A first plan,
drawn by hand.
Our signature offering, The Drop, is a ninety-minute on-site consultation with a licensed landscape architect — followed by a hand-drawn sketch and a curated plant palette for your home. From a practice shaped by work for the Aga Khan in Edmonton, Memorial Park in Houston, and Kings Cross in London. By appointment, for Westchester.
The Drop: one visit, one sketch, one garden plan.
Ninety minutes on the property with a licensed landscape architect. A hand-drawn sketch, a curated plant palette, and a private webpage that holds them.
Ninety minutes on your property. We walk the land and talk through what you want.
A hand-drawn plan of what your space could become. Considered, balanced, drawn for your house.
A curated list of plants suited to your light, soil, and site conditions. Quantities, bloom timing, and referrals to where to find them.
A private webpage: the sketch, the palette, photographs, and guidance on what to plant and when. Yours to return to.
“A good garden begins with one decision made well. The rest follows from there — slowly, over seasons, in the way the best things do.”
Selected work, from a longer career.
Transforming a hodgepodge of beds, rethought as a single garden. The front of the house was organized and simplified — a calm, native composition, with each plant placed where it belonged.
Home on Doris Drive
Crepe myrtle, limelight hydrangeas, sedum, and a white pebble bed at the front of the house.
Sandra Nam Cioffi began in fragrance, trained in landscape, and is home again.
Sandra graduated from the University of Chicago and earned her Master of Landscape Architecture from Virginia Tech.
A first career in fragrance — at Givaudan and Beauté Prestige International, the perfumery house behind Jean Paul Gaultier and Issey Miyake.
A second career as a licensed landscape architect at Nelson Byrd Woltz and Margie Ruddick Landscape, where she was Lead Designer on the Garden of Light at the Aga Khan Centre in Kings Cross, served on the team for the Aga Khan Garden in Edmonton, and was the Project Manager on the Eastern Glades at Memorial Park in Houston.
Ink, founded in 2020, is the third. A licensed practice serving the homes of Westchester, by appointment.
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We do not produce construction drawings, manage permits, or supervise installation. We do not bid on jobs against contractors. We do not sell maintenance.
We deliver the first move — the vision, the plan, the plant list, the page. From there you take it forward, with your gardener, or with anyone you choose.
On the visit
Ninety minutes on the property. The sketch, the plant palette, and the dream page follow within ten business days.
On execution
We can recommend trusted gardeners, installers, and nurseries in Westchester. The execution relationship stays yours — it keeps you in control and our advice honest.
On scope
A traditional landscape engagement spans months and tens of thousands of dollars before a shovel moves. The Drop is the considered vision — the part that matters most — in two weeks.
On geography
Bronxville, Edgemont, Larchmont, Rye, Hartsdale, and the surrounding villages. A modest travel fee applies beyond a fifteen-minute radius.
On the page
Twelve months included. An annual seasonal refresh keeps it living — updated for spring planting, fall edits, and any changes you make along the way.
Begin the conversation.
Send a note with your address and a few words about your yard. A response within one business day.
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