A Long-Term Vision
Vida Gardens.
A vision taking root.
Therapeutic gardens for healing. An attached nursery. A sensory-gardens nonprofit serving the Southeast. The work La Vida is moving toward, one season at a time.
The Vision
Gardens that don’t just look beautiful. Gardens that help people heal.
Founder Triston Parsons originally enrolled at UAB for occupational therapy. The instinct to help people recover, regulate, and find rhythm never left. Vida Gardens is what happens when that instinct meets a landscape company , sensory gardens designed alongside care providers, families, and patients themselves.
Four Pillars
What we’re building toward.
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Pediatric Wellness
Sensory gardens designed alongside pediatric therapists. Tactile, regulating, and safe spaces for children with sensory processing needs.
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Geriatric Wellness
Memory gardens and accessible outdoor rooms designed with senior living communities, tested by the residents who use them.
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Sensory Gardens Nonprofit
A 501(c)(3) building public sensory gardens across the Southeast, free for the families who need them most.
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Therapeutic Nursery
An attached nursery growing the specimen plants Vida Gardens specifies, closing the loop from seed to installed garden.
Roadmap
A long path, walked one step at a time.
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1
Today
Horticultural therapy installs
Therapeutic gardens delivered as part of La Vida Landscapes residential and institutional projects. Today’s work feeds tomorrow’s playbook.
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2
Near-term
Vida Gardens nursery launch
Attached nursery in the Birmingham metro, growing the specimen plants therapeutic gardens depend on.
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Mid-term
Sensory Gardens nonprofit launch
501(c)(3) status, partnerships with pediatric and senior care institutions, and the first publicly-accessible Vida Garden.
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Long-term
Franchise & multi-state expansion
La Vida Landscapes and Vida Gardens, integrated as a franchisable model, planted in Huntsville, Smith Lake, and beyond.
Partner with Us
Care provider, donor, or builder. We’d love to talk.
Vida Gardens is a long arc and we’re still in chapter one. If you run a pediatric clinic, a senior-living community, a foundation, or you simply care about gardens that heal , we’d love to find a way to build with you.