Serving Tarpon Springs, Florida
Native landscaping built for Tarpon Springs.
Historic coastal character, unique soil, and a strong sense of place. Tarpon Springs yards deserve landscapes that honor the area's history and ecology. We design native gardens that look like they belong here.
Tarpon Springs Gardens
A garden built for Tarpon Springs, not shipped in from somewhere else.
Tarpon Springs has a mix of bayou, coastal, and inland conditions unlike anywhere else in Tampa Bay. Some yards sit on sandy dunes. Others are heavy clay. Some have salt air. Others are protected by mature canopy.
Our Tarpon Springs work has included some of our favorite projects ever, including a backyard transformation with crushed shell pathways and a bayou-adjacent landscape built with oolite limestone boulders from Miami.
Whatever your Tarpon Springs property needs, there's a native Florida plant palette that works for it. We design for the site, the history, and the homeowner's vision, not a generic template.
How we help →Where we work
Tarpon Springs neighborhoods we serve
We service all of Tarpon Springs, from historic downtown to bayou-adjacent properties. Every project starts with understanding the site's specific soil, light, and salt exposure.
Recent projects
Our work in Tarpon Springs and the Tampa Bay area
How we help Tarpon Springs properties
Whether it's a full redesign or simply getting the right plants in the ground, we design around what Tarpon Springs gives you.
Florida native landscape design
A full garden built around plants that belong in Tarpon Springs. Designed around your exact sun, drainage, and microclimate.
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Hardscape design
Patios, pathways, dry river beds, retaining walls. Stonework that handles Tarpon Springs's conditions without falling apart.
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Irrigation & lighting
Florida's dry season runs October through May. We design irrigation that puts water exactly where Tarpon Springs plants need it, so nothing dies waiting for June.
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Permaculture design
A Tarpon Springs garden that feeds you back. Edible gardens and food forests designed to produce year-round while rebuilding the soil underneath them.
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Specimen tree sourcing and planting
Mature native trees placed for immediate impact. Gumbo limbo, live oak, cabbage palm, sourced from Florida growers who know what survives here.
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Garden maintenance & monitoring
Your Tarpon Springs landscape changes with every season. We stay with it, pruning, adjusting, watching for problems before they spread.
Get in touch →What Tampa Bay homeowners say
★★★★★ Google ReviewsKaimesha and team are top notch. 5+ stars! Every step of the process was professional and friendly. The design is presented in a comprehensive book with diagrams and a care guide.
Kim Benson
Native landscape design
I hired Kiamesha and Living Spaces to revamp my front yard, and I couldn't be happier! They integrated native plants that are low-maintenance and stunning.
Scott Grisack
Front yard redesign
Kiamesha, Justis, Osiris and Ether were a terrific team to put together a Florida native yard for me. The rain garden is my favorite part!
Joan Hartsough
Native yard + rain garden
Kia and her team did an amazing job at our new home in Dunedin. A native planting design that looks great and is easy to maintain.
Edward Oliu
Native planting, Dunedin
Our ho-hum suburban lawn has become a haven for butterflies, bees, and an occasional bunny. We are grateful for the expertise and ongoing support.
Wynn
Front yard landscape design
Living Spaces Gardening transformed my outdoor space into a vibrant garden complete with an efficient irrigation system, exceeding all expectations.
Mikey Vongdara
Garden + irrigation
Kiamesha, Justus and the Team did a fantastic job transforming our backyard mess into a tropical paradise filled with native Florida plants.
Steve Jarae
Backyard transformation
We had our entire yard transformed by Living Spaces Gardening and are very happy with the results.
Rob Neumann
Full yard transformation
I love that they only work with Florida natives and took the time to educate me on how all the plants work together.
Xan
Native garden design
Kiamesha, Justice, and their team designed and installed a wonderful dry river bed in my front yard with all Florida native plants.
Steve Teichgraeber
Dry river bed + native plants
Kaimesha and team are top notch. 5+ stars! Every step of the process was professional and friendly. The design is presented in a comprehensive book with diagrams and a care guide.
Kim Benson
Native landscape design
I hired Kiamesha and Living Spaces to revamp my front yard, and I couldn't be happier! They integrated native plants that are low-maintenance and stunning.
Scott Grisack
Front yard redesign
Kiamesha, Justis, Osiris and Ether were a terrific team to put together a Florida native yard for me. The rain garden is my favorite part!
Joan Hartsough
Native yard + rain garden
Kia and her team did an amazing job at our new home in Dunedin. A native planting design that looks great and is easy to maintain.
Edward Oliu
Native planting, Dunedin
Our ho-hum suburban lawn has become a haven for butterflies, bees, and an occasional bunny. We are grateful for the expertise and ongoing support.
Wynn
Front yard landscape design
Living Spaces Gardening transformed my outdoor space into a vibrant garden complete with an efficient irrigation system, exceeding all expectations.
Mikey Vongdara
Garden + irrigation
Kiamesha, Justus and the Team did a fantastic job transforming our backyard mess into a tropical paradise filled with native Florida plants.
Steve Jarae
Backyard transformation
We had our entire yard transformed by Living Spaces Gardening and are very happy with the results.
Rob Neumann
Full yard transformation
I love that they only work with Florida natives and took the time to educate me on how all the plants work together.
Xan
Native garden design
Kiamesha, Justice, and their team designed and installed a wonderful dry river bed in my front yard with all Florida native plants.
Steve Teichgraeber
Dry river bed + native plants
Good questions
Tarpon Springs questions
about native landscaping
Tarpon Springs has varied conditions, from coastal salt-adjacent yards to inland bayou properties. Common high-performing natives include live oak, cabbage palm, saw palmetto, seagrape, gumbo limbo, muhly grass, firebush, and coontie. We match the plant palette to your exact site.
Yes. Bayou-adjacent properties benefit from native plants that stabilize soil and filter stormwater, like cordgrass, Virginia willow, swamp milkweed, and bald cypress. We design with the waterway in mind, protecting it rather than polluting it.
Steve Jarae wrote about his Tarpon Springs project: "Kiamesha, Justus and the Team did a fantastic job transforming our backyard mess into a tropical paradise filled with native Florida plants. The nine oolite limestone boulders sourced from Miami make an added statement, and the almost 400 feet of pathways lined with limestone rocks makes for a great early morning coffee walk."
Yes. We have installed flagstone pathways, oolite limestone boulder features, and crushed shell walkways in Tarpon Springs. Every hardscape element is chosen to match the landscape and the town's historic character.
Our office is at 2621 4th Ave S in St. Petersburg, about 45 minutes from Tarpon Springs. We work the area regularly and know its specific soil, salt exposure, and ecology.
Meet the family
The Wray-Weisensel Family
Kiamesha Wray and Justus Weisensel are the couple behind Living Spaces Gardening and Living Restorations. Family owned, family operated. Based in St. Petersburg since day one.
Kiamesha is a certified Florida Master Naturalist. She grew up on dig sites with her archaeologist mother and spent weekends camping along Florida's rivers and springs with her father. Justus is a premier woodworker and builder. He's the one grading your soil, placing the boulders, building the things that have to last.
Their kids fuel everything they do. Every native garden they restore is a piece of the Florida the next generation will inherit. Their crew has been with them for years. When they take on your project, these are the people who show up.
As featured in Homes & Gardens, November 2025.
- Experienced Florida Master Naturalist
- FANN credentialed native plant professional
- Featured in Homes & Gardens, Nov 2025
- Based at 2621 4th Ave S, St. Petersburg
- Serving Tampa Bay since 2018
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