A boutique landscape architecture studio designing estates, gardens, and outdoor environments for homeowners who think in seasons, not square feet.
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Six recent projects from our active portfolio. Every site visited, designed, and overseen by a senior partner.
A three-acre estate in Caledon required transformation from manicured lawn to native woodland garden. We removed twelve thousand square feet of turf, planted seven hundred native trees and shrubs over four seasons, and centered the composition on a single black-bottomed reflecting pool that catches the afternoon light through the cedars. The result is a garden that looks like it has always been there — which is the point.
From master planning to maintenance — we work in whatever discipline the project requires, but always with the same restraint and reverence for site.
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Full estate landscape design. We start with the land itself and design outward — circulation, sightlines, seasonal succession, fifty-year tree growth.
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Single garden room or full grounds. Native perennial palettes, four-season interest, plantings designed to mature rather than be replaced.
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Custom stone work, paths, walls, terraces. We work in local fieldstone, limestone, and bluestone — no concrete pavers, no manufactured product.
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Reflecting pools, naturalistic ponds, formal fountains, swimming pools designed as landscape elements rather than backyard accessories.
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Year-round seasonal care for our installed gardens — pruning, division, replanting, and the patient attention that good gardens require.
Every studio has its palette. These eight species form the backbone of nearly every Ontario design we put in the ground.
Cercis canadensis
Specimen Tree · Spring
Andropogon gerardii
Native Grass · Year-Round
Aesculus parviflora
Specimen Shrub · Summer
Acer saccharum
Canopy Tree · Autumn
Cornus alternifolia
Understory · Spring
Panicum virgatum
Native Grass · Year-Round
Hamamelis virginiana
Specimen · Late Winter
Tsuga canadensis
Evergreen · All Season
A garden is not a construction project — it's a relationship with the land that unfolds across seasons. We don't rush. We don't substitute. And we don't leave when the install ends.
Founded by landscape architect Eleanor Stillwater in a converted barn in the Caledon Hills, Stillwater & Vine has remained intentionally small for twenty-two years. Twelve designers and craftsmen. Forty active projects at any time. We turn down more work than we accept — and we always have.
"Good gardens are made slowly, by people who care more about being right than being fast."
Founding Partner
RLA · 22 years
Senior Partner · Hardscape
RLA · 19 years
Lead Designer · Native Plantings
MLA · 11 years
Master Stoneworker
28 years on the ground
Plant profiles, soil notes, seasonal task lists, and design philosophy — written by our designers when they're not in the field.
Eleanor walks three of our oldest installed gardens forty years on, and shares what twelve months of design intent looks like at maturity. The trees we planted small are now the gardens' bones — but what we got wrong is more useful than what we got right.
November 18, 2025 · 12 min read
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We take on roughly twelve new projects per year. Inquiries are reviewed weekly by Eleanor or Henry — no junior associates, no sales reps.
"We don't email quotes. We walk land."
Our team is based in Toronto and the Caledon Hills, but our project radius extends across Southern Ontario — from Niagara wine country to Muskoka cottage country and Prince Edward County.
The Old Mill Barn · 4 Concession Road
Caledon, ON L7K 1L3
Distillery District
110 Mill Street, Studio 4
Toronto, ON M5A 4Y4