RYAN + JESSICA
Owners. Dig It Gardens & Dig It Design
Mesa. Naperville. Art. Family. Love. Road Trips. Poetry. Viola. Soccer. Music. Dedication. Graffiti. Tip Top. Tattoos. Support. Chicago. Columbia College. Phoenix. First Sight. PHX H&G. Distance. GSD. Arid. Urban Cactus. DID. Lynwood. Marriage. Home. Tempe. Johnny Copper. Maxwell Ryan. Parents. Mini Boss. Community. Now.
ALEX
Plant Boss. Dig It Gardens
The interaction of plants and art; representing information, passion, interaction. Relaying information. Unconventionality. Adaptation. First plant? Bismarckia nobilis; slow-growing habit leaving anticipation. Soil; the foundation of life. More oxygen, less water. Greatest achievement: being a role model to my kids, watching them change the world. Family; the driving force of my passion. Becoming a respected representative of plants; providing unique information about their care. Mesa Community College’s Landscape Horticulture program.
BETH
Lead Landscape Architect
Canoeing the ruddy frigid waters of Saranac Lake. Ancient mountains dulled to hillsides. Rocky Mountains. Laying in the sweet grass of high mountain moraine. alpine air, thin and citrusy. Moving West. Crisscrossing the Continental Divide. Saguaro forests. Creosote, petrichor and growing roots. Desert trails with Nic, back heavy with pack. Dust in the creases around my eyes. The Old Pueblo. Landscape Architecture. Gardens and front porches with friends. Telling the story of water, the blue green color of an agave, the ruggedness of the Sonoran Desert. Hummingbird host. Ancho Mama.
EMA
Landscape Designer
Brooklyn Born. Michigan (lower thumb area on the mitten) 2 years old. Running down hills really fast. Perfecting somersaults and cartwheels, looking for worms, drawing, and reading Harry Potter. AZ. Books. Studied civil engineering and urban planning instead (Be like Gandhi, Earth Doctor). Music. Leon Bridges, Gary Clark Jr., Volcano. I am moved by the works of Hermann Hesse, Zaria Forman and Kate Orff. Creosote bush (larrea tridentat) reminds me of home. Travel. France, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, England, Scotland, India, Iceland, Albania.
MARISSA
Landscape Designer
Raised in the Sonoran desert, stuck around for the saguaros. Connecting humans to nature. BSLA 2021. Pay your dues. spread your wings. Hardworking. Creative. Vinyl records and Sunday gravy, also, bare feet on the sand. Bird watching and dog petting. Inspired by traveling, ecology, human kindness, and sustainability. Designing with respect.