Whirlwind Fine Garden Design

Whirlwind Fine Garden Design is a full-service Design, Build and Maintenance Landscape Contractor based in Amherst, Massachusetts. With a rich history that spans over two decades, our company has built a reputation for creating colorful and inviting landscapes that feature low maintenance plantings, artistic stonework, and enduring designs. Our team's expert knowledge and personal involvement in every project guarantee design integrity, while ensuring attention to the finest details.

Guiding Principles

At Whirlwind Fine Garden Design, we believe in creating landscapes that reflect our clients' unique personalities and needs. Our guiding principles include:

• Unity: The consideration of the house and garden as a whole.
• Function: The relationship of the practical service areas to the needs of the household.
• Simplicity: Upon which rests the economic and aesthetic success of the design.
• Scale: The pleasant relationship of the garden elements to the human dimension.
• Ecology: Enhancing the surrounding environment for the benefit of people and all living things.

These principles guide our work, ensuring that every design is cohesive, functional, and beautiful.

Services Offered

At Whirlwind Fine Garden Design, we offer a comprehensive range of services that cater to all your landscaping needs. Our services include:

Design Services

Our design services are tailored to meet your specific needs and preferences. We offer:

• Free initial consultation
• Master plans
• Conceptual drawings
• Coordination with architects, builders, engineers, and surveyors

Our expert design team will work closely with you to create a landscape design that reflects your style and enhances your outdoor living space.

Construction Services

Our construction services are designed to bring your landscape design to life. We specialize in:

• Stone walls
• Patios
• Walkways
• Steps
• Fire pits
• Outdoor kitchens
• Water features
• Fences
• Pergolas
• Raised beds
• Plantings
• Lawns

Our skilled craftsmen use the highest quality materials to create landscape features that are both functional and aesthetically pleasing.

Maintenance Services

At Whirlwind Fine Garden Design, we understand the importance of maintaining your landscape to ensure its longevity and beauty. Our maintenance services include:

• Lawn mowing and string trimming
• Lawn dethatching and aeration
• Fertilization
• Weeding
• Pruning
• Mulching
• Spring and fall clean-ups

Our team of experienced landscapers will work diligently to maintain your landscape, ensuring that it always looks its best.

Chris, Co-Owner

With over thirty-five years of experience designing and building landscapes, Chris brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to every project. He has a BS in Plant Science from the University of New Hampshire and a Master of Landscape Architecture from UMass, Amherst. As the co-owner of Whirlwind Fine Garden Design, Chris is personally involved in every project, ensuring that every detail is thoughtfully arranged.

Suzanne, Co-Owner

With an extensive background in customer service, Suzanne brings professionalism, courtesy, and efficiency to every project. Her business knowledge and years of experience ensure that every project runs smoothly from start to finish.

Testimonials

"Whirlwind's stonework and landscape contracting services are, from my point of view, the best in the Pioneer Valley, hands down. I have brought Chris and his crew in to work on most of my residential design projects for the last 25 years. Their technical expertise, ability to get the job done right, flexibility, openness to new ideas, talent for solving problems, and willingness to communicate clearly with both myself and my clients are rare in the world of landscape construction. I recommend Whirlwind without reservation." - Sue Reed, Landscape Architect

"We have contracted with Whirlwind many times for various landscaping projects over the past 20 years. Every time we have been very satisfied with the outcome and the final design. The owners and crew are courteous, polite, and able to work with our various problems and concerns to provide a most professional outcome. They are great communicators and kept us in the loop with schedules and other things that have 'popped up'. We highly recommend their company with a five plus rating!" - Jim J.

"Whirlwind Fine Garden Design worked for us at both our business and our home. It was a pleasure to work with Christopher and his wife, Suzanne. Whirlwind's stonework is superb and beautiful. Christopher's knowledge of plants, trees, and all horticulture ensures that your garden will be lovely and original. We continue to hire Whirlwind for different projects, and will continue with them for all future garden work. We highly recommend Whirlwind!" - Mary H.

"Whirlwind did general landscaping, brick patio, stone planters and a raised stone wall-surrounded basketball court. Beautiful design, wonderful small details, hard working, still some of the best money we've spent on our home and it was quite some time ago. Wholeheartedly recommend them!" - Jodi C.