Bedworks Design, Inc.

Bedworks Design is a Chatham studio built around one thing: a homeowner walks a wooded or oceanfront Cape Cod lot with an idea, and the crew works out how a garden actually wants to grow there. Owner Shayne Watson-Sibley started the company in 2002 after studying coastal zone management and landscape design, and her husband John later joined as business partner, per the company's own account of its history. The Google reviews with the most detail are full-project accounts. In a 2025 review, one family described gutting a yard full of resurfacing glass shards left by a previous landscaper and having Bedworks redesign the whole backyard from scratch. In a 2024 review, another homeowner in the middle of renovating an antique Chatham house said Bedworks took over after an earlier company left the project unfinished — Shayne came out personally, reworked the design, and finish-pruned the beds herself. A third review, also from 2024, described Bedworks designing and installing a full cottage garden in Harwich after the client met the team through their Chatham work. Several reviewers describe longer, multi-year maintenance relationships, with 2025 reviews specifically praising Shayne's plant choices for a property's own microclimate — Dahlias, hydrangeas, and roses came up by name — and her attentiveness to plantings that were struggling. The company's own site lists rose gardens as a specific focus alongside horticultural care, ecological land management, and container plantings, and a 2025 review credited the team with helping navigate a conservation-committee review tied to invasive-species mitigation on one property. Not every account is glowing. In a 2023 review, a prospective client described a site visit that produced no concrete design or ideas — she said she was asked instead to describe her own vision and send reference photos — followed, she said, by no further response. That is worth asking about directly: what the design process looks like and how quickly a proposal follows the first visit. Bedworks fits someone who wants a real design process behind their garden — a renovation-scale rebuild, a rose garden, or a multi-year relationship where the crew gets to know a property over time — more than someone shopping for a quick maintenance crew. Anyone lining up a first design consultation should confirm the process and timeline before committing, given the one account of a stalled start.