Susan Silva Landscape Design in Orangevale has over 30 years experience designing custom landscapes. Susan Silva was a member of ServiceMagic in its existence, a community service which recommends local contractors and designers on behalf of consumers for licensing, insurances, workmanship and customer service. 

Susan was a frequent contributor of expert advice for the Weekend Warrior column of California Life in California Life's existence. Throughout the years she has written landscape articles for the Sacramento Bee's Home and Garden section and Real Estate sections of the paper. 

Susan has been a featured expert for landscape design concerns and ideas in the LAKE COUNTY REAL ESTATE MAGAZINE and the MENDOCINO REAL ESTATE GUIDE. On occasion, when Susan vacations to the Mendocino area, she enjoys designing landscapes there as well as in the Sacramento area. She gets to work with many additional kinds of lush plantings in very natural settings with the beautiful sounds and breezes from the Pacific Ocean to inspire her designs there and she brings that inspiration back to Sacramento.

​Susan is a frequent contributor to the Folsom Telegraph and the El Dorado Hills Telegraph, writing articles sharing her knowledge on pertinent landscape and garden subjects. Many of her articles can be read in the Landscaping Tips section.