Thistle - Susan Nock Garden Design is based in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and serves the surrounding metro-west Boston area.  We specialize in residential garden design and custom container gardens for homes and businesses.

Susan Nock, owner of Thistle, is an award-winning container garden designer whose work has won Garden Gate Magazine’s 2024 Container Garden Challenge and the “best container gardener” award by the Massachusetts Landscape and Nursery Association in 2022. You can see her work featured in Garden Gate magazine, New England Home magazine, Wellesley Weston Magazine, Gardenista, and other publications listed in the Press section above. She also writes on garden-related topics and has been published by Fine Gardening Magazine. A frequent presenter on container gardening, Susan has been a featured speaker at the New England Flower Show and has presented and taught workshops to the Cape Cod Landscape Association, the Stevens-Coolidge House (Trustees of Reservations), and multiple garden clubs and horticulture organizations.