KATHERINE FIELD AND ASSOCIATES

Katherine Field and Associates is a landscape architecture and garden design practice based in Newport, Rhode Island, founded in 1981 by Kate Field after she worked in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the landscape architecture firm Carol R. Johnson. Field remains the firm's chief creative officer and principal, leading a team that designs high-end residential landscapes across southeastern New England, including projects the firm says extend into the greater Boston area. The firm's work has been featured repeatedly in New England Home Magazine and Cottages & Gardens over more than a decade, with editors describing specific design details: a herringbone bluestone surround built around a negative-edge pool, a bluestone path leading to an infinity-edge pool, and a courtyard garden and outdoor kitchen built around an existing home's architecture. In 2025, the firm won a Gold award in the Association of Professional Landscape Designers' International Landscape Design Awards Program for a project called "Orchard Bay" in Bristol, Rhode Island, and The Cultural Landscape Foundation featured Field leading a guided tour of a Newport waterfront estate the firm designed. The Better Business Bureau lists the firm with an A+ rating and 28 years in business, though it is not BBB-accredited. There is no customer-review record on file for this profile — the firm's reputation here rests on sustained editorial coverage, a professional design award, and its long operating history rather than homeowner ratings, which is common for landscape architecture practices that work through referrals and published portfolios rather than review platforms. Homeowners considering a high-end, design-led landscape project, rather than routine lawn care or maintenance, are the clearest fit here; anyone hiring should ask directly about current availability and fees, since the firm's own site notes it works as a design practice rather than a design-build contractor, pairing clients with separate construction crews.