About Mossaics

We incorporate bespoke solutions that encourage sustainability and harmony. By using organic methods and appropriate native plants, we will enrich the biodiversity of your land. Your site can host beautiful monarch butterflies probing purple blossoms of ironweed, spotted salamanders journeying over silent mats of moss to slip into a vernal pool, or dragonflies, wings glistening, waiting to devour a tasty mosquito.

As a designer, Christine will evaluate the site and determine its inherent characteristics. With careful planning, she creates an environmental mosaic, enhancing the life of a wetland, carpeting a woodland with spring ephemeral wildflowers, spreading a banquet for pollinators in a meadow or creating a soft, deep green moss garden. Christine transforms a site into an immersive experience, connecting a client’s personal landscape essence to the complexities, subtle beauties, sights, scents and sounds of nature, creating a sensitive emotional ambience.

As an educator, Christine has lectured throughout the northeast. She strives to promote public awareness of our fragile environment and generates enthusiasm for its continued health and balance. Christine’s programs combine her background in art with her love of science, engaging people with provocative landscape design possibilities, anecdotes of her colorful experiences with the natural world and providing visual enjoyment with her photography.

Mossaics is inspired and driven by the layering of time and the landscape, permanence and transience, the experience of waking up to the whimsy of wild columbines visited by hummingbirds, the hope of a fledgling cardinal’s determination and the serenity of spirit that comes with resting a dreaming head on a pillow of moss.

Nature presents many surprising gifts. We are part of them. We change with them. Christine would like to share these wonders with you.

About Christine Cook

Everyday things: newly gold leaves spiraling in eddies, the stars of Orion’s belt held for a breath in March branches, shy butterflies, spring peepers singing their hearts out, shimmering dragonflies and sidewalk crack mazes, green with moss have always inspired Christine to pursue beauty. In her art and landscape design she tries to create a living structure that emulates the spirit of William Blake’s world in a grain of sand.

Christine is inspired by the dialogue between nature, art and humanity and is committed to drawing attention to the impact we make on our environment. Her work as a landscape designer, specializing in conservation, and as a public speaker, uplifts the spirit and enriches our land.

She has a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and certificates in gardening, commercial horticulture and landscape design from New York Botanical Garden. Christine has studied bryology and odonatology at Eagle Hill Institute and bryology at Harvard University. She is an accredited landscape professional by the Northeast Organic Farming Association. Christine is a certified landscape leader professional with the Land Use Leadership Alliance. She is a certified monarch teacher by the Monarch Teacher’s Network.

She has a history of community activism. Christine served as conservation chairperson for the Connecticut Butterfly Association for 22 years. She was vice president of the Bridgeport Community Land Trust. Christine is a member of the Connecticut Butterfly Association, CT NOFA, the Native Plant Trust and the Aspetuck Land Trust.

Christine is also a member of and has had her home placed on the maps of both the Pollinator Pathway Project and the Homegrown National Park Project. Both of these organizations promote the understanding of the symbiotic relationship between native plants and beneficial insects, and their role in sustainable holisitic ecology. These organizations encourage planting native plants in your own backyard. Plant it and they will come!

She is listed, by invitation, as a landscape professional by the New England Wild Flower Society (The Native Plant Trust), as well as the society’s recipient of the 2007 Connecticut State Conservation Award.

She has been included in the books: Planting Noah’s Garden and Eco-women: Protectors of the Earth. Christine has been mentioned in numerous print articles found in: Fine Gardening, Garden Design, Martha Stewart Living, House and Garden, Boston Globe Magazine and the New York Times. Television appearances include the shows: Cultivating Life and Gardening by the Yard. She has been interviewed by the podcast Growing Green, “Designing Dragonfly Habitat”.

Several of Christine’s landscape designs have been on tours with the New England Wild Flower Society (The Native Plant Trust) and the New Canaan Nature Center.