The gardener at the other end of the phone.

01Free child labor, as it turned out.

Katherine grew up in a household where the garden was a family project — and the labor force was small. Her parents put her to work in the beds early: plantings, weeding, hauling, watering. The pay was room and board.

What was meant as chores turned into something else. She liked the rhythm of it. She liked watching a bed she'd helped plant in March come into its own by May. By the time she was old enough to opt out, she was the one volunteering.

"I was free child labor, more or less. I just happened to fall in love with it." — Katherine

Her first paying job — appropriately — was as a florist. She is a graduate of the Texas Master Gardener program, with the formal credentials to back the instinct.

02The path here.

Katherine has spent the last fifteen-plus years running the operational side of landscape companies in Houston — starting as a maintenance supervisor in 2009 and working up to branch and division leadership at some of the largest names in the local industry.

Along the way she has been Maintenance Division Manager and Assistant General Manager at LMS, an Account Manager at the company now known as BrightView, Branch Manager at Davey Tree's commercial landscape division, and Director of Garden Management at Grow and Company. She currently serves as Branch Manager at Monarch Landscape Management.

Green City Gardens is the residential practice she runs alongside that career — a deliberately small operation for homeowners who want the rigor of a real landscape company without being routed through a crew dispatcher.

03Credentials.

• Certified Pesticide Applicator — Lawns / Trees / Ornamentals

  Texas Department of Agriculture · Sep 2020

• Certified Landscape Professional

  Texas Nursery & Landscape Association · Jun 2010 · #662

• Licensed Landscape Irrigator

  Texas Commission on Environmental Quality · Jan 2011 · #18930

• Texas Master Gardener

  Texas A&M AgriLife Extension

04How she works.

Katherine runs every project herself — site visit, proposal, scheduling, the work itself, and the punch list at the end. As Green City Gardens grows, more of the hands-on work will pass to trusted team members, but the standard doesn't change: Katherine sees the site, signs off on the plan, and is accountable for what happens in your garden.

What that means for you: one phone number, one inbox, one person who knows the history of your beds. No estimator handoffs. No "I'll have to ask the crew." If something changes mid-project, she'll tell you before the invoice does.

05What she brings.