Welcome!

I'm Tom Stille, President of Interpretive Gardens. Welcome to our garden spot on the World-Wide Web! Please kick off your shoes and lean back a bit in that chair, and let's talk about making our spot on this earth more beautiful while remaining true to the landscape that Nature has given us. 

Our mission at Interpretive Gardens is to create appropriate opportunities to experience this unique place through bio-regional development: by building, designing and maintaining landscapes that are resource-efficient, beautiful, functional and fun! 

While that's poetry to us, we do it with science. We're professional horticulturists and landscape architects, and as we plan each project, we keep in mind how plants interact with one another, how our climate affects plants, the soils that Nature has provided us, and of course what will be blooming when, so that your garden can be a year-round source of delight. 

Developing Sustainable Landscapes

If your garden could use some changes or you are moving to a new home with no landscape, allow us to help create a resource efficient garden. It all starts with a master concept plan. With drafting equipment in hand, I visit your space and develop a plan working with you on site (your kitchen table)! A few sustainable ideas include adding fruit and windbreak trees or a vegetable garden; neat decks and patios to keep some of your recreation activities at home; reducing dependence on lawn to lower water, fertilizer, mowing and edging costs; planting native and high-desert adapted plants to further reduce maintenance costs and utilizing state of the art irrigation, mulching and soil preparation methods. The bottom line is a functional and beautiful garden with less input. 

The next step can be for our construction division to negotiate a price to fit your budget and build the garden. Call or email soon. Together we can make a difference. 

Interpretive Gardens, Inc.
We are dedicated to using nature and the collaborative process in the design of environments for play, physical rehabilitation & spiritual restoration.

Interpretive Gardens is the parent company of Pinyon Design, specializing in landscape architecture design services

Call or e-mail Tom Stille at (775)747-2222 for details.

Sustainability Education

The River School @ Mayberry Bend is a division of Interpretive Gardens that we have developed to create sustainability initiatives and build community. Please visit our website to learn more.

Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger. 75% are children. You can help.

The Hunger Site (www.thehungersite.com) is the world's first "click-to-donate" site. Donations of staple food, paid for by The Hunger Site's sponsors, are distributed to the world's hunger hot-spots by the United Nations World Food Program.