new leaf landscape design

New Leaf Landscape Design is a one-designer practice: Cheryl L. Miller works from 17 Crosman Ave in Swampscott, designing custom residential landscapes and then overseeing the outside contractors who install them, so the crew on site is hired and managed by her rather than employed by the firm. Her stated specialty is historically informed landscapes for period homes, alongside contemporary and thematic gardens — a narrower, design-led offering than a mow-and-plow landscaping company. She describes herself as a landscape designer, garden historian and historic preservationist. The practice is unusual in its geography: it states it works both in the Greater Boston area and in Richmond and Central Virginia, so scheduling and site visits are worth confirming up front for a Massachusetts project. The public record is very thin. A single Google review, posted in May 2026, gives five stars and says New Leaf makes your garden look beautiful and new, recommending it a hundred percent — warm, but with no description of the actual project, so it cannot tell you much about scope, budget or how a build ran. For a homeowner, this is the profile of a design consultancy rather than a full-service contractor. Ask what the design fee covers and where it ends, who holds the contract with the installing crews and who carries their insurance, ask to see completed local gardens a few seasons on, and — since the installation work is subcontracted — confirm each installer's own Home Improvement Contractor registration and insurance directly with the state before work starts.