Naturalistic planting design that brings together beauty, biodiversity, seasonality, and long-term performance.
Rewild Landscape is a planting design studio in New York City and the Hamptons, led by founder Marie Salembier, who studied horticulture at The New York Botanical Garden's School of Professional Horticulture. Planting is at the heart of the studio's work. Each scheme responds to soil, light, climate, and ecological opportunity while delivering a strong visual and seasonal experience. The studio's planting plans balance native and adapted species, structure and movement, and bloom and evergreen presence, so gardens read as resolved through all four seasons. In New York City that means planting for roofs, terraces, courtyards, and public spaces, from the seasonal installations in the Channel Gardens at Rockefeller Center to the Sky Garden and Sunken Garden at 144 Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn. In the Hamptons it means planting for coastal conditions across East Hampton, Sagaponack, Bridgehampton, and Southampton. Every planting plan serves both the look of the project and the long-term health of the site, and the studio can stay involved after installation to guide how the planting matures.
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Planting design is the discipline of selecting, composing, and arranging plant species to achieve specific spatial, ecological, and aesthetic goals. Rewild Landscape's planting design work combines horticultural precision with ecological intelligence, creating plant communities that function as habitat, support soil biology, and deliver refined year-round composition rather than static ornamental displays.
Rewild Landscape prioritizes native and regionally appropriate species because they support local biodiversity, require fewer inputs, and belong to established ecological communities. The studio also incorporates non-invasive naturalized species and select cultivars when they advance the design intent, always evaluating each plant for ecological function alongside beauty and performance.
Planting plans at Rewild Landscape are developed by founder Marie Salembier, a French-trained landscape architect and horticulturist, with input from the studio's horticultural team. Every plant palette is composed around the site's soil, hydrology, microclimate, and native plant communities, then refined through construction documentation and installation oversight.
