• To you , that might include a space to sit in the sun, morning, noon and night, January afternoons and August mornings.
• It may include a few shade trees to lower your summer air conditioning bills.
• Perhaps you need a perfectly manicured court for croquet, or a batting cage for your budding ball player.
• You will most likely need pathways to get you from one place to another.
• And probably screening from your next door neighbors, who don't really need a direct view of your hot tub...

...make your property more beautiful.

• The various spaces should relate stylistically and proportionately to your home.
• The plants should be gorgeous, as well as appropriate to the site so they stay healthy.
• The winter garden in the northwest should be every bit as attractive as springtime.
• We can cram your garden full of color, if that's what you love. Or create a soothing subtle native palette with mostly green.
• The hardscape choices (paving, furniture, walls, ornaments, etc.) should be consistent in style with your home and each other.

• If you're a passionate gardener who spends every spare moment with your beloved plants, you may deserve to baby along a huge constantly changing flower border with 8-foot delphiniums and the latest $250 yellow peony.
• You may be a  two income family who intends to hire someone to do the lawn every week and and expects the patio to be party-ready for the weekends.
• You may be ready to retire from a lifetime of mowing a lawn every week, but must have a small flower bed to tend and can't live without fresh tomatoes in the summer.
• Perhaps you want to create a very low-maintenance native northwest understory for the Douglas Firs on your property.

I pride myself on listening carefully, so my clients end up with a landscape that feels like their own personal paradise!

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