Hadley Berkowitz Landscape Design creates thoughtful, ecologically focused landscapes on Martha’s Vineyard that feel at home in their surroundings.
My designs draw inspiration from the Island’s distinctive landscape, using native plants alongside carefully selected species that are well adapted to local conditions. The result is a landscape that is beautiful, resilient, and connected to its setting, one that supports the natural environment while requiring fewer resources and less maintenance over time.
I believe a successful landscape should reflect both the character of its place and the people who live there. Through a collaborative design process, I work with each client to create outdoor spaces that feel personal, inviting, and enduring, places to gather, relax, and experience the natural world just outside the door.
The COGdesign team behind the redesign of the entrance to the Fenway Victory Gardens.
Superintendent of Boston Public Schools Brenda Casselius speaks at the unveiling of the Peace Mural painted by Boston students with muralist Alex Cook at Magnolia Street Park in Roxbury.
Hadley Berkowitz is a landscape designer, writer, photographer, and lifelong plant enthusiast whose work is rooted in a deep appreciation for plants and the landscapes of New England.
After a career in publishing, Hadley pursued her longstanding interest in horticulture and landscape design at the Boston Architectural College, studying landscape and planting design, botany, landscape history, and sustainable design. She earned a certificate in landscape design from the Landscape Institute in 2016 and is a certified Master Gardener.
Her approach to design combines an eye for composition with a strong knowledge of plants and an emphasis on landscapes that are ecologically responsible, resilient, and appropriate to their setting. She is particularly interested in using native and regionally adapted plants to create gardens that feel natural to their surroundings while remaining thoughtfully designed.
Hadley’s connection to Martha’s Vineyard has developed over nearly three decades of time spent on the Island with her family. She has owned a home on the Vineyard since 2010 and has lived on the Island full-time for the past six years. Over that time, she has developed a particular appreciation for the native plant communities that give the Vineyard its distinctive character—from lowbush blueberry carpeting the woodland floor to bayberry along the roadsides and windswept eastern red cedars shaped by the Island’s coastal conditions.
That sense of place is central to her approach to landscape design. Hadley creates gardens that respond to their surroundings, using native and regionally adapted plants to create landscapes that are beautiful, resilient, and ecologically responsible. Her goal is not to impose a garden on the landscape, but to create one that feels as though it belongs there.
Hadley is also deeply committed to expanding access to well-designed green space. She serves as Board Chair of COGdesign, a nonprofit that provides pro bono landscape design services to community organizations throughout Greater Boston. Before joining the board, she designed two COGdesign projects: the entrance to the Fenway Victory Gardens and Magnolia Street Garden in Roxbury.
