Moving to Washington as a young adult, Joseph Schilling spent 4 years apprenticing with Richard Miller (Victorian Hortaculture) a master gardener from Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown. Some notable gardens he was responsible for while working there included: 'The Bell House' (Alexander Graham Bell), the Brady residence (Press Sec. President Reagen), and the former Georgetown home of cheif counsel to Lyndon Johnson.

Following this he spent four years installing less formal landscapes for Laura Foster's Bethesda Md. based company 'The Great Outdoors'.It was during this period that he also enrolled in George Washington University and began pursueing a degree in graphic design. Fate intervened however when he was approached to do the grounds for a private estate in Alexandria Va .

A year later his installation at The Washington Home and Garden Show took home the first place ribbon. Innundated with requests for designs, he has spent the last 5 years refining his ideas for naturalized gardens and meeting the challenges of managing the company he created to install them.

Joseph comes from a northeast 'garden variety' family. Oblivious to child labor restrictions, his Father thrust him and his brothers into a daily regimen of organic farming, azalea propagation, tree pruning, and stone wall construction beginning at about age 5. As a result the ability to identify a good loam is one of the many vanishing skills he shares with all six of his siblings.

Recently,he returned from a trip to Scotland where he observed the miles of moss encrusted and fitted stone walls characteristic of this part of the world.