These cute kids were assembled at the edge of the neighbor's lawn with popsicles in hand by the neighbor mom who was glad to have the kids outside and entertained for the few moments while they watched us plant today's garden. I asked the mom for...
I stitched-together a short video of a recent project Nancy designed that we built. It's a very satisfying "before and after" project where it went from overgrown chaos to well-mannered forest garden. It features Nancy's trademark sawn-stone stairs as well as landscape lighting. We use...
This one is a typical example of a customer who contacted us wanting to have a rain garden installed and was receptive to Cindy's design input. The garden lost the homeowner-ish wooden fence, lost the lawn, lost the weed-ridden brick walkway border and lost some...
We've resolved on of the more vexing issues we encounter when it comes to the inspector-contractor interface of a raingarden project. We now use wooden stakes driven into the soil at elevation points of reference to establish an ease-of-verifying benchmarks for the Seattle Public Utilities...