Carmen has over twenty years of professional experience from community-based planning projects, to streetscapes, parks, and private gardens. Her roots as a gardener, environmentalist, and artist reach back even farther. In her own garden she experiments with regenerative design strategies, edible landscaping, and native plants.
Clients value Carmen's sustainable landscape expertise and native plant knowledge. They also appreciate her ability to think through design problems, to visualize and communicate ideas, to collaborate, and manage projects in a timely manner.
Since establishing Carmen Simonet Design in 2003, Carmen's projects have included residential garden designs, planting plans for businesses, developing a park overlooking Saint Anthony Falls, graphic design for an engaging series of interpretive signs, and a sustainable landscape plan to "green" the Midtown Greenway from Hiawatha Avenue to the Mississippi River.