Viola Gardens

Viola Gardens is a full-service, boutique landscape design and build firm curating ecologically sustainable and artistically conceived landscapes throughout Los Angeles County for two decades. Founded and led by Jessica Viola—one of the few fully licensed female landscape designers and contractors in California—the firm is rooted in regenerative design, ecological literacy, and the belief that landscapes are living systems capable of healing land, people, and community.

Over the last 18+ years, Jessica has become a recognized leader in ecological landscape resilience work, crafting solutions informed by climate reality and the unique ecological conditions of Southern California. Her work integrates native and fire-resilient plant communities, erosion mitigation, habitat restoration, and strategic site planning—guided by permaculture ethics and whole-systems thinking. Every garden is designed not just to look beautiful when installed, but to remain adaptive, alive, biodiverse, and enduring over time.

Jessica is also the founder of The Art & Ecology Studio in Malibu — a botanical showroom, nonprofit learning hub, and community gathering space dedicated to creative ecology, public education, art, ecology salons, biodiversity learning, and regenerative cultural practice.

She is the author of A Hundred Bells: Understanding Patterns in Nature on the Path to Empowerment, a visual and poetic exploration of how natural patterns can guide personal growth, collective evolution, and creative resilience.

For 20 years, Viola Gardens has helped communities rebuild, regenerate, and imagine what is possible. Each landscape becomes a living composition integrating art, soul, science, and ecological intelligence—designed for resilience, reciprocity, belonging, and legacy.