Behind the Garden Gate | ASLA 2025 Field Session Guide

Landscape Images Ltd. led an ASLA 2025 field session through private gardens, historic landscapes, and distinctive outdoor spaces across New Orleans.

The cover of Landscape Images Ltd.’s ASLA 2025 field session guide.

A close study in light, brick, planting, and texture within a New Orleans garden.

The guide introduced an inside look at the site, history, and design decisions that shape New Orleans gardens.

Founder Alan Mumford and president Marianne Mumford were among the Landscape Images guides for the ASLA field session.

Landscape architect Kim Alvarez and design associate John Bland helped guide the ASLA garden tour.

The field session explored the relationship among site analysis, historic context, planting, and client priorities.

The full-day field session moved through the French Quarter, Uptown, and Garden District.

Historic context helped frame how landscape architecture can preserve a sense of place while supporting contemporary life.

A contemporary garden carried the site’s layered history forward through structure, planting, and outdoor living.

Research and archival context were central to preparing the ASLA field session.

Landscape Images Ltd. thanked ASLA, the participating gardens, and attendees for joining the behind-the-scenes tour.

Landscape Images Ltd. creates landscape architecture rooted in planting, light, place, and long-term care.

ALSA 2025 Field Session Guide Project

Landscape Images Ltd. created Behind the Garden Gate: New Orleans for the 2025 ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture. The field session brought fellow landscape architects behind the gates of private French Quarter, Uptown, and Garden District properties to explore how New Orleans architecture, climate, history, and client priorities shape residential landscape design.

The tour examined gardens of different scales and styles—from intimate French Quarter courtyards to expansive Uptown estates and historic Garden District landscapes. Along the way, the session considered the role of site analysis, preservation, planting design, lighting, and the four art elements of landscape architecture: line, form, color, and texture.

This guide was created as both an educational resource and a record of the day: a closer look at how Landscape Images approaches design in a city where gardens are shaped as much by layered history and subtropical conditions as by the people who live within them.

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