About Wild & Tame
Los Angeles Garden Design & Plant Styling
Wild & Tame is a Los Angeles garden design and landscaping studio rooted in soulful, ecology-focused design. We specialize in native plant gardens in California style, creating spaces that feel intentional, lived-in, and deeply personal.
Our work blends native ecology with ritual, story, and a sense of home. From pollinator-friendly landscapes to edible garden design, we help you reconnect with land, season, and self.
Meet Melissa
Melissa Chinchilla is a Los Angeles garden designer and plant stylist with a lifelong connection to the soil. Born and raised in South Pasadena, she knows the native landscape intimately. Its light, its rhythms, its quiet drama. Melissa creates gardens where you love living in beauty, surrounded by nature that feels deeply personal to you. Her designs are conversation starters: elegant yet a little wild, intentional without being overworked. They are free to evolve and grow. Always more, never less.
Her work leans a bit goth, editorial, and intentional. Creating pollinator habitats, mini orchards, and custom raised beds that feel like quiet conversations between you, the land, and the seasons.
Our Offerings
Explore how we can bring your vision to life through:
Garden Design: Full outdoor transformations, including in-ground planting, custom raised beds, pathways, and California natives, edibles, and pollinators. We handle design, plant curation, delivery, and installation. Collaborate with your existing gardener or our expert team for a seamless process. Learn More
Plant Styling: Curated porch styling and interior plant stylist services. Seasonal plants that enhance your home, plus unique vintage decor sourced in Los Angeles. Learn More
Ready to start small? Check out our Shop (coming soon!) for curated plant packages like pollinator plant packs, citrus tree bundles, and berry packs. Perfect for edible landscapes or porch refreshes.
Our Philosophy
Beauty. Ecology. Belonging.
Every Wild & Tame garden nurtures all three. We believe in creating native plant gardens that thrive in California ecology, supporting pollinators, edibles, and rare finds from local providers. Spaces that mature with grace, always evolving.