The company combines a passion for plant materials with a sincere interest in the history of landscape architecture to create designs that evolve from a site’s cultural and physical environment.  Each design is informed by a site’s geography, ecology, and history.  Spatial organization is created by focusing on how people move through a place, how a series of spaces is connected, how objects and materials frame and form the proportions of a project.  Aesthetic sensitivity is balanced by an interest in the symbolic nature of the built environment and a commitment to sustainable landscape design.

PB&Co is committed to environmental sustainability and is dedicated to the health and wellbeing of both people and the planet. We strive to incorporate sustainable design features such as rainwater harvesting for irrigation, bioswales and rain gardens to recharge groundwater reserves, a biodiverse and drought resilient plant palette to protect habitat, and light colored permeable paving and shade trees to reduce the heat island effect into every project.

The firm’s work has been featured in numerous publications and tours including Regional Landscape Architecture: Southern California: Mediterranean Modern published in 2019 and The Cultural Landscape Foundation Tours in 2022.  Princeton Architectural Press published a monograph of the firm’s work, Pamela Burton Landscapes, and Burton co-authored with Marie Botnick, Private Landscapes:  Modernist Gardens in Southern California.  The firm’s work has been honored with 34 awards over the past 5 years.

PB&Co is certified as a Women Business Enterprise (WBE) and Small Local Business (SLB) by the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Contract Administration, Office of Contract Compliance (OCC). The company is also federally certified as a Small Women Business Enterprise (SWBE) with the System for Award Management (SAM), State of California Small Business (Micro) with the Department for General Services (DGS) and is registered with the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works.