Carolyn Thayer, landscape designer and owner of Designs in Bloom, will help guide your residential or commercial landscape project from conception to installation.  Each design that is created is unique and tailored especially for your site and your needs.  Carolyn specializes in master landscape designs in northwest Michigan that can be installed in phases or all at once.

Carolyn's design work includes site layout of driveways, walkways, patios, and decks; landscape designs using natural or formal design styles; shoreline buffer strips; rain gardens; and water features.  She is also very passionate about, and specializes in the use of, Michigan native plants.  Designs in Bloom will help you extend your living space to the outdoors.

Carolyn has been designing landscapes professionally since 1988.  She earned a bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture from Michigan State University in 1990 and became a Michigan Certified Nurseryman through the Michigan Nursery and Landscape Association in 1992.  In 2011 she completed the Michigan Natural Shoreline Professional Training and Certification Program.  Carolyn also is a founding member of Plant It Wild, a member-based native plant group in northwest Michigan.

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight
upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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