Amalia Robredo is a landscape designer who works with native coastal plants from La Pasionaria, her chacra (a small rural property) by the sea in José Ignacio, where she has been based since 2002 according to her own presentation. She states that she has studied close to 300 species of herbs and grasses from the Atlantic coast of Maldonado and published two books on the subject; she also teaches landscape design at Universidad ORT.

Her approach, as she describes it, is gardens of native plants that withstand the wind, salt and sand of this coast with little maintenance, something worth knowing if you own a house here and only visit in the southern summer. From La Pasionaria she gives workshops and organises guided visits around the chacra; dates, places and conditions are handled through the contact on this listing, and the portal does not publish them. Who else designs and builds in the area is in the José Ignacio architects, builders and landscaping selection.