Plate I. Sarasota · Landscape Designer

A garden studio,
not a lawn crew.

Lee Alderman paints with plants — depth, dimension, color for every chosen space. Thirty years of design in Sarasota and Manatee.

Rating
5.0 ★ · 9 Google reviews, all five stars
Experience
30+ yrs Multi-generational Floridian
Architectural planting at dusk in a Sarasota garden — palms and native shrubs under a canopy of light.
Plate 01 · Native canopy, dappled light Sarasota, FL
A note from the studio

Landscape is the slowest architecture.

Silvermoon is a designer-led studio. We work like painters: a first wash of structure, a second pass of mass planting, the final note of accent that carries the eye through the garden in season. Plant selection is a long-term composition — the right species in the right place, doing the work for years.

Most of our clients are still calling a decade later. That's the only metric we care about.

— Lee AldermanDesigner · Founder · Sarasota native

The practice — eight disciplines, one studio.

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A composition of saw palmetto, firebush and ornamental grasses in layered green.
Plate 02 · Native mass plantingPlate
A stone path winding through a Florida shade garden with filtered light.
Plate 03 · Stone path in shadePlate
Garden lighting at dusk: a small tree uplit from below against a dark sky.
Plate 04 · Dusk lightingPlate
Linda Scheller · 5★ Sarasota, 2024
Like painting a painting, his designs have depth, dimension, and color for each chosen space.

A studio is not a service. It is a point of view.

Most landscape companies in Sarasota and Manatee were founded by transplants. Silvermoon is a multi-generational Floridian practice — the soil, the canopy, the rainy season, the dry, the salt, the heat index. That knowledge is the foundation of every planting plan we draft.

We are designer-led, not maintenance-led. Every project begins with a measured drawing, a plant palette, and a written scope. The build follows the design, not the other way around. Half of our new work each year comes from clients we've served for over a decade.

Begin a conversation.

A short call, an on-site walk, a measured drawing. No pressure, no upsell. The first visit is on us.