About Us
Māla Designs creates exceptional landscapes that connect people with nature, culture, and a true Sense of Place. We specialize in sustainable, farm-to-table edible gardens for luxury resorts, thoughtfully integrating native Hawaiian and culturally significant plants to celebrate each destination’s heritage, enhance biodiversity, and support environmental stewardship.
Our comprehensive services extend beyond design to include horticultural consulting, project management, and landscape quality assessments, providing clients with integrated support throughout the landscape lifecycle—from concept and implementation to ongoing performance and maintenance. We work closely with each client to understand their vision, operational goals, and site-specific needs, delivering customized solutions that balance beauty, functionality, resilience, and long-term sustainability.
Whether creating chef’s gardens, wellness landscapes, or culturally inspired outdoor environments, Māla Designs brings together expertise, thoughtful planning, and hands-on guidance to ensure every landscape performs as beautifully as it looks.
We believe the most memorable landscapes do more than enhance a property—they tell its story, strengthen its identity, and create lasting experiences rooted in a genuine Sense of Place.
OUR SERVICES
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landscape design
Māla Designs creates sustainable, inspiring landscapes that connect people with nature, culture, and place. From luxury resort edible gardens to native Hawaiian and culturally significant plantings, we blend beauty, functionality, and environmental stewardship to create distinctive outdoor experiences rooted in a true Sense of Place.
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horticulture consulting
Māla Designs provides expert horticultural consulting to help clients create and maintain thriving, sustainable landscapes. From plant selection and the right plant, right place approach to soil health, plant care, and long-term landscape performance, we develop practical, site-specific solutions that enhance beauty, support biodiversity, and respect the unique environmental and cultural character of each property.
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project management + LANDSCAPE QUALITY ASSESSMENTS
Māla Designs provides professional project management and comprehensive landscape quality assessments to protect your investment and ensure lasting results. From coordinating teams, budgets, and timelines to evaluating plant health, maintenance practices, irrigation, and overall landscape performance, we identify opportunities to improve quality, efficiency, sustainability, and long-term value while ensuring your landscape continues to meet the highest standards.
MANAGING DIRECTOR
BERNICE FIELDING
Bernice Fielding is the Managing Director of Māla Designs, providing Landscape Design, Horticultural Consulting, and Project Management services to clients throughout Hawaiʻi, across the United States, and internationally. With more than 30 years of experience in horticulture, landscape design, and project management, Bernice brings a global perspective and a deep understanding of creating meaningful, sustainable landscapes that are both beautiful and environmentally responsible.
Having worked extensively around the world and called Hawaiʻi home for over 16 years, Bernice has dedicated her career to designing landscapes that celebrate the unique character of place while promoting ecological stewardship and the preservation of the ʻāina. Her work integrates native and culturally significant plantings, sustainable design principles, and regenerative practices that strengthen the connection between people, land, and culture.
Bernice's diverse expertise spans luxury resorts, private estates, commercial developments, botanical gardens, and large-scale landscape projects. She is recognized for her ability to blend innovative design, horticultural excellence, and practical project execution to create landscapes that are visually stunning, resilient, and enduring.
Her professional credentials include a Diploma in Horticulture and an International Certification of Qualification in Horticulture, a Certificate in Permaculture Design from Cornell University, designation as an ISA Certified Arborist, Certified Sustainable Sites Professional (SITES AP), Chartered Herbalist, and LEED Green Associate (LEED GA). These qualifications, combined with decades of hands-on experience, enable her to provide clients with comprehensive solutions that balance aesthetics, functionality, sustainability, and long-term success.