Our team

Laurel Babcock

Laurel started gardening with her mother at a very young age. After starting Laurel’s Garden Design in 2019, she gained an interest in landscaping with native plants and started encouraging biodiversity in her client’s gardens.

In 2015 she graduated from a prestigious Gardener Volunteer Program in Durham County and remains an active member to this day. She is Certified in both Rain Garden Installation and Streambank Repair though the NC Cooperative Extension and NC State University. Her home garden and nursery are certified by the NC Native Plant Society and the NC Wildlife Federation and is listed on the map at Homegrown National Park.

Heather Bixler

Heather has been gardening for over 17 years. She is passionate about regenerative gardening practices and wildlife-friendly landscape design. Heather loves growing vegetables and manages her own 5,000 square foot market garden in her backyard. She loves composting, cut flowers, rain gardens, meadow-scapes and pollinator-friendly plants. In 2023, she graduated from a prestigious Gardener Volunteer Program in Durham County.