About Us

At Bell Landscape Architecture Inc., (Bell-la) #LC26000465, we implement interdependent yet related classic design principles and engineering disciplines to create outdoor living spaces of timeless distinction. The founder, Deena Bell Llewellyn, ASLA, Florida Registered LA #0001620, is the creative visionary and driving force behind all design for the firm. Mrs. Bell Llewellyn graduated from the prestigious School of Environment and Design from the University of Georgia, magna cum laude, and began her career in Miami, Florida in 1991. Being a “type A” personality and energetically ambitious, she was professionally licensed in 1996 and became a partner in her firm at a young age.

Deena Bell Llewellyn has over two decades of years of experience in the practice of Landscape Architecture in Florida and the Caribbean. Her staff consists of professionals trained in landscape architecture, design, architecture, engineering, accounting, and building construction.  Employing professionals with diverse professional training and skills allows the firm of Bell-la to provide a potential client with a full scope of services from conceptual design, to detailed construction documents, to building department permitting, to construction management and supervision in a detailed and cohesive manner.

Bell-la’s projects vary greatly in size and scale and consist of residential estates, boutique hotels, commercial buildings, public parks, condominium developments, public schools, and institutional site development projects throughout Florida and the Caribbean. Deena Bell Llewellyn’s extensive education and training in architecture, art, engineering, urban planning, sustainable design, green building, and horticulture are brought together to create built and natural masterpieces that are meticulously custom- designed for the client’s style, intended use, and way of living.

Deena Bell Llewellyn and her team of professionals collaborate with the client from the very beginning to ensure that the client’s dreams and desires are realized in the final product of every detail of every project. Mrs. Bell Llewellyn prides herself on her ability to intently listen to a client, and as a result learn how to design to the exact specifications of the client’s wish list and program to fit the client’s lifestyle before putting pencil to paper. Bell-la collaborates closely and seamlessly with professionals of other disciplines on a project including the Architect, Interior Designer, Engineers, and Client representatives to bring projects to life within established budgets, fluidly, creatively, yet on a strict schedule.

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The professional landscape architectural design scope of services Bell-la offers includes conceptual site masterplanning, tree disposition plans and reports for tree removal or relocation, hardscape layout design and construction detailing of the built elements of a site, site grading design, irrigation design, and landscape lighting design. Deena Bell Llewellyn considers the “hardscape” or architecturally built elements of a site or garden to be the elemental bones of the design. As a result, Bell-la puts a significant amount of thought and detail into the individualized design of driveways, fences, gates, fountains, swimming pools, docks, terraces, pergolas, gazebos, courtyards, and other various site furnishings. To further reinforce the custom detailing of every project, Deena Bell Llewellyn has created her own custom line of outdoor furnishings “Bell-la Furnishings” where she designs and manufactures her own line of planters, benches, fountains, sculptures, tables and other site furnishings specifically conceived for each project so that the individual soul and theme is carried through to the final minute detail like a fingerprint.

Deena Bell Llewellyn collaborates with her husband and in-house Florida licensed and insured building contractor, Mr. Charles A. Llewellyn of ‘Frontier Improvements Inc.’ (CBC1259128) to offer the additional professional services in building department permit expediting, construction management and supervision.  Because of this interdisciplinary collaborative effort, Bell-la is truly a full scope of services firm offering all or any combination of the above -mentioned scope of services any client or developer would require.

Professional Certifications

Small Business Enterprise (SBE)
Micro Business Enterprise (MBE)
Minority / Woman Business Enterprise (M/WBE)