Fernando Wong & Tim Johnson

Since its founding in 2005 by Fernando Wong and Tim Johnson, Fernando Wong Outdoor Living Design has become one of the most sought-after landscape design firms in the world.

Using classical architectural principles and over 20 years of experience designing landscapes for large homes, hotels, museums and parks, the firm creates comprehensive master plans for its projects. It works with installers and nurseries to create sustainable and magnificent landscapes that are integrated with and sympathetic to the architecture and terrain.

Fernando Wong is an award-winning internationally recognized landscape designer who has been called a “design genius with the soul of a poet” by Elle Decor "one of the most important landscape designers in America” by Architectural Digest a “landscape legend” by Forbes and “one of the best landscape designers in the world” by the Chelsea Design Centre, London. He is the first landscape designer in the 175-year history of Town & Country Magazine to get a full 6-page all-garden feature. His television show “Clipped” with Martha Stewart is on the HGTV/Discovery Plus channels, and his work has been featured on The Today Show as well as in magazines and newspapers around the world. He has won the most prestigious award in Classical Architecture, the Palladio Award, as well as numerous Addison Mizner awards from the Institute of Classical Art & Architecture. His garden at the David Harber Trade Stand won 5 gold stars at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London.

In addition to residential commisions around the globe, his projects include the Four Seasons Hotel at the Surf Club Miami, the Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach, the Four Seasons Private Residences Fort Lauderdale, the Gasparilla Inn & Beach Club, the Seminole Golf Club, the Perry Lane and Mansion Hotels in Savannah, the Lyford Cay Club Serpentine, Kaiya Beach Resort and a National Park for the Bahamian Government.

The firm is a boutique landscape architecture company that accepts a limited number of projects and has offices in Palm Beach and Miami.

“Fernando and I immediately hit it off, realizing that we spoke the same language, “serious gardener tongue”, Fernando with a Spanish accent and I with my New Jersey/New York college girl intonations.

As we discussed the presentations, it occurred to me that Fernando actually knew an awful lot about shrubs but also a lot about landscaping and landscape design.”

— MARTHA STEWART —

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