Habitual Designs
Habitual Designs is a Hudson Valley–based landscape design studio focused on creating outdoor environments that are enduring, ecologically grounded and deeply connected to place.
Working with private residences, estates and select public properties throughout the region, the studio approaches landscape as both structure and living system — shaping gardens that are designed with clarity, grounded in place and intended to mature beautifully over time.
In a region defined by its fields, forests, rivers and agricultural heritage, each project is shaped by the ecology and cultural character of the Hudson Valley itself. Planting design, spatial structure, implementation realities and long-term care are considered together, ensuring landscapes that are resilient, expressive and able to evolve beautifully across seasons and decades.
Lily Johnson
Habitual Designs was founded by Lily Johnson, a Hudson Valley–based landscape designer devoted to shaping landscapes that honor the ecology and character of the Hudson Valley.
Her approach has been shaped through hands-on horticultural practice — building and tending gardens, growing food, composting and cultivating a homestead that includes chickens, bees and perennial systems.
Her design philosophy focuses on restoring what has been depleted, working with what thrives naturally in the Hudson Valley, and shaping landscapes that remain resilient in the face of a changing climate.
