Victor Gordon is a landscape designer, preservationist, and garden writer living in Durham, North Carolina. He has a master’s degree in historic preservation from Cornell University’s Department of City and Regional Planning. His blog, piedmont plots, began in the summer of 2007; piedmont plots, LLC was established two years later.

As a designer and garden coach, Victor plans, builds, and revises yards and gardens to suit the needs of his clients. The clients are usually bored with the “mow and blow” dogma that has turned their yards into expensive commitments. He can recommend a foundation planting of heirloom and fragrant shrubs to replace an overgrown hedge. Victor may show you how a boring strip of crabgrass could become a four season perennial border.  Let him create an implementation and maintenance plan for a successful plot of flowers and vegetables that will not force your kids and dogs into exile.

As a landscape historian and preservationist, he can also assist property owners, non-profits, and institutions looking to document, restore, and/or interpret their historic landscapes….whether it is an 18th century kitchen garden or an 80 year old public park.