Creating and nurturing spaces that connect people and nature.

KP Design offers a fresh, artistic approach to landscape architecture, garden design, and fine gardening to discerning homeowners in the Newport, RI area. As a small, local company, we provide attentive service with an eye for detail, quality workmanship based on extensive land care knowledge, and complete flexibility for outdoor spaces of all sizes. We LOVE plants!

Proudly serving Newport, Middletown, Portsmouth, and Jamestown, RI since 2008

Katie Adams

Katie Parent Adams, President, Co-Owner, and Founder of KP Design, and a Registered Landscape Architect (RI RLA #671), has worked in the landscape and floral industry in various creative capacities for over two decades. Ever since her very first job in a flower shop, she has loved being around flowers. Truly passionate about plants, she strives to connect people and nature through creative and beautiful spaces.

Katie holds a Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Georgia, in Athens, GA, where her thesis on land art was passed with distinction in 2007. She also holds a Bachelor of Art in English and Art History from Tufts University in Medford, MA (2001).

Prior to founding KP Design in 2008, Katie worked as a landscape designer for Katherine Field and Associates, Inc. in Newport, RI, where she managed multiple high-end residential projects from 2007-2008. Katie also worked at the Boston branch of ValleyCrest Landscape Development, the largest landscape contractor in the country, as a landscape estimator from 2001-2004.

From 2009-2015, Katie also worked as the head gardener for the Newport Restoration Foundation, working part-time and seasonally on the seaside grounds of Rough Point, the historic Doris Duke estate on Newport’s famed Bellevue Avenue.

Committed to a life of learning, Katie is a CRMC Certified Invasive Plant Manager, and a graduate of the 2008 UMASS Extension Green School. In 2010, Katie attended the Northeast Organic Farming Association’s week-long Organic Land Care class. In 2012, she also developed and taught a class on landscape architecture and land art at Western New England University in Springfield, MA.

Chris Adams

Chris Adams, Co-Owner and Head Foreman of KP Design LLC, has worked in the boat industry for decades and brings his love of the outdoors and his high level of customer service experience to the world of gardening. A long-time Newport resident, Chris's love for the local landscape and the local people guides the work he does. As a graduate of Newport’s Rogers High School and the 2016 UMASS Extension Green School, Chris prides himself on helping bring clients’ garden dreams to life, through honest listening,
hard work, and creativity.