Claire M. · Chapel Hill
Pollinator garden · Aug 2026
The HOA walked the bed twice and still could not find a rule we broke. Milkweed is in, it looks designed, and we had swallowtails in week three.
Elena Vasquez
Chapel Hill · 9 years
Pollinator beds that still look like a garden.
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Elena spent six years at a botanical garden before starting a solo practice. She designs for bloom succession and for HOA sightlines — the two things that usually fight. Most of her Triangle jobs are 200–600 square feet of converted lawn.
Consults include a one-page habitat score and a plant list keyed to this county.
Milkweed corridorsHOA-friendly meadowsMonarch host plants
Services
Pollinator gardens
1–2 days · Plant Sep–Nov and Mar–May
$850–$3,200
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Native conversions
2–5 days · Plant Sep–Nov in the Piedmont
$1,400–$6,500
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Habitat consults
90 minutes · Book 2–3 weeks out, year-round
$150–$300
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Reviews
Ben & Lori K. · Carrboro
Habitat consult · Jul 2026
Elena talked us out of a 2,000 sq ft meadow we would have killed. We did a 12-foot border instead. Correct call.