Right Plant,
Right Place
Parker Meadows was started with the mission of landscaping in NYC utilizing green initiatives to lower our impact on local ecosystems and landfills. Our sustainable practices include sourcing from reputable local nurseries, providing in-house composting services, implementing organic practices, and using mostly manual tools to reduce gas and noise pollution.
Wherever possible we design with native plants to help encourage biodiversity. This helps attract important pollinators and other beneficial fauna to our area. We stay small scale in order to keep actions intentional and tasks delivered with care.
Our People
Whitney is the founder, head designer, and lead horticulturist at Parker Meadows. She has been working in horticulture since 2010, from a local flower farm, to Brooklyn Bridge Park, to Brooklyn Botanical Garden, where she taught in the children's education department while getting her Certificate of Horticulture. Moving into the private sector, she brought her love of wild landscapes and ecology to residential garden design and maintenance, officially opening Parker Meadows in 2018. Powered by a love for biodiversity and community, she strives to connect humans with nature while balancing our impact on the environment.
WHITNEY PARKERTON
Rachel has been an assistant garden designer, photographer, and horticulturist since the creation of Parker Meadows in 2018. Certified in Horticulture and Sustainable Garden Design from NYBG, her calling has been designing and planting magical sanctuaries for our many clients in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
RACHEL ERICKSON
LORI-MAY ORILLO
Lori-May has been a gardener with Parker Meadows since the spring of 2023. Her experience extends from growing up gardening, through years tending to her own gardens, to working within community gardens and urban farms of Chicago, Illinois. She believes human connection with nature is vital, and besides getting her hands dirty, is interested in research in soil health, environmental ecology, as well as the representation of plants in the history of art -- she is also a poet and painter with a BFA from the School of The Art Institute in Chicago. She is currently working to be certified as a Horticulturist.
