Hyejin Yoo
Founder and principal designer
Draws every plan and walks each site with the client before the first dig.
About Fernwood
A design office that builds its own work
Fernwood began as a one-person design practice and grew a construction crew so that the plan and the garden would match. Today about twenty-five people work here: designers, a horticulturist, masons, carpenters and planting crews.
Every project has one site lead from the first dig to the final walk. The plan stays on site, and any change is drawn and agreed before it is built.
On every site
One site lead from first dig to final walk
Utilities marked through Miss Utility (811) before any digging
Daily cleanup, and a written note at the end of each stage
The team
Who leads the work
Each of them is on site, not only in the office.
Kieran Calhoun
Construction director
Runs the stone and carpentry crews and sets the order of work on every site.
Toshio Kaneshiro
Head horticulturist
Chooses and sources the plants, and checks every planting after its first season.
Walk the site with us
We visit, measure and agree what to draw first.