About the studio

You Get a Plan Any Nursery Can Fill.

Vale Courtis draws courtyards. Small ones. Tampa ones. On paper, in 3D, plant by plant.

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A drafting table with a hand-drawn courtyard plan, brass dividers and a fern
Studio table · Fowlers Bluff Ct

Why we draw

Small Space. Full Drawing.

Most courtyard gardens fail the same way. Someone buys plants on a Saturday. Nobody measured the shade. By August, half of them are gone.

Vale Courtis started in Tampa to fix that. Draw first. Count every plant. Check it against the sun at 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Then hand the set to whoever builds it.

A 14-by-22-foot court gets the same care as an acre. Less room means less forgiveness. Every plant earns its square foot.

“Plant for the shade you have, not the garden in the catalog.”

House rules

What We Do. What We Won’t.

Four lines the studio holds. Written down so you can hold us to them.

Rule 01

We measure on site.

Tape, level, a sun check. Photos never replace a site walk for a full plan.

Why: a wall that is 9 inches off ruins a bench.
Rule 02

We draw for Tampa.

Summer downpours, August heat, salt on the water side, one cold snap a winter. Every schedule is written for it.

Why: a plant that sulks by July is a bad plant.
Rule 03

We don’t install.

No crew. No markup on plants. The plan is portable. Any nursery prices it. Any installer builds it.

Why: our only interest is the drawing.
Rule 04

We price flat.

Concept Sketch $640. Courtyard Plan $2,340. Plan + Nursery Day $3,175. Half to start, half on delivery.

Why: no hourly meter on the base fee.

In the drawing set

Four Sheets That Travel

What lands in your inbox at handoff.

Base plan

Your space, measured. Walls, gates, drains, trees that stay.

3D views

Two viewpoints. Walk the courtyard before it exists.

Planting plan

Every plant placed, to scale, sized for year three.

Plant schedule

Name, size, count, spacing. A nursery fills it line by line.

Start here

Tell Us the Space. We Pick the Package.

Twenty minutes. Size, sun, what’s there now. Replies within one business day.

Studio
1010 Fowlers Bluff Ct, Tampa, FL 33617
Hours
By appointment — book a call