The Green Scene - Award Winning Landscape Design and Construction: About The Green Scene

Behind The Scene

About The Green Scene

The Green Scene's professional staff runs under Scott Cohen's creative and professional expertise. Mr. Cohen carries an active General, Landscape and Pool Contractors license # 340258 B, C-27,C-53.

His office staff includes an Estimator, Graphic Design Specialist, Permit Coordinator, Office and Project Manager, Public Relations Manager, Accountant, and an Illustrator. We work together to coordinate every aspect of your project, from photographing and measuring your property, to creating perspective drawings, creating plans with our AutoCAD computer system, creating proposals and contracts, getting HOA approval (when necessary), and coordinating the phases of construction.

Scott Cohen

President and Supervising Designer

Scott Cohen is the creative force behind The Green Scene, one of the fastest-growing outdoor landscape design and construction firms in the Los Angeles area. Scott’s passion for design began as a boyhood fascination with sculpture, drawing, architecture and gardening. At the age of 15, he started his own successful landscape maintenance business and began to learn many of the innovative landscaping methods he still uses today—more than two decades later— at The Green Scene.

Since Scott took over as President and Supervising Designer in 1995, The Green Scene’s volume of business has increased tenfold with no end in sight. That growth can be attributed to Scott’s unique approach to creating designs that reflect the personalities of the homeowners as well as the attributes of the home and yard. A four-page “Getting-To-Know-You” design questionnaire allows Scott to incorporate the hobbies and interests of the homeowners into his designs to give each a truly personalized project.

An accomplished ceramicist and sculptor, he specializes in custom-designed tiles and sculptures that add imaginative personal touches to the yard—once even body-casting a client to create a life-like mermaid sculpture for her pool. His artistic abilities and years of creating innovative designs have given him the uncanny ability to visualize a dramatic showplace within moments of entering a yard, often beginning his first sketches as his clients discuss their wish list of amenities.

Unlike many other designers, Scott is a licensed contractor in landscape, pool and general construction, enabling him to service every phase of a project. He is constantly pushing the envelope with new construction techniques and developing his management systems to deliver unparalleled workmanship and professionalism to his clients.

A Master’s Of Design Award winner, Scott has been featured on Home and Garden Television’s Landscaper’s Challenge, Designing for the Sexes, and Get Out Way Out! Scott's designs are also regularly showcased in numerous local and national print media, such as Luxury Pools, Pool and Spa News, Architectural West, Hearth and Home, and Signature Pools and Outdoors. He is member of the Contractors Board Industry Expert Program, and continues to lobby for ethical Workers’ Compensation practices in the construction industry.

Scott Cohen is a registered Industry Expert with California State Contractors License Board and is regularly hired by the Oxnard and Azusa offices.

He is nationally recognized as an expert in pool and spa design, concrete patio design and sizing, outdoor fireplace construction, water features, ponds and waterfalls, and general landscape construction. He is published frequently in books, consumer and trade magazines, and with online publishers.

Scott Cohen has experience testifying as an expert on the following subjects:

Pools and Spas: gunite construction, design configuration, plastering, plaster delaminating, beach entries, steel placement, colored plaster, tile work, plumbing, coping, water-proofing, migrating water, drainage, concrete, colored concrete, cracks in concrete, mastic joints, raised bond beams, sheer descents, laminar jets, deck jets, pool covers, lighting and electrical.

Landscaping: Design specifications, plans and take-offs, computer aided design, patio sizing, setbacks, irrigation systems, sprinklers, drainage, French drains, hydro-static relief drains, grading, retaining walls, seat walls, benderboard, planting, roto-tilling, amendment, fertilization, maintenance practice, fine-grading, low-voltage lighting, transformers, lighting wiring, voltage drop, seeding and sod.

Ponds & Waterfalls: Ponds, waterfalls, Aquascape systems, biological filtration, stagnant water, filtration, skimmer placement, plumbing, electrical, pond maintenance, leaks, excessive splash, rock selection, liners, and underlayment.

Hardscape: Patio sizing and placement, concrete, expansive soils, concrete cracks, score joints, stamped concrete finishing, colored concrete, concrete coping, cast concrete, concrete steps, footings, retaining walls, seat walls, pool decking, delaminating, pop-outs, efflorescence, drainage, sheet flow, water intrusion, weep screed, pavers, stucco, pilasters, lighting, conduits, concrete counter-tops, fire-pits, gas plumbing, plan take-offs, accurate dimensions.

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Mary Barnhill

Horticulturist
(AKA The Plant Lady)

Video clip from Theodore episode of Get Out, Way Out!

Mary is a graduate of the UCLA Extension Certificate Program in Gardening and Horticulture, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Design from California State University, Northridge. She works closely with Scott and our clients to create a planting plan for their landscape. At the nursery, she works with clients to select the best plants for their yard. Mary has also been featured with Scott Cohen on HGTV's Get Out, Way Out!