Georgia Landscape Architect
Licensed Landscape Architecture Firm Serving Georgia Statewide
Evergreen Design Group is a licensed Georgia landscape architect firm serving architects, civil engineers, land developers, and design-build contractors across the state. Since 2005, we have delivered land planning, landscape architecture, and irrigation design on commercial projects throughout Georgia — from master-planned communities in the Atlanta metro to mixed-use developments along the Georgia coast.
Our practice is exclusively B2B. We work as a coordinated subconsultant and project partner to development and design teams — not homeowners — and our deliverables are structured for permit submittal, technical review, and direct integration with your civil and architectural scope. We do not subcontract your landscape architecture, land planning, or irrigation design scope to third parties.
Our landscape architects hold active professional registrations in Georgia and carry the state-specific credentials required to stamp and seal landscape architectural documents for Georgia municipal and county permit submissions. Our practice meets the professional standards established by the American Society of Landscape Architects.
What Sets Our Georgia Landscape Architecture Practice Apart
Evergreen Design Group is a landscape architecture firm in Georgia operating at both a local and national scale. We hold active licensure in 43 states, including active Georgia registration, and our team brings direct project experience navigating the development review frameworks, tree ordinance requirements, stormwater management standards, and EPD irrigation compliance requirements that govern commercial projects across Georgia’s diverse development markets.
As a landscape architecture firm serving Georgia, we bring jurisdiction-specific knowledge of the regulatory requirements that vary meaningfully between Atlanta metro jurisdictions, Savannah and the coastal plain, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, and the state’s secondary development markets. Georgia’s six distinct ecological regions — the Blue Ridge Mountains, Ridge and Valley, Appalachian Plateau, Piedmont, Coastal Plains, and Atlantic Coast — each present unique site conditions, local ordinance requirements, and development pressures that our team navigates from direct project experience, not generic regional familiarity.
Our Georgia landscape architecture practice is exclusively B2B. Our clients are architects, civil engineers, land developers, and design-build contractors who need a Georgia landscape architect who understands entitlement timelines, delivers construction-ready documentation, and integrates cleanly into their project teams.
Landscape Architecture Services We Provide in Georgia
Evergreen Design Group is a single-source provider. Your project team works with one firm — not a patchwork of outside consultants — for all landscape architecture and related design disciplines.
We conduct thorough site analysis across Georgia’s distinct ecological regions — from the clay-heavy soils of the Piedmont to the high-water-table environments of the coastal plains — and produce site plans that address grading, drainage, open space programming, and regulatory compliance from the ground up. Our land planning services integrate directly with your civil engineer’s site layout, addressing open space configurations, buffer yard requirements, tree preservation zone integration, stormwater BMP siting, and streetscape frameworks that satisfy the applicable jurisdiction’s development review standards from the first submittal.
Whether you are entitling a large residential subdivision in Cherokee County or a mixed-use development near Midtown Atlanta, our land planning team understands Georgia’s jurisdictional landscape and coordinates regulatory constraints with your civil engineer from the initial site planning stage — which is where entitlement schedules are protected or lost.
We design for Georgia’s climate realities: hot, humid summers, variable rainfall, and significant regional biodiversity. Our planting designs emphasize native and regionally appropriate species that meet municipal landscape requirements and reduce long-term maintenance burden. We specify salt-tolerant coastal plantings for Golden Isles and coastal development projects with the same rigor we apply to Piedmont urban streetscape planting for Atlanta metro infill work.
Species selection accounts for Georgia’s regional soil conditions — Piedmont clay drainage challenges, coastal high-water-table environments, and the elevated humidity that affects plant establishment across the state. Tree canopy requirements, shade coverage standards, native plant compliance, and invasive species restrictions are incorporated into every Georgia planting plan as baseline parameters.
Georgia jurisdictions — particularly across the Atlanta metro, Savannah, and Augusta — have meaningful tree ordinance requirements that directly affect commercial development timelines. We work alongside your civil engineers to produce tree surveys, tree disposition plans, and tree replacement and mitigation strategies that satisfy local review boards and keep your project moving toward permit approval.
Tree ordinance requirements vary significantly by municipality across Georgia. We research and apply the specific standards of the project’s jurisdiction — not a generic statewide standard — and coordinate tree disposition documentation with your grading plan and permit package from the outset.
Pool decks, clubhouses, fitness courtyards, tot lots, dog parks, and community gathering spaces for residential and mixed-use developments across Georgia. Our design team produces amenity packages that are code-compliant and built for Georgia’s climate — including heat load planning for hardscape areas and material selection appropriate for Georgia’s humidity and UV conditions.
Plazas, pedestrian corridors, retaining walls, entry features, and site hardscape elements for commercial, mixed-use, and institutional projects throughout Georgia. We produce hardscape construction documents that coordinate directly with your civil and architectural drawings, minimizing RFIs in the field and supporting first-submission approval through Georgia’s municipal review processes.
Our irrigation design team produces fully engineered irrigation construction documents for commercial, multifamily, and community projects across Georgia. We design to current Georgia EPD standards and applicable local water management requirements, incorporating smart controllers, drip systems, and hydrozone-based layouts that reduce long-term operating costs and satisfy commercial permit review requirements.
Irrigation design in Georgia is performed in-house alongside our landscape architects throughout the design process — not added after the landscape plans are complete. Water budget calculations and irrigation efficiency specifications are established during design development so that the construction document package arrives at the applicable jurisdiction’s plan check in approvable form.
Understanding Georgia’s Landscape Architecture Environment
Georgia’s development regulatory environment is layered and ecologically diverse in ways that directly drive landscape architecture scope and deliverable requirements on commercial projects. Bringing a Georgia landscape architect onto your project team means bringing a firm that understands these conditions from direct project experience — not general familiarity.
Georgia’s Six Ecological Regions
Georgia spans six distinct ecological regions — the Blue Ridge Mountains, Ridge and Valley, Appalachian Plateau, Piedmont, Coastal Plains, and Atlantic Coast — each with its own soil profile, hydrology, native plant community, and development pressure characteristics. Site conditions, drainage behavior, and plant establishment requirements differ materially between a Cherokee County subdivision, a Chatham County mixed-use project, and an industrial facility in Dougherty County. Our planting and irrigation specifications are calibrated to the specific region and site, not applied from a single statewide template.
Piedmont Clay Soils and Coastal Hydrology
The Piedmont’s red clay soils present drainage and grading challenges that directly affect planting plan design, irrigation system layout, and stormwater BMP placement on commercial development sites. Coastal Georgia sites operate under a different set of constraints: high water tables, tidal influence on some sites, FEMA flood zone requirements, and wind and salt exposure that drive plant selection and hardscape material specifications toward species and products with demonstrated coastal performance. We approach each region’s site conditions with the specificity they require.
Georgia Tree Ordinance Landscape
Georgia’s tree ordinance requirements vary significantly by municipality — and the differences matter. Atlanta, Sandy Springs, Roswell, Alpharetta, Smyrna, and other Atlanta metro jurisdictions each maintain their own tree protection and replacement requirements, calculation methodologies, and review processes. Savannah and coastal jurisdictions carry their own distinct tree canopy requirements. Projects that enter development review without jurisdiction-specific tree documentation face revision cycles that compress already tight entitlement schedules. We research and apply the governing jurisdiction’s specific standards from the outset.
Georgia EPD Irrigation and Stormwater Standards
Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division (EPD) establishes irrigation efficiency standards and stormwater management requirements that apply to commercial and multifamily development projects statewide. EPD-compliant irrigation design requires water budget calculations, hydrozone documentation, smart controller specifications, and backflow prevention details formatted for commercial permit review. Our irrigation designs address EPD compliance as a baseline parameter on every Georgia project — not as a final checklist item.
Native and Invasive Species Compliance
Georgia municipalities and state agencies increasingly enforce native plant requirements and invasive species restrictions that affect commercial planting plan composition. Species such as Chinese privet, Bradford pear, English ivy, and kudzu are subject to removal and replacement requirements in a growing number of Georgia jurisdictions. We incorporate applicable native plant requirements and invasive species restrictions into every Georgia planting plan as baseline parameters, not post-approval modifications.
Georgia Markets We Serve
Evergreen Design Group provides landscape architecture and land planning services across the full state of Georgia, with active project experience in the following markets:
- Atlanta Metro — Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb, DeKalb, Cherokee, Forsyth, Henry, and Clayton counties
- Savannah & Coastal Georgia — Chatham, Bryan, Liberty, Glynn, and Camden counties
- Augusta & Central Georgia — Richmond, Columbia, McDuffie, and Burke counties
- Columbus & West Georgia — Muscogee, Harris, Troup, and Carroll counties
- Macon & Middle Georgia — Bibb, Houston, Monroe, and Peach counties
- Athens & Northeast Georgia — Clarke, Oconee, Jackson, and Madison counties
- Albany & Southwest Georgia — Dougherty, Lee, Colquitt, and Worth counties
- Brunswick & Golden Isles — Glynn, Brantley, and McIntosh counties
- North Georgia Mountains — Rabun, Towns, Union, Gilmer, and Pickens counties
Each of these regions presents distinct site conditions, local ordinance requirements, and development pressures. Our team brings direct project experience in these markets — not generic regional familiarity. When you bring Evergreen Design Group onto a Georgia project, you are not starting from zero. We bring existing knowledge of local code environments, municipal preferences, and regional site conditions that compress your pre-design phase and reduce the risk of costly revisions during permitting.
Project Types We Support in Georgia
Evergreen Design Group supports landscape architecture and land planning scope across a wide range of commercial development types in Georgia. All project work is B2B — performed for developers, civil engineers, architects, and design-build contractors. Our active project types include:
- Single-family residential subdivisions and master-planned communities
- Multifamily and build-to-rent communities
- Mixed-use and town center developments
- Retail centers, pad sites, and commercial outparcels
- Office and corporate campus projects
- Industrial parks and logistics facilities
- Senior living and continuing care communities
- Healthcare and medical campus environments
- Hospitality and resort-adjacent development
- Municipal parks and civic facilities
- Educational and university-adjacent development
Why Georgia Development Teams Choose Evergreen Design Group
Active Georgia Licensure — 21 Years of Commercial Project Experience.
Founded in 2005, Evergreen Design Group has completed landscape architecture projects across 43 states. Our Georgia track record spans multifamily housing, master-planned communities, commercial development, mixed-use projects, and civic space design. Our landscape architects hold active professional registrations in Georgia and carry the errors and omissions coverage and state-specific credentials required to stamp and seal landscape architectural documents for Georgia permit submissions.
Licensed Landscape Architecture Firm — In-House.
Every service we deliver — land planning, landscape architecture, and irrigation design — is performed in-house by our licensed professionals. That means consistent quality, clear accountability, and a single point of coordination for your civil and architectural team throughout the project.
Single-Source Delivery
Land planning, landscape architecture, and irrigation design are coordinated in-house and delivered under one contract. Your project team gets consistent communication, unified drawing sets, and a single point of accountability. This matters when schedules compress and permits are on the line.
Built for B2B Project Workflows
We understand how design and development projects are structured. We work to your schedule, your drawing standards, and your submittal process. We integrate into your project team and deliver — we do not require extensive client-side project management to keep our scope moving.
Responsive, Deadline-Driven
In development, schedules slip when consultants miss deadlines. Our clients return to us because we deliver on time, communicate proactively, and flag issues before they become problems. That is the standard we hold ourselves to on every Georgia project.
Frequently Asked Questions: Landscape Architecture in Georgia
What types of projects does Evergreen Design Group handle in Georgia?
We work on multifamily residential communities, single-family subdivisions, master-planned developments, commercial and mixed-use projects, corporate campuses, hospitality properties, and civic space design. We do not provide services for individual homeowners.
Does Evergreen Design Group have a Georgia landscape architect license?
Yes. Our landscape architects hold active professional registrations in Georgia and are fully credentialed to stamp and seal landscape architectural documents for Georgia permit submissions. Landscape architecture in Georgia is regulated by the Georgia Board of Landscape Architects under the Secretary of State’s Professional Licensing Boards Division.
What does land planning in Georgia involve for commercial development projects?
Land planning in Georgia involves developing site plans, open space configurations, buffer yard layouts, tree preservation zone integration, stormwater BMP siting, and streetscape frameworks that satisfy the applicable jurisdiction’s zoning and development review requirements. Because Georgia commercial development spans jurisdictions with meaningfully different standards — Atlanta metro municipalities, Savannah, Augusta, and secondary markets each maintain their own requirements — land planning in Georgia requires jurisdiction-specific knowledge of the development review process governing each specific site. Our land planning services are performed in-house and coordinated directly with your civil engineer from the initial site layout stage.
What does irrigation design in Georgia require?
Irrigation design in Georgia must comply with Georgia Environmental Protection Division standards and applicable local water management requirements. Required permit submittal deliverables typically include zoned system layout plans, smart controller specifications, flow and pressure calculations, backflow prevention documentation, water budget calculations, and hydrozone documentation. Our irrigation design team produces permit-ready packages that address EPD compliance as a baseline parameter on every commercial project.
Can you handle projects in both metro Atlanta and rural Georgia counties?
Yes. We regularly work across the full state — from urban infill projects in Fulton and DeKalb counties to large-scale rural subdivisions in South Georgia. We understand that the regulatory and site environments differ significantly between these markets and tailor our approach to the specific jurisdiction and site conditions of each project.
How does Evergreen Design Group coordinate with our civil engineer and architect?
We are accustomed to working within project teams led by architects or civil engineers. We coordinate our drawing packages directly with your drawings, attend design and owner’s meetings as needed, and respond to RFIs through your preferred project management platform. We integrate into your project team and do not require extensive hand-holding or client-side project management to keep our scope moving.
Can you provide irrigation design as a standalone service in Georgia?
Yes. Our irrigation design team can be engaged independently of our landscape architecture services. We provide full irrigation construction documents for commercial and multifamily projects across Georgia, including smart controller specifications and EPD-compliant design documentation.
Can you serve as a subconsultant to a civil engineering or architecture firm on a Georgia project?
Yes — that is one of our most common engagement structures across the state. We integrate into your project team and deliver the full landscape architecture scope as a subconsultant, coordinating directly with your project manager and other disciplines throughout the design and entitlement process.
When should landscape architects in Georgia be engaged on a commercial development project?
As early as possible — ideally at the site planning stage, before the civil plan set is substantially developed. Early engagement allows tree preservation zone requirements, buffer yard layouts, stormwater BMP siting, and municipal landscape ordinance compliance to be integrated into the site layout before those decisions are locked in. Projects that bring a Georgia landscape architect in early consistently produce cleaner submittals and fewer revision cycles through the state’s development review processes.
Do you work with homeowners or individual residential clients in Georgia?
No. Our practice is exclusively B2B. We serve land developers, civil engineers, architects, and design-build contractors. We do not take on individual homeowner projects.
Scope Your Georgia Project with Our Team
If you have a commercial or multifamily project anywhere in Georgia and need a licensed landscape architect — for land planning, planting plans, irrigation design, tree disposition plans, hardscape, or full-scope landscape architecture — contact Evergreen Design Group. We’ll review your project details and provide a clear proposal. Most projects receive a response within three business days.
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