Guided Path Planning & Garden Design

About Us

Guided Path was established in 2002 by Lorene J. Athey, a registered Landscape Architect in Delaware and Maryland. We design custom residential gardens and solve your yard problems. An independent design firm, we are not affiliated with a grower or contractor. Landscape design is our specialty including habitat, bird and butterfly gardens; rain gardens, eco-friendly and sustainable gardens; low-maintenance gardens; and meditation and memorial gardens.

 

"We could not have made it 'good-to-look-at' beautiful without you" Lyle & Cherie J.

 

Services

• Consultations
• Master Site Planning
• Landscape Plans
• On-site visits
• Plant lists customized for your site & preferences
• Plant Identification & Inventories
• Presentations

 

Lorene Athey

Ms Athey has been gardening in Delaware for more than 20 years, using many of the same plants she recommends to clients. The Athey Garden has been featured as a stop on the 2008 Enviro-Friendly Garden Tour, hosted by the Delaware Nature Society and City of Newark Parks & Recreation, and the 2011 Newark Arts Alliance Garden Tour. Ms Athey has over 20 years of design experience, completing hundreds of large and small residential projects for all kinds of clients, both novices and experienced gardeners.

 

 

Ms Athey is also an amateur photographer. Her photograph Bumblebee on Rose of Sharon won First Place in the 2007 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's annual photo contest. Bleeding Hearts won an Honorable Mention in 2008. Wheelbarrow at Sinking Springs Herb Farm was selected for the month of August in the 2004 MidAtlantic Farm Credit Calender.

 

Ms Athey has been interviewed several times about sustainable gardening and native plants for the radio program Progressive Voices on 91.3 WVUD. You can hear podcasts of her interviews (April 13, August 24, and August 31 2009) on their website.

 

selected gardening presentations & Article

• From Blah to Beautiful: Design techniques for improving your view, Institute for Retired Persons, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland, March 2011.
• Curb Appeal for Gardeners, New Castle County Master Gardeners, Spring 2011
• What's all the Fuss about Native Plants?, Wilmington Ski Club, Hockessin, Delaware, March 2010.
• Butterflies of Delmarva, Institute for Retired Persons, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland, March 2008.
• Gardens from Blah to Beautiful, Wilmington Branch of the American Association of University Women, Wilmington, Delaware, May 2007.
• Habitat Gardens: The Birds and the Bees of the Business, Delaware Nursery and Landscape Association annual meeting, Wilmington, Delaware, November 2005.
• Healing Gardens, Beebe Medical Center Management Team, Lewes, Delaware, July 2003.

 

• What is a Native Plant?, Delaware Nature Society Native Plant Sale, article in catalog, 2008.