About Michael

Michael Reynolds is Chief Garden Designer and Engineer. Without his ability to visualize and plan pathways, plantings, borders and other aspects of the physical Animals’ Peace Garden, there would be very little admire. Nor can his dedicated and hard labor be overlooked: the actual digging, pruning, transplanting and planting itself of shrubs, small trees, and perennials.

One of his finest achievements is the curved garden, a series of raised and stepped beds which he designed with curved wood for borders, all surrounding a white stone pathway. Just above the curved garden is the Dogs’ Garden, fenced in as the resident dogs’ play and outside lounging area. Here, a raised border holds Carolina Jasmine, Flowering Yucca, white Iris, and multiple containers of pansies, petunias and other annuals.

Michael brings to the gardens a wonderful sense of order and discipline both in his design and ongoing care of the beds, paths, and plants, trees and shrubs. Despite the occasional nighttime visit by opossums, raccoons, one smallish black bear and whitetail deer, the garden flourishes and becomes more beautiful and full with each planting season.