About meg & Kennedy

Long on beauty and utility.

If you’ve never worked with a landscape designer before, understanding the difference between contractors, landscape architects, and landscape designers can be confusing. You may recall there are landscape contractors, experts in sourcing, building, installing, planting, and bringing a project to life. There are landscape architects, often leaning toward the second part of their title and occasionally yearning to turn your backyard into a Brutalist utopia of flat grey surfaces with subtle hints of parsley. And then there are landscape designers, like us, who focus on creating thoughtful outdoor spaces that balance beauty, function, and the way you want to live outside.

Short on BS.

Long on beauty and utility.

Meaghan designs landscapes. Meaning, she thoughtfully scrutinizes what’s in and outside your home, then considers practical and budget-respecting ways to make each area coalesce into a beautiful, useful and fun ensemble. She leans toward humane over sterile, viable over theoretical, placing exotic plants where they can thrive and heartier flora where tenderer specimens would wilt or demand excessive attention.

What do we do differently?

How about everything?

Committed groundskeepers and never-touchers served here.

How much toil do you aim to do, or pay someone else to do, to keep up your outdoors? Some clients love being shoulder-deep in their shrubberies. We build fantasy greenscapes for them. Others don’t so much as own garden shears, let alone aspire to prune. We make hands-free paradises of simplicity for them. Still others want something that could be one thing this year, another the next – whether it’s themselves or hired help executing that vision. We install easily modifiable outdoor environments for them.

Our landscape designs are your lifestyle, tastes and ambitions extended outdoors.

What’s your maintenance quotient?

As founder and landscape designer behind Meg & Kennedy, Meaghan Chabot has a much-publicized accomplice named Kennedy. Except, has anyone ever met Kennedy? Well, it is time to expose the great and enigmatic Kennedy in full. Kennedy is the very silent partner. So silent as to no longer exist. In fact, you are the victim of a wordplay. Meaghan’s, or Meg’s, maiden name was Kennedy and Meaghan Kennedy became Meg & Kennedy.

Be careful what you ask for.

You’ve met Meaghan. Who’s Kennedy?

questions?

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With over 15 years of horticulture experience and a background in visual art, Luc blends technical skill with creative flair. His journey began in his home garden and grew into a career that combines his love for plants, design, and creating spaces where people can spend time together.

At home, he tends a cut flower garden, experimenting with new blooms and enjoying new music as he designs. On holidays, he annoys his family by stopping to admire plants growing along the side of the road. Whether it’s time spent in the garden, at the cottage, or by the pool, being outdoors with family is essential to Luc. This passion drives him to create landscapes where clients can make their own lasting memories.

a landscape designer whose hands are still stained with soil.

meet Luc palmer

RESOLVING DECISIONS BEFORE CONSTRUCTION BEGINS

DESIGN IS WHERE A PROJECT'S SUCCESS
IS TRULY DETERMINED.

At M&K, we are a design-only landscape studio. Our sole focus is creating thoughtful, resolved, and highly detailed outdoor environments before any construction begins. We believe the most successful projects are born from clarity — where vision, function, aesthetics, and budget are carefully explored and aligned in advance.

Rather than designing on the fly during construction, we invest time upfront to resolve the big decisions: spatial planning, circulation, materiality, planting strategy, grading intent, lighting, and architectural integration. This approach removes guesswork, minimizes costly changes, and ensures every element has purpose.

Our role is to translate ideas into a cohesive, build-ready vision. We act as the creative lead, assembling concepts, testing options, and refining details so that when construction starts, everyone is working from a clear, confident roadmap.

CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT

Construction Support is an optional service available once the design phase is complete.

This service provides design continuity throughout construction, ensuring the approved design is interpreted and executed as intended. We act as a design advocate — available to answer contractor questions, review shop drawings or material samples, and provide clarification where needed.

Construction Support does not replace a general contractor or project manager. Instead, it offers an added layer of design oversight to protect the creative vision and assist with aesthetic decision-making as conditions arise on site.

Clients often choose Construction Support for complex projects, custom details, or when working with multiple trades.


What we aim for, what guides us there.

our mission & philosophy

Mission: 
  •  To offer unique, bespoke landscape designs aligned with clients’ lives, tastes and practical needs
  •  To prioritize the customer’s vision and keep them an integral part of the creative process, giving them the freedom to explore ideas and possibilities
Philosophy:
  •  We want our clients to feel in control of the process, to be able to shop our designs to different contractors, while we guide them through quotes and offerings to aid in decisions made
  •  We believe the best landscapes are created through collaboration, where our expertise and our clients’ vision come together to create outdoor spaces that feel personal, thoughtful, and uniquely their own.
We encourage our clients to be involved in the design process. Together, we explore ideas, materials, plants, lighting, structures, and details that push beyond the expected and create spaces that feel uniquely their own.We are constantly expanding our design palette, experimenting with new possibilities and finding creative ways to bring each client’s vision to life We’re trained in colour theory and are pleased to announce that grey isn’t always best.Our transparent design fees mean there are no surprises, allowing our clients to focus on the exciting part: creating a landscape they truly love.

Ultra-habitable outdoor spaces

Our sustainable, ecological design ethic includes native plants where possible. Sustainable also means, Will it fall apart, bleach out, show stains or endure water damage and thus need to be repaired or replaced? We avoid such lesser options.

We’re for those who place high value on high value

We believe in and insist on value for money. Our process includes provision of a full design package including landscape layout, softscape, hardscape, dimensions and areas, lighting and 2D and/or 3D renderings. We remain current with design trends and technologies, enabling the integration of high, low or no tech into your designs.

you're the boss of us

We welcome clients exploring all design opportunities, often undertaking multiple revisions, re-sketching and blending ideas to arrive at the optimum mix, as a cohesive whole.

We like it creative. We like it beautiful. Do you?

Your taste. Our expertise.

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Hamilton, Ontario L8N 2R9

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PHONE: 905-330-1549