Claudia Vieira Landscape Design

We first found Claudia Vieira on Berkeley’s Parent’s Network, since I was looking for a flexible landscape designer or architect who would be willing to work with my excellent gardener, Gavino Argueta, to whom I am very loyal. I was particularly intersted in hiring someone who knew a lot about native CA plants. We used her first to convert our backyard to drout-​tolerant native CA plants. The results are stunning. Claudia is very reasonably priced, and she is a complete pleasure to work with. We next used her a couple of years later for a more major project: to give the front of our house in Orinda a complete «face lift.» She designed our front hardscape, which included converting our brick ranch house facing to a more natural stone look, and she designed and selected the native CA plants for our front yard, which we are also very happy with. She was also very resourceful in helping us find ways to get rid permanently of our old expansive, weed-​like, traditional-​style lawn. She is now helping us with the lighting design for our backyard as a finishing touch. I recommend Claudia without reservation. If you contact her, she will likely show you pictures of her work for us, since she deserves to be quite proud of it.