The gardener at the other end of the phone.

01It started as chores.

Katherine grew up in a household where the garden was a family project — and the labor force was small. Her parents put her to work in the beds early: plantings, weeding, hauling, watering. The pay was room and board.

What was meant as chores turned into something else. She liked the rhythm of it. She liked watching a bed she'd helped plant in March come into its own by May. By the time she was old enough to opt out, she was the one volunteering.

"I was free child labor, more or less. I just happened to fall in love with it." — Katherine

Her first paying jobs — appropriately — were in retail floral and garden design: Plants 'N' Petals, then Central Market's floral department, then Whole Foods marketing, then Smith & Hawken. She moved into landscape operations in 2009. She is a graduate of the Texas Master Gardener program, with the formal credentials to back the instinct.

02The path here.

Katherine has spent more than seventeen years running the operational side of landscape companies in Houston. She started in 2009 as a Landscape Maintenance Supervisor at Southwest Property Landscaping and moved up through the industry from there.

The trajectory, in order:

• Southwest Property Landscaping — Landscape Maintenance Supervisor (2009–2013)
• LMS, Inc. dba Landscape Management Services — Maintenance Division Manager (2013–2015)
• Greater Texas Landscapes (now BrightView) — Account Manager (2015–2016)
• LMS — Assistant General Manager (2016–2019)
• Davey Tree (after Davey's acquisition of LMS) — Branch Manager, Commercial Landscape Services (2019–2022)
• Grow and Company — Director of Garden Management (2022–2025)
• Monarch Landscape Management — Branch Manager (2025–present)

What that résumé actually means: Katherine has spent more than a decade running P&L, scheduling, and crews at branch level for the biggest names in Houston commercial landscaping. She isn't a gardener who picked up business sense along the way. She's an operations leader, with the horticultural credentials to match, who chose to run a small residential practice on purpose. Green City Gardens is where the standards of a real landscape company get applied to one yard at a time — without routing you through a crew dispatcher.

03Credentials.

04How she works.

Katherine runs every project herself — site visit, proposal, scheduling, the work itself, and the punch list at the end. As Green City Gardens grows, more of the hands-on work will pass to trusted team members, but the standard doesn't change: Katherine sees the site, signs off on the plan, and is accountable for what happens in your garden.

What that means for you: one phone number, one inbox, one person who knows the history of your beds. No estimator handoffs. No "I'll have to ask the crew." If something changes mid-project, she'll tell you before the invoice does.

She is bilingual in English and Spanish, which matters when a project depends on clear communication with crews and trade partners.

05What she brings.