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 Los Angeles, she knows the Southern California landscape intimately. Its light, its rhythms, its quiet drama.
Our Offerings
Explore how we can bring your vision to life through:
Garden Design: For spaces ready for a bigger transformation. We design gardens with California natives, edible plants, pollinator habitat, fruit trees, raised beds, pathways and other elements that make the garden feel complete.
We handle the plants from selection and sourcing through planting, and can work with your existing gardener or bring in our own trusted crew. Learn More
Porch & Potted Garden Styling: Not every garden needs a yard.
We create layered, plant filled spaces for porches, patios, courtyards and the forgotten corners around a home. We can work with what you already have, bring in new plants and pots, and hunt for vintage pieces when the space calls for them.
Ready to start small?
Visit the Wild & Tame Store for citrus trees, houseplants, seasonal plants and other small ways to bring a little more wild home.
Our Philosophy
Beauty. Ecology. Belonging.
A garden should be beautiful, but beauty is only the beginning.
We want birds in it. Bees in it. Things you can eat. Plants that belong here and a few strange things simply because you fell in love with them.
We believe a garden gets better as it grows in. A little wilder. A little more itself. Leaves fall. Flowers go to seed. Fruit ripens. Something unexpected appears.
The garden is alive.
And you belong in it too.