What happens when a fine artist is also an innovative landscape designer and builder?

On these pages we hope to answer that and show you how important it is to choose the right company to handle the serious work of creating your gardens. Owner Stan Sperlak studied both Landscape Architecture/Ornamental Horticulture at Cumberland College in New Jersey and Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

Stan is now a regionally known painter of the South Jersey scenes and a sought after designer for projects ranging from "simple healing gardens" to total renovations of historic building grounds. From inland shade and woodland landscapes to beachfront construction, Cape Shore Gardens is more interested in the quality and long term satisfaction of the client versus the quick profit.

Cape Shore also specializes in native and wetland plants and is very involved with obtaining plants that are attractive to birds, butterflies, reptiles, insects and mammals, Their staff has become advisors to many of the local environmental commissions, civic groups, conservation organizations and Shade Tree Programs. There will always be a "right plant for the right place" when you work with Cape Shore.

Over the past two decades, Cape Shore has designed and installed dozens of the interesting landscapes you now see surrounding the historic homes, inns and restaurants in Cape May.

They have also successfully developed plant schemes for barrier island homes and gardens from Wildwood Crest to Avalon where the limiting conditions presented by the salt conditions of the Atlantic Ocean can be devastating to non hardy choices. When a client is looking for something original, competitively priced and well thought out, Cape Shore Gardens will listen and respond professionally.