A named designer
One person owns your project from the first sketch to the install-ready set. Their calendar, not a ticket queue, and you meet them by name on the discovery call.
Our story
It began with a build company, and a refusal.
In 1985, Chuck Smith started Alpha Zeta, a landscape design and build firm in Palm City, Florida. For four decades his team has drawn, planted, and built gardens across the Treasure Coast, the kind of work where you answer for every plant because you are the one putting it in the ground.
For years, homeowners outside the area asked him to design their yards too. He kept saying no. Designing a property he could not stand on, from satellite images alone, was exactly the wrong way to make a garden, and he would not put his name on it.
Sol & Arbor is how he finally said yes, without lowering the standard. Every plan still starts with the place. Photos, measurements, and a real read of your soil, your light, and how you actually want to live outside. The drawing comes second.
Today an in-house design team works from the same Palm City studio, designing for homeowners across the country. The company has grown. The reason it exists has not.
You can automate or use AI to create a rendering. But you cannot automate the forty-five years of experience thinking through every aspect and element that a home owner needs.
Chuck SmithOwner & Principal Designer