Our Story

The Friendly Fern LLC is a family owned design business by husband and wife duo: Isaac and Emilie Navarro. Isaac, a horticulturalist and Emilie, an interior designer apply their years of research, experience and developed talents in designing functional landscapes that are drought tolerant, self-sustaining systems, that regenerate the local ecosystems, support the local wildlife; and still maintain a cohesive theme, styled to match the client’s home architecture and preferences.

At Friendly Fern LLC, we believe that God designed the world's forests perfectly and with many complex ways it achieves equilibrium. If disrupted an ecosystem will constantly attempt to regain balance over ages by way of the life cycles of shorter lived pioneer plants and local wild life interventions, to make way for more permanent members to appear. We believe that the conditions for the success of a garden is contingent on working with the natural structures and processes established by God and not against them. There are various key plants that act as elements and perform functions in their own respective layer of a forest that we model our gardens after.