About Studio Petrichor
Learn about the team transcending limitations
OUR MISSION
Inspiring a global paradigm shift influencing humanity’s connection with nature.
Studio Petrichor is a group of compassionate individuals on a journey to manifest meaningful change in the world. We do this through transformational and environmentally-aligned landscaping practices.
Our goal is to help individuals and communities cultivate stronger, richer relationships with their environment. Along the way, we educate and empower one another to support and protect Mother Nature’s living systems.
When we see and believe our actions and lives matter, it places us in a role of responsibility. It is this belief that will bring about a more beautiful, abundant, connected world.
OUR APPROACH
We are reimagining the practice of landscape implementation, design, and care.
Our unique methods are about tapping into Nature’s intelligence and challenge the status quo. We support the optimization of natural resources, while acknowledging they are processes. Enhancing biodiversity and fostering relationships between the land and our communities is our goal. See our work.
Studio Petrichor’s design aesthetic is an embodiment of life’s variable (wild) nature
OUR TEAM
We are a group of caring individuals committed to sharing our love of the natural world
Shawn Maestretti
Principal Landscape Architect
(aka plant daddy, landscape medium, contractor, arborist, alchemist, speaker, educator)
A collaborative visionary and optimistic “possibilitarian”, he is a member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corp, a Kiss the Ground Soil Advocate, and an activist in the movement to care for the environment.
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Shawn has been presenting on Nature’s intelligence and humanity’s impact on climate change in his presentation series Regenerative Landscapes and the Climate Crisis, Reimagining Landscape and Lifestyle, and Co-creating as Interbeings (Landscape Architecture and The Death of the Ego)
His personal mission is to reconnect with the natural world, tread lightly on the land, nurture biodiversity, protect water, and bring people together.
Repeat Landscape Design Teacher at Theodore Payne Foundation (A Legacy Native Plant and Wildflower Nursery)
Shawn always considers impacts on flora, fauna, fungi, soil, water, the environment, the interconnectedness of our actions, and of course, a changing climate.
Shawn’s legacy is his commitment to leaving a more beautiful world for his son and everyone else.
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ASLA Member: #1135456
CA Landscape Architect: #6203
Certified Arborist: #WE-12184A
Certified Permaculture Designer
Contractor C-27: #12184A
Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD)
Leigh Adams
Landscape Designer, Educator, Consultant
(aka water witch, muse, and spirit of light)
Leigh is an educator and eco-sensitive designer. She has been a groundbreaking, horticultural interpreter at the LA County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens for many years and has trained many county agencies in regenerative practices. She has conducted hundreds of hands-on, organically based workshops with local schools, private citizens and professional groups. Her love of collaboration and education infuse all aspects of her work, leaving participants with a profound sense of empowered accomplishments.
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Leigh is the muse, inspiration, artist, water harvester, and wisdom-keeper of Studio Petrichor. Her ability to see her way into a landscape and name the intention of the work for each project contributes to the manifestation of enchanting and healing (for client and earth), nature-focused designs. She is instrumental to keeping the heart and intention in all of our work.
Quite simply, when Leigh speaks, you listen. She has an incredible way of captivating with her words and brings an infectious wonder to all of our lives.
Kyle Massie
Senior Landscape Designer & Project Manager
(aka The Synergist)
Kyle is an enthusiastic designer with a natural ability to connect with and inspire clients while guiding them through the design process. He is a wealth of plant knowledge, and has years of experience in project management, rendering and installation.
With a bright spirit, boundless curiosity, and dynamic focus, Kyle’s passion for thoughtful design and the living world is contagious.
Kyle graduated from UCLA Extension’s landscape architecture program in 2023, and is currently working towards his licensure.
What our clients say about us:
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This has been the answer to my despair over what has been happening to the environment. It feels so good to be able to go into my backyard and to see, to feel the life that is now happening.
Mary Haden
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Studio Petrichor are experts in their field and have a true passion for the environment, for building community and for building connection with the natural systems which sustain us. They approach their work with great attention to quality and making a meaningful impact.
Ursula Schmidt
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Our yard now goes through actual California seasons and we are visited by rare bees, dragonflies, and birds at different times in the year. Even though we live in Hollywood, our native garden has a natural rhythm and offers an urban retreat.