My name is Diana Gardner-Williams, also the name of my landscaping company. Born and raised as a bona-fide Gardner.
Buffalo, NY was my birth place and currently reside in the Greensboro, NC area with my family. A Bachelor of Science degree in Landscape Architecture was obtained from North Carolina Agricultural and Techincal State University in 1998. I worked for a small landscape design/build company for 1 year before starting Diana Gardner-Williams, Landscape Design and Installation.
I provide landscape design plans and installation or 1 hour landscape consultations for residential homeowners of the Piedmont Triad Area.
My passion also includes speaking on the topic of gardening and landscaping design. July of 2007 the National SHARE organization invited me to present a workshop to bereaved parents of pregnancy and infant loss on creating memory gardens, honoring their children.
Feel free to contact me to present a workshop to your church groups, gardens groups, homeowners association meetings, grief support meetings or other organizations interested in the healing properties of memory gardens or general landscape design for the Piedmont Triad area.
Contact-Diana (the symbol for at)justacloudaway.com
The goal of my designs are creating beautiful and functional outdoor living spaces or gardens by incorporating these elements
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The existing style of your home
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Complimenting existing topography
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How you & your family use leisure time
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Your personality
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My landscape design expertise
My affiliations are:
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Garden Commitee of Saint PiusX Church
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Member of BNI “Diamonds” chapter of Greensboro, NC
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CEO of www.justacloudaway.com
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Member of Southeast Community Business Association
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Member of Divine Weddings and Beyond™
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Member of Merchants of Oakridge
I spoke to you on the phone and you directed me to this website to find a two-page questionnaire. I cannot locate the questionnaire. Please email it to me. This project is something that needs to happen very soon.
Thank you,
Barbara Adams
Hi, Diana. Deborah Bryant suggested I forward you some information about a new website I’ve started: http://www.GardenABCs.com. It’s forum and share site for parents, educators and community interested in starting and maintaining learning gardens. Learning gardens can be based in schools, run by scout groups and clubs, be designed for seniors or disabled adults, you name it! They can be butterfly gardens, vegetable patches, native plant restoration projects, and more. Please check out the site. I’d be honored if you’d particpate in our Forum, which is just getting started. A parent from North Carolina had some questions that you may be able to address. I started the site after years spent volunteering at my children’s elementary school harvest garden and all the “bumping around in the dark” many of us go through in developing these programs. Why recreate the wheel, when there are so many wonderful projects and experts to learn from?
I used to live in Greensboro, and your blog transports me back to the wonderful time I spent there.
Sincerely, Anne Nagro
Hi Diane,
I’m from Fredonia, NY (45 minutes from your hometown of Buffalo, NY). First, I must say how impressed I am with your keen eye for landscaping design. I wish you still lived in Buffalo because I would hire you in a heart beat.
I do have a landscaping question which I hope you can answer. We have a traditional style home in gray siding with white trim. A very light gray brick is on part of the front of the home. The previous homeowner built a retaining wall with stacking block (the type you purchase at Home Depot). It looked good, but due to poor drainage, the wall began to fall. My husband didn’t like the look of the unnatural stone so he purchased $2,000 worth of slate rock online. He thought he was getting a light gray, however, we got more black than gray. He started to stack the wall, but I’m afraid it clashes too much with the light gray brick on the house. The wall is approximately 10-12 feet from the porch of the home. Knowing how much time he’ll need to devote to this project, I’m afraid he’s going to build something well just hate. I’d really like to get another person’s (preferably an expert like yourself) opinion before the wall is built. I’d be happy to send pictures if you would like.
Huh! The buffalo thing caught my eye, but even stranger I also grew up in Fredonia, but now live in Greensboro NC. Small world.
I grew up in the house in front of Forest Hills Cemetery…most beautiful cemetery I’ve ever seen. There is a plethora of great vegetation that you might want to check out there for ideas Denise.