Landscape Design for transitional housing.

Eight trees, eight womena. Each tree represents a woman who lives in the transitional home. Mithun worked with Five Keys Home Free to create a landscape at this transitional housing for women who are survivors of domestic violence. These women had been wrongfully sentenced to prison for killing their abusers. They were being released. This is a transitional space and home to eight of these inspiring women. All materials and labor were donated for this project during this very unpredictable and powerful pandemic summer. The trees: Maytenus boaria; Arbutus x ‘Marina’ standard; Betula jacquemontii; Cercis canadensis; Acer rubrum ‘October Glory’; Magnolia stellata; Trachycarpus fortunei; Quercus agrifolia; Quercus lobate; Quercus subur; Jacaranda mimosifolia. This project happened during the deadheat of the pandemic. All money, materials, and labor were donated. Tim Mollette-Parks came up with the powerful idea of having eight trees to represent the eight women who would live here. He is without a doubt the most talented landscape architect I’ve worked with to date, in addition to being a good man with no pretense. This was a magical project. There were so many people involved, and so little money. I guess it was a self-selecting group from the beginning, because the entire process was a blossoming. Smooth, concerted, and humbly beautiful. It was an honor.