VTLA | Victoria Taylor Landscape Architect

Thrilled to see Prince Edward County Arts Council announcing: Create Nature-Inspired Bird-Safe Window Decals with Iris Häussler & Victoria Taylor on May 31rst in Picton! This is a playful, hands-on art-making workshop on bird-friendly gardens and bird-safe windows. We start with a short explorative sketching/photography fieldtrip: walking through Delhi Park to visualize how birds see patterns and take inspiration for our own art-making. PrinceEdward County is a vital stopover for migrating birds. On their journeys, however, more than about 25 million birds die each year from window collisions in Canada alone. Why is that? Research shows how birds mistake reflections of sky and trees in glass and become victims of these optical illusions. Together, we’ll ask: “How can we make a difference in our immediate natural environment?” The most effective answer is: by treating glass surfaces to optically break these reflections. In this workshop, you’ll craft your own decorative bird-safe window designs that function as decals. Patterns by foliage, bark, fractal light, natural forms, and Art Nouveau, or geometric shapes will be our inspirations. You will learn: • Why and how glass reflections of buildings and railings in the urban-and rural environment pose a threat to migrating birds • How to make decorative, durable vinyl patterns and designs for windows that are bird safe (you take your sample creation home) • The important role of using native shrubs to transform your garden into bird-friendly habitat • Other creative DIY measures to treat windows temporarily, like using oil sharpies and oil-pastels for handwriting or calligraphy on glass-surfaces and DIY designs using burlap-string or fabrics • All materials provided. @countyarts #migratingbirds #zugvögel #windowcollision #visitthecounty #BirdSafe #WindowDecals #BirdConservation #PrinceEdwardCounty #NatureWorkshop #ArtAndNature #BirdBiodiversity #SustainableDesign #CommunityArt @vtla_studio @iris.haeussler @flapcanada #designforbirds #nativeplants #bringnaturehome #artandscience #windowcollision #songbirds #migration #workshop

Gardens are dynamic landscapes—through design, they can look beautiful in every season. One of our shoreline regeneration projects is coming to life as the snow recedes in its fourth spring. A highlight during this client visit @martinjgravel to see Bloodroot in bloom, an elusive native spring ephemeral - flowers last one 1-2 days - nestled with Cornus sericea on the shaded ridge of the large rain garden. Landscape contractor @alwaysbuiltwright . . #regenerativelandscapes #sanguinariacanadensis #cornussericea #landscapearchitecture #plantingdesign

Designing public art goes beyond creativity—it requires an understanding of structure, safety, and accessibility. Join me Saturday April 25 for Making Artwork Safe + Inclusive, part of @countyarts Public Art Workshop Series. It’s free! Drawing on my experience designing freestanding structures for private and public landscapes, we’ll explore the elements that support and shape the creative process—flanges, fasteners, footings, ramps, guardrails, surfaces and more! We’ll look at the human and environmental forces that impact outdoor works, when do you need a PEng., and helping you become familiar with the language of structural systems and inclusive design. The earlier these considerations are integrated into your process, the more seamlessly they become part of your vision. The result? Stronger grant proposals, more resolved and compelling artworks, and a thoughtful, efficient approach to materials and site. Create work that’s not only beautiful—but resilient, responsible, and built to last. 👉🔗 in bio to register. Thanks to @blackwellengineers for providing helpful public art Case Studies. 📸 2 Maman 1999, cast 2003 by Louise Bourgeois, National Gallery, Ottawa (photo from Google) 📸 3 Couch Monster: Sadzěʔ yaaghęhch’ill, 2022 by Brian Jungen, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (photo from Google) 📸 4-5 Structural drawings (details) for Couch Monster by Odd Lot for AGO . . #publicart #creativeprocess #structuraldesign #accessibledesign

Big thanks to @architourist @globeandmail April 3, 2026 for capturing the vision, the journey, the dedication, and hard work behind this amazing project .. ✨This is HQ for @righttofoodcanada 🙌 It’s been an honour to work alongside an incredible client team, Hilditch Architects, plus the consultants, suppliers, trades, builders and DONORS!! that brought the Sumac Community Food Centre to life in Gerrard East. Soon the gardens will emerge and we will see Sumac!! 🌱 👉 Visit @righttofoodcanada to learn about their programs and how to support the important work. . . #communityfoodcentre #righttofood #teamwork #nativeplantgarden #communitykitchen

These spring rains won’t last long.. Are you ready for this summer’s heat and drought? As landscape architects, we look at land differently. With site planning and design we shape the 3D landscape, sculpting public and private spaces to hold every drop💧…. celebrating the rain rather than piping it away. Designing rain gardens, bioswales, permeable pavement and greenroofs, regenerating hedgerows, and planning trails we use water where it falls and specify the right plants for beauty + biodiversity ++++ life!🌱🦋👌 Get out your rain barrels, connect your cisterns and listen to the farmers around PEC who know what it means to have their wells run dry. Thx to the @bayofquinte_greens for hosting the recent panel sharing the experiences of a dairy, beef and grape farmer as they face the realities of our changing climate. 📸 Delhi Park, Picton. By the old baseball diamond. April 1 2026. Marsh Creek Valley floodplain, Cultural Heritage Landscape . . #landscapearchitecture #designclimateaction #lowimpactdesign #greeninfrastructure #stormwatermanagement

This 200 yr old Sugar Maple grows in our studio garden. She shares her spring sap 🌳🤎👅 . . #sugarmaple #ontarionativeplants #🇨🇦 #plantmoretrees #whatareyoudrinking @maplemadnesspec

Winter light reveals the quiet strength of native grasses bending to intense winds off Lake Ontario… their deep roots hold the County’s fragile shoreline, their stems soften the land and sky and help to deter geese landings.💨🌱 Recent photos from our work on a multi-phased regeneration project in Prince Edward County. Once forest. Then field. Now — a living landscape of native conifers and hardwoods, perennial gardens, experimental orchard, windbreak berms, birds, bees, and biodiversity returning. Thanks to @alwaysbuiltwright @kobesnurseries @dropseed.pec @dibbits.ca , steel fence by Cobalt Fabrication and especially to our clients for the work and an inspired design brief! 📸 6: Ostrya virginiana hardy into Yr4 🍂 #naturebaseddesign #regenerativelandscape #lakeontarioshoreline #habitatrestoration #landscapearchitecture

Back to the classics 📚 Prepping for Flashback February talk. Sat Feb 21 Macaulay Museum, Picton with PEC Heritage Conservancy, @deptofillumination and the Aurora Borealis Community Choir. 💚📣🎶🏡🌳✨❄️ Join us as we all learn more about this place. Tickets in bio 🔗 Thank you to our sponsors @thecountymuseums and @experiencepicton . . #💚delhipark #truthandreconciliation #place #home

Delhi Then & Now: From Marsh Creek and Village to the People’s Park 📅 February 21 📍 Macaulay Heritage Park, 23 Church Street, Picton ON ⏰ 2:00 PM Presented by PEC Heritage Conservancy, Friends of Delhi Park💚, The Department of Illumination @deptofillumination and The Aurora Borealis Community Choir You are invited “over Delhi” (as the saying goes) on Saturday, February 21 at 2:00pm, to learn about the origins and development of Picton’s oldest neighbourhood, and how a new vision for Delhi Park will shape the future of Picton. This event is presented by PEC Heritage Conservancy, Friends of Delhi Park💚, The Department of Illumination, and The Aurora Borealis Community Choir. First, we’ll gather in the old church at Macaulay Heritage Park, for presentations and refreshments. Then the Department of Illumination and the Aurora Borealis Community Choir will lead us in a procession to Delhi Park, to light up the park with sound and colour! $15 + fees in advance through Ticketscene (https://ticketscene.ca/events/57768/) or $20 cash at the door or PWYC Sponsored by the Picton BIA, this event is part of a series produced by the PEC Heritage Conservancy, a local nonprofit, to help raise money to digitize the HASPE Collection at the Wellington Archives. Join us for history, community, and a glowing celebration of Delhi Park as part of Flashback February 💚

Landscape architecture is a choreography of collaborations—making moves on the land, tying into hydrologic flows, thinking differently about how we move through our shared outdoor spaces…. Prepping for a weekend workshop @countyarts with choreographer @christophehouse : Choreographic Thinking for All Artists 📸: Bringing 10 small objects in a sack for a study. We are all objects in space. Looking forward! 🟧🌱 . . #LandscapeArchitecture #ChoreographicThinking #sharedspaces #DesignProcess #CreativePractice

What better way to spend a Sunday morning than gathering to talk about a garbage dump?! Our minds have returned to our beloved Delhi Park in Picton, which sits atop the dump in question. We pored over maps, newspaper clippings and photos as we prepare for our Flashback February event: DELHI THEN & NOW: From Marsh Creek and Village to the People’s Park 💚 WHEN: 2 PM, Saturday February 21 WHERE: Macaulay Heritage Park, Picton Learn about the origins and development of Picton’s oldest neighbourhood, and how a new vision for Delhi Park will shape the future of Picton. This event is presented by PEC Heritage Conservancy, Friends of Delhi Park💚, The Department of Illumination and The Aurora Borealis Community Choir. First, we’ll gather in the old church at Macaulay Heritage Park for presentations (don’t worry, it’s not all about garbage!) Then the Department of Illumination and the ABC Choir will lead us in a procession to Delhi Park, to light up the park with sound and colour! $15 + fees in advance through Ticketscene (link in bio) or $20 cash at the door or PWYC Sponsored by the Picton BIA, this event is part of a series produced by the PEC Heritage Conservancy, a local non profit, to help raise money to digitize the HASPE Collection at the Wellington Archives. #princeedwardcounty #delhipark #pictonontario #pec #garbagedump @experiencepicton @vtla_studio

More slowing down, enjoying time outside, #💚delhipark, wishing for ❄️, planning for spring 2026 and this beaver spotting in Marsh Creek 👀🦆 Moving toward the light, peace✨ . . #slowlandscape #studiobreak #parksareessential