We aim to walk with you on a journey that brings joy and beauty through nature.
Our Story
Beauty Through Nature Landscape Design came to fruition in the fall of 2022. Laura Hollands, founder and principal Landscape Architectural Technologist, wanted to create a space where potential clients could experience a relationship of walking together on a journey, bringing joy through nature to her clients. Her main focus for her clients is on listening, honesty and integrity. In addition, she wanted to provide her clients with the experience of working with Mother Earth, who has lent her canvas to the people who reside on Turtle Island, also known as North America.
Laura Hollands, LAT
Laura Hollands is Beauty Through Nature Landscape Design's founder and principal Landscape Architectural Technologist. She grew up on a farm just east of Sherwood Park, where she learned the value of hard work from her parents and grandparents. At the time, she thought her folks were extremely lucky to have built-in labour; now that she reflects, working hard has served her well.
Laura graduated with honours from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology’s (NAIT's) Landscape Architectural Technology program in the year 2000. After working eight years in pretty much every facet of the industry, she put drafting up beautiful landscapes on the back burner and became a mom. Being a mom has been one of the greatest gifts of her life so far; however, as her kids have grown, she realized it was time for her creative brain to restart.
Sixteen years later, she finds herself in midlife, opening her landscape design studio. Some people may call this crazy; she calls it creative freedom! Laura is extremely grateful for the funding of Apeetogosan (Metis) Development Inc. She looks forward to working hard with the funding she has been gifted to make her business dreams come true.
“Laura has been invaluable in helping us plan 3 yards. We keep coming back to her because she is so easy to work with, has beautiful and creative ideas and was able to help us configure our spaces within our budget. When our landscape quote was too high on our last project, she was able to pivot and build an equally beautiful plan that was less expensive to implement, and we are thrilled with the end result! We will be using her on our future projects.”
— Justina Gibson