Keith Leblanc Shares His Latest Landscape Inspiration

Keith LeBlanc. Photo: Joe Navas

Keith LeBlanc wants you to know that landscape architecture isn’t about decoration. “It’s about shaping space and ecology,” says the founding partner of LeBlanc Jones Landscape Architects. LeBlanc and his husband are residents of both Boston and Cape Cod, where they are witnessing firsthand Cape Cod National Seashore’s fast-evolving coastal ecology. He prophesizes that residential landscapes of the future will feature smaller but more intentional outdoor spaces. “Native planting, climate-resilient design, and landscapes that prioritize sustainability and design simplicity will endure,” he says. Raised in the south (he earned his bachelor’s in landscape architecture from Louisiana State University) but a northerner since the ’90s, LeBlanc’s design ethos continues to be refined by vast and varied opportunities to shape both public and private spaces. A committed patron of the arts both personally and professionally, his firm will be honored this year for its hand in the refresh of the iconic Fine Arts Work Center campus in Provincetown, Massachusetts. leblancjones.com