Nathan Wright Landscape Design

Live unapologetically, even in your planters. Always a good time when STUDIO SVEN adds us to the lineup.

We’re growing the team.

Looking for someone who knows maintenance inside and out—the scheduling, the crews, the client relationships, all of it. Someone who wants to own it and build something with us.

If you love this work and you’re ready for real ownership—or you know someone who is—we want to hear from you.

If there is one thing that’s certain, it’s that we love bulbs over here at NWLD. Trialing some fresh yellow varieties at - stay tuned!

Our resident rabbit at reimagined Easter grass this year with Sesleria autumnalis; a fresh, contemporary choice we love. Tiny troublemaker, impeccable style!

We love receiving updates from our clients. Aconite emerging is a reliable indicator of soil temperatures rising and the first phase of seasonal transition!

We took a defunct landscape yard in Logan Square and transformed it into a connected campus of garden rooms—redefining how a working yard can also support community gathering.

Big thanks to and our entire team for the ingenuity, hustle, grit, and extra love it took to reimagine our space for the people of Chicago.

Tonight we won a Gold Award for Commercial Landscape Construction at the 2026 Excellence in Landscape Awards hosted by Landscape Illinois.

Two of our favorite Chicago artists and good friends and contributed their incredible work to the space. And and .lighting.perspectives brought the extra magic through sound and landscape lighting.

is a really special place, we hope you visit us soon.

A small winter garden entry, where terrazzo meets the texture of birch bark.

Winter structure, not winter clutter.

Calamagrostis x acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’ earns its keep long after the growing season ends. Upright blades, clean lines, and seed heads that catch low light and frost keep the landscape legible and intentional through winter. It’s architecture first, planting second, holding form instead of collapsing when the season turns.

Design note: cut back late winter, not fall. You keep the structure, protect the crown, and start spring with a cleaner reset.

We’re bringing in rich red tones to warm up the winter landscape.