

We build excitement, positivity, motivation and connectivity with family, community, friends, and with our own peace by changing our outdoor experience throughout the Niagara region.

While our relatively long growing season allows for a wide and diverse possibility of plant materials, it can be overwhelming to choose the plants that work best for our gardens. Our growing season extends longer than most of the country but also experiences many changes within a season. Our goal is to remove confusion and overwhelm in favour of clarity and organization. We look forward to sharing with you all we know and guide and support you along your own garden journey.

We are passionate about gardens and we know very well the profound contribution they provide on so many levels because we live it in our every day.

Gardens are meant to reduce stress, not cause it, so let us provide you a stress-free garden set up while you kick back, watch your plants grow, and enjoy the transformation of your space.

“Sharona designed our back garden this spring 2020. She has a lot of passion in the work she does.
My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed working alongside with Sharona. She was beyond helpful and understanding in regards to our desire as how we wanted our garden to look. She coached us step by step just like a personal trainer.

Sharona was very easy to get a hold of when we had any questions or concerns. She always did follow up calls to make sure everything was going to plan and the plants were thriving and doing well.
We are so in love with our garden and will be making lots of memories with family and friends.
Thank-you Sharona for all your support! We couldn’t have done it without you”. ~ Harprit Dhinsay

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The first step to work together is a GARDEN CONSULT

During this hour long visit we’ll help you determine your own goals for your outdoor space. We’ll review your desires for your garden and the conditions and needs of your property.

We will hone in on your style and the functions intended for your outdoor space. We will discuss types of planting materials and their various attributes and effects as well as guide you in the selection of hardscape materials.

We will make a dream-list as well as a sketch with the site inventory.

Working personally with you each step of the way is our favorite part. You are the center of the story and we want to create a garden you will absolutely love!

After your consult, we will work to design a beautiful and functional garden that fits your desires, needs and hopes. We apply solid horticultural and design knowledge, principles and experience to create the plan that works best.

We’ll take all the exact measurements and work on preparing a custom design drafted to scale. We complete the rendering of the garden on a PDF format as well as an estimate for your new garden.

Then we will meet again to review the design, discuss options and decide on improvements.

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UPON APPROVAL

We will order your materials and plants and get to work on the installation of hardscape features and plant-beds.

We do all the heavy lifting and teach you all you need to know to make your garden thrive.

Our consultants remove the overwhelm and make your home garden the way it was meant to be – beautiful, relaxing and well-designed.

We can’t wait to meet with you and discuss the possibilities for your own space. Click below to book your consult. We can’t wait to meet you and help your dream garden come to life.

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OUR SPECIALTY

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We strive to bring your dream garden to reality.

“Creating harmony and being in one accord with your surrounding is living with a garden that works.”

Sharona Goren

“The main element in your garden is you.”

Sharona Goren

“So much can be transformed in our world through a garden.”

Sharona Goren

“Establishing a garden is being connected to the world outside and within, to loved ones, friends, family, neighbors, and nature itself.”

Sharona Goren

“Take the peace of your garden, its charm and energy with you throughout the week.”

Sharona Goren

about us

At SLD, we believe in the therapeutic power of nature. Even as you exit your home to a busy day ahead, you notice the swelling buds of your favorite shrub or tree, the fall colour-composition of a garden bed, drooping fruit, a bird, an evening harvest for yourself. These subtle acknowledgements have a profound effect on the mind throughout the day. Having nature thrive in your private environment brings healing and harmony to the people observing it.

When designing your garden, we look at the small details, so that your garden will reflect your lifestyle, your needs and the needs of your property.

We strive to realize your dreams and aspirations and bring a sense of completeness into your life.

We look closely at what appeals to you. Here are some options to consider….

Have breakfast in the gazebo surrounded by lush gardens and chirping birds.
Entertain family and friends with a BBQ
Read and reflect in a quiet and sheltered place.
Watch wildlife such as birds, butterflies and hummingbirds passing through your gardens.
Be satisfied every time you drive up to your home with well-balanced, style appropriate curb appeal that brings out the best in your home.
Enjoy areas for recreational activities.
Create a stunning, low maintenance swimming pool landscape.
Have a children’s garden and play area that will connect your children to nature and friends by experiencing all 5 senses.
Sit around a bonfire with friends.
Grow a quaint herb garden outside your kitchen.
Experience a stunning and productive edible landscape dotted with flowers that is designed for surprising eye appeal while feeding and enhancing your family’s nutrition and diversity of tastes and culinary opportunities.
Relive childhood memories with plants from your past.
Help the local declining native wildlife by incorporating their host shrubs and perennials.
Bring fresh-cut flowers into your indoors.
Observe nature unfold through the seasons.

More than thinking about the above options in our designs, we bring these values and principles into your design:

Love our land
Love our people
Love our neighborhood and towns
Increase the sustainability of our property
Create a landscape that works

We will listen, provide options, suggestions and research the best solutions to make the installation memorable, exciting and rewarding.

Our goal is to create a garden that makes sense and engages all the senses.

Meet Sharona

After years of fostering a growing love and passion for horticulture, environmental restoration and study of related topics, Sharona took the step into a professional career enrolling in the Niagara College School of Environment and Horticulture. Naturally, she could not get enough of her studies and her hunger for learning grew even more. She graduated with the college seal of honours in Landscape Technology and is happy to implement her skills and experience in her work.

Sharona also has a passion for permaculture and edible landscapes and has a keen interest in therapeutic gardening and the impact that gardening has on people and the environment. She manages experimental gardens on her own property where she practices growing a thriving urban food forest and pollinator gardens with a large diversity of plant materials.