Dana Kash is a Landscape Designer at FORM Garden Design, bringing eight years of professional design experience and a creative, art-informed perspective to the studio’s work. With a background in art and editorial, she is deeply curious about plants, materials, light, shadow, color, and all the subtle elements that shape how a space feels.

Dana is especially drawn to planting design and loves the puzzle of bringing together plants that look beautiful and thrive in the right conditions. She enjoys the many phases of design, from early concepts to detailed development, and finds real satisfaction in problem-solving alongside collaborators to bring ideas to life.

Dana earned her undergraduate degree in Fine Art from Cornell University, where she studied painting as well as video and light installations, took classes in urban planning, and traveled to Rome with architecture students—experiences that deepened her interest in the built environment and cities. She went on to earn her Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. During her studies, she received a grant to travel to Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, where she spent a month drawing, photographing, and exploring the relationship between people, water, and landscape. After graduate school, she worked at design firms in New York and Baltimore before joining FORM Garden Design.

A lifelong garden-lover inspired by her mother’s passion for plants, Dana grew up touring historic gardens and earning her allowance by keeping up with the family’s garden weeding. Today, she enjoys working with clients and families as they grow into and care for their landscapes over time. Outside of work, she’s the parent of two young children, shares her home with her husband, a street cat, and an inherited dog, and enjoys gardening, hiking, cooking without recipes, and traveling in an Airstream—where she once lived for two years.