Christopher Dardarian is a landscape designer

Christopher Dardarian is a landscape designer, horticulture specialist, entrepreneur, and the founder of Stema Gardens, a landscape design/build company. Stema Gardens creates custom residential outdoor spaces throughout Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area, overseeing all aspects of the process from design and planning to construction.

Chris Dardarian brings a mix of professional experience to his work with Stema. Before founding the company in 2021, he worked in construction finance, owned and operated a downtown Toronto restaurant, studied horticulture at Niagara College and lived and worked on farms in Costa Rica and Guatemala. He holds a degree in Economics from Wilfrid Laurier University along with a degree in horticulture from Niagara College.

Today, he applies his accumulated knowledge to the design and construction of custom residential landscapes, built to reflect the way homeowners want to live. Stema Gardens projects incorporate lush gardens, swimming pools, patios, lighting and cabanas with careful attention paid to how each element interacts with the others.