Professional Affiliations
Unlike most landscape architects, many landscape contractors and landscape designers, even some landscape nurserymen and women, I know plants extremely well. I am an active and avid gardener and have a wide ranging knowledge and interest in virtually all types of hardy and semi tropical plants: from trees and shrubs, to sun loving perennials, to woodland perennials and wildflowers, to ornamental grasses, ferns and rock garden plants, native and non native. My horticultural and gardening purview extends to and encompasses a significant amount of ongoing plant research and, for lack of a better term, experimental gardening— trialing new and out of the ordinary plants for hardiness, adaptability and ornamental appeal, including new and interesting plant combinations well before they are utilized (if ever) in your masterplan and garden.
My garden is located on three and one half acres in Chatham County. I am developing, for all intents and purposes, a private botanical garden that includes a thousand square foot greenhouse. My botanical plant collection is near world class…..All of this is buttressed by a longstanding interest in ecology, meteorology, soil science and the environment.
The result?
When you hire Mike Lehmann and the Lehmann Design Group, all of this horticultural, environmental, meteorological knowledge and gardening experience is put to work for you.
This is not to say your landscape or garden needs to be a park or botanical garden. It does mean the Lehmann Design Group has the knowledge, experience and good judgment to put together a planting plan for your place that’s beautiful, appropriate, cost effective, distinctive and environmentally sound.
I’ve been a member of just about everything over the years. Current and former memberships include:
Alpine Garden Society
American Bamboo Society
American Boxwood Society
American Camellia Society
American Conifer Society
American Hosta Society
American Hydrangea Society
American Iris Society
American Peony Society
American Rhododendron Society
American Society of Landscape Architects
Audubon Society
Bat Conservation International
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Building Industry Association
Center for Plant Conservation
Daphne Society
Friends of the Arnold Arboretum
Friends of Duke Gardens
Friends of the J.C. Raulston Arboretum
Friends of the Paul J. Ciener Botanical Garden
Friends of the U.S. National Arboretum
Friends of the UNC Botanical Gardens
Gardeners of Wake County
Hardy Fern Society
Holly Society of America
International Oak Society
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Landscape Plant Development Center
New England Wild Flower Society
North Carolina Native Plant Society
Perennial Plant Association
Piedmont Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society
Quarryhill Botanical Garden
Royal Horticultural Society
Sino-Himalayan Plant Association
Species Iris Group of North America
The International Magnolia Society
The Maple Society
The Nature Conservancy
The North American Rock Garden Society
The Rhododendron Species Foundation
The Scottish Rock Garden Club
Triangle Land Conservancy
World Wildlife Fund
Give Mike a call and let’s set up a time to chat.
