About
Learn about Lavender's founder, origin story and evolution.
OUR MISSION
THE GOAL is very simple. We're here to help you FALL IN LOVE with your OWN BACKYARD
Lavender Landscape Design Co. began in 2019 in my spare bedroom, built on one belief: life is better lived outdoors. What started as a passion for design and outdoor living caught fire — and in just a few years, we grew into one of the largest outdoor design and build firms in Arizona.
But somewhere in all that growth, I noticed something I couldn't ignore. My own kids were spending more and more time on an iPad while Mom finished work — and I wasn't okay with it. So I started bringing them outside with me. Cooking dinner, floating in the pool, sitting together in the spa, jumping on the trampoline, planting the garden — anything to draw their attention off a screen and back to each other. They felt better. I felt better. And it hit me: this is the whole point.
That realization changed everything. The scale we'd built had started to dilute the craft I loved and the close client relationships that made the work meaningful. So we made a deliberate choice to return to our roots — a bespoke design and build studio taking on a select group of clients, so every space gets the artistry and attention it deserves.
Because a great outdoor should never be an afterthought, we now collaborate with architects and interior designers from the earliest home planning stages — designing the landscape, pool, and living areas in concert with the home itself, as one seamless vision.
This is more than a backyard. It's where your family comes back together — off the screens.
THE GOAL is very simple.We're here to help you FALL IN LOVE with your OWN HOME
Hello there.
I'm Haley Tew.
Professional plant collector, lead designer, founder, grilling savant, neighborhood Mom and undisputed queen of the pool party.
I grew up on five acres in the Nebraska countryside — and when I was eight, my parents had finally had it with TV and disconnected our house from it entirely. So I grew up outside, imagination running wild, right beside them on their endless construction projects (home projects are their love language). The year we put in a swimming pool, everything changed: ours became the home with friends over constantly, the grill always going, core memories made daily. Looking back, I was quite literally born to do what I do now — create spaces where families and friends come together, outdoors.
When it came time for college, no single major fit. Interior design stopped at the walls; landscape architecture leaned toward parks and public spaces, not homes. So I married the two and earned a dual-major degree from ASU in Landscape Architecture and Interior Design — an education I doubt more than a handful of people in the country share. Twenty years later, I've spent my whole career in outdoor living.
I do my best work on acre-plus properties, and I love joining the home's design team from the very start, so real outdoor living can be planned — never retrofitted. And my "why" only deepened when my own kids started making friends around the neighborhood: I want ours to be the home all the kids come to, not the one sitting empty.
"my favorite part of my job? the pictures i receive of your kids doing their first cannonball."
QUICK FACTS
I'm A textbook elder millenial
tomboy turned boy mom
i am the pool party queen
PET PEEVE? mansplaining
ALWAYS BUYING PLANTS & Planners
lifting heavy things often
words of affirmation/acts of service
secretly great at ping pong
The best backyards shape the people who live in them.
- haley tew