Michael Cavanagh began admiring the landscape as an 8 year old from a broad quadruple fork in middle of a white oak on the western shore of Narragansett Bay around 1974.

He began general landscape and tree services in Rhode Island in the 1980’s working for many years for the Sakonnett Landscape and Tree Service while studying landscape painting at Brandeis University in Waltham MA.

After several more seasons of horticultural tutelage at S.R. Thorneycroft Ltd., a horticulture and garden service company in Newport, RI, he opened his own business in 1992 offering services in estate gardening, garden design, and tree care.

In 1994 he became a Rhode Island Certified Arborist and a member of the Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association and is still in active standing.

International work during winter seasons in Japan in 1996, and winters in the Dominican Republic from 1995 through 2000 have provided a broad foundation of landscape experience and horticultural knowledge. In particular, the work in Hispaniola involved management of over 15 acres of land involving the use of tropical hardwoods, fruits, flowers, and water management that was off the electrical grid.

In 2002 he completed a one-year intensive program of study at the Conway School of Landscape Design in MA earning a Master’s Degree in Landscape Design. The program focuses on live community projects and included planning for North Stonington, CT and Southborough, MA. Following the program, Michael resumed landscape practice in Newport, Rhode Island and began branching out in Newport County and South County RI with a new design base focused on sustainable, ecological principles.

In 2003 Michael worked with the Roger Williams Park in Providence on the preliminary planning for the intended (not actualized) New England Botanical Gardens.

With three children and an acre of native plants overlooking the eastern shore of Narragansett Bay, he continues to operate a design/ build practice of landscape service throughout southern RI. His wife Sheri adds to these services as a Feng Shui practitioner and an Interior Designer, complimenting landscape decisions through her vision and experience.