Landscape Design & Installation in Seattle

Covered lounge, fire table & turf lawn

A modern pergola over a paved lounge, edged straight into a turf lawn that stays green all winter, with a plank path running the length of the lot.

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Terraced walls on a sloped lot

Two tiers of block wall with steps between them, turning a bank into planting beds and a level path.

Turf lawn with cedar raised beds

A no-mow lawn for a small city yard, with cedar planters and a paved seating edge.

Flagstone path and river-rock edge

A side yard nobody used, turned into a proper route to the back garden.

Raised planters and terrace

Charcoal block planters framing a stone terrace, photographed the evening it was finished.

Slab walk, block wall and turf on a slope

A run of large-format slabs along the wall line ties the upper slope to the lower lawn — the usual Magnolia problem of a garden split across two levels by the grade.

Patio with steps up to the lawn

Two levels connected properly — paver patio below, steps up to the planted lawn above.

Paver terrace, block wall and turf lawn

A sloping back garden cut into two usable levels — paver terrace at the top, level turf lawn below, and a block wall doing the work between them.

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Paver driveway and terraced front walls

A steep front lot taken back to terraces — a full paver driveway, block walls holding the planting beds off it, and steps up to the door.

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Chequerboard slab patio by the playhouse

Large-format slabs laid as a chequerboard, squaring off the corner of the garden the playhouse stands in.

Side-yard walk behind a bamboo screen

The strip down the side of the house nobody uses, turned into a proper route with a golden bamboo screen for privacy.

Flagstone path with a river-rock edge

A shaded side route in flagstone, edged both sides in river rock so the winter runoff has somewhere to go instead of across the path.

Stone seat wall and raised bed

A stone seat wall doubling as the edge of a raised bed, with steps up to the lawn and a paved terrace for the table.

Curved front wall and planting

A curved wall along the front of the house holding the bank off the drive, with new planting behind it and a paved walk in front.

Capped raised planter on a paver terrace

A raised planter running the length of the terrace, capped in charcoal to pick up the darker banding in the paving.

Covered outdoor kitchen, deck and turf terrace

A back garden built as three connected rooms: a covered kitchen with the grill plumbed in, a warm-toned deck for the table, and a slab terrace stepping up to turf around the fir that was there first.

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Fire-table terrace on a hilltop lot

Magnolia gives up a downtown view if the garden is cut to face it. Slab terrace at the top of the slope for the fire table, charcoal block wall holding the bank behind, turf on the level below.

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Capped block wall holding a raised front bed

A long run of split-face block turning the fall between house and street into a raised bed at standing height, capped flat so the whole length reads as one line.

Paver patio, pond and gazebo deck

The dining patio, the water and the raised deck are one continuous route rather than three features dropped on a lawn — the curve of the patio edge sets up the planted bed and the pond sits inside it.

Brick terrace, rockery and water feature

A whole garden built in one go on a wooded lot: brick terrace at the bottom, stone rockery holding the bank, a waterfall running through it, and a pergola marking the top level.

Block wall holding a planted bed

One course of tan split-face block turns a soft slope into a level bed and a level lawn. The planting sits above the wall instead of sliding down it, which is the entire reason the wall is there.

Basalt rockery above a new bed

Quarried basalt set as a rockery rather than laid as block. It suits a rural lot better, and it lets the planting run into the joints instead of stopping dead at a straight line.

New lawn, new wall, new deck

A whole back garden in one visit: wall in, grade corrected, deck framed, lawn laid onto it. Running it as one job is the reason the three levels agree with each other.

Patio, seat wall and new planting

Pale paver field, stone-faced seat wall, beds planted the same week. The wall does two jobs at once: it holds the grade, and it is where people end up sitting.

Dry creek through a lawn

A dry creek that is a drainage run first and a feature second. It moves roof and slope water across the garden without a pipe and without leaving a wet patch behind.

Raised beds wrapping the house

Stone-faced beds following the footing line, planted the day they were finished. Raising the soil away from the wall is what keeps water off the render.

Covered pavilion with an outdoor kitchen

A gabled pavilion on white posts with stained beams overhead, a stone-faced bar with stools along the house wall, and a paver terrace running out under all of it. Built as one structure rather than a roof added over an existing patio, which is why the posts land on the paving instead of interrupting it.

Wall, steps and a settled garden

Some seasons on from handover. Block wall, stone steps and mulched beds that have grown into one another, which is the only fair moment to judge a planting plan.