Seattle Garden Design and Consultation for over 20 years. We strive to create a balance between beauty, functionality, and a healthy ecological footprint when creating gardens. Edible gardening is a passion of ours, and we have inspired many clients into growing their own food at home.
We believe that gardens should be inviting and draw people in to linger and enjoy. These gardens feature gathering spaces; gravel courtyards, patios, seating areas. Your garden can be an extension of your house ---- serving as a relaxing place to entertain or relax.
This intimate entry garden boasts thoughtful hardscape elements of Pennsylvania Bluestone pavers and custom privacy panels of wood and steel. The planting palette reflects the client’s green thumb and passion for plants of many textures and colors.
These custom privacy panels echo the style and colors of the home, and offer a hint of screening without feeling closed off from the client’s friendly neighborhood.
This intimate entry garden features bluestone pavers and custom privacy screens. This client is a longtime gardener and plant enthusiast, so the planting pallet reflect this; highlighting Witch Hazel, unique vines, and colorful foliage year round.
This View Ridge backyard offers a spacious lawn and small entertaining areas designed with decking and Pennsylvania Bluestone pavers.
This home on a corner in Hawthorne Hills is laden with drought-tolerant flowering shrubs and perennials. Here — the spring Sunroses and Rockroses shine and later in summer the Sedums, Lavender, and ornamental grasses take the stage.
In full sun, creeping thyme will happily fill every crevass in an informal flagstone path, creating a soft and fragrant effect. In June, this path is ablaze in tiny pink blossoms.
Polinators and edibles abound in this Ravenna entry garden. This NE Seattle entry garden features two custom steel planters for edible gardening year round. The landscape plan is also rich with edibles, including strawberry as ground cover, herbs, and two varieties of currant. The planting pallet includes succulents, grass textures, and native trees for privacy.
This large frontyard garden was transformed from an entire lawn to a textural rain garden and gravel courtyard garden. Blueberry bushes border the courtyard for easy grazing by the homeowners grandchildren.
Simple lines and ornamental grasses create a gathering place for this home in the Sand Point neighborhood. Corten steel fencing creates privacy for this entry courtyard.
This unique property was both a pleasure and a challenge to work on, given its unusual shape. Poised at the intersection of 3 major streets, the site possessed sharp angles and lots of elevation changes to consider. The hardscpe design includes elegant custom Ipe decking and privacy panels. We repurposed the original deco fence panels as accents to the fencing. The plantings are simple and colorful, offering a pleasing experiece for this busy walking route for local residents.
The original deco fence panels were powder coated black to restore them into a lasting element in this garden.
Over time, a rare Golden Jasmine Vine will gracefully weave through this unique panel built to soften the brick chimney on the east side of the house.
Edible gardening is incredibly rewarding. We might have to say the core of our garden inspiration comes from growing food for our families and community. The steel planters featured here are low maintenance and designed to your specific space. We enjoy adding edibles to established landscape beds whenever the situation allows. Blueberry bushes, fruit trees, fruit and berry vines, and a few examples of edible plants that can easily be combined within your ornamental planting beds.
Custom steel boxes define this entry edible garden. Berries and herbs are mixed in with ornamental landscape plants to create a productive and beautiful landscape.
Sometimes lush and whimsy is what you need. This backyard patio has a grape arbor as ceiling, concrete walls are softened with brick caps, and local art adorns the concrete wall. Herbs are tucked into containers and blueberry bushes blend in with ornamental landscaping.
Rain Gardens are an environmentally sound choice for your garden. To demystify the concept: imagine the rainfall from your roof is captured and directed to an area of your property, where it disperses naturally into the ground through lush plantings. Through that process, the water is cleansed and filtered, thereby lessening the impact of contaminated water in our local Puget Sound. If this sounds interesting to you, Trillium Design can help you design and create an eco-friendly garden that will manage your storm water run-off, thereby minimizing your impact on the Puget Sound and enhancing your overall landscape. To make it more enticing, the City of Seattle offers rebates to build rain gardens and cisterns through the Rainwise Program. Click here to see if you are eligible for a rebate. Please note that we are no longer a “Preferred Contractor” within the Rainwise Program but can help you find a suitable subcontractor who is.
Drought tolerant grasses and shrubs create a lush replacement for what was once a small lawn in this frontyard garden. This rain garden collects and filters water from the entire roof of this NE Seattle home.
Rain gardens are planted densely with a variety of moisture-loving plants that tolerate wet conditions in the fall and winter, and dry in the summer.
Evergreen grasses carry this full sun rain garden through the winter, when the perennials are dormant. Care is taken to ensure our rain gardens have interest in every season. Red twig dogwood shrubs, a staple of many rain gardens show their red stems in winter when the plant is dormant.
Drought-tolerant perennials such as Lavender, Echinacea, and hardy Geranium add color to this full sun rain garden.
This large frontyard was transformed from full lawn to a rain garden with edibles and herbs.
Plant combinations can create color, drama, and all-season interest in the garden. We work closely with you to create a plant pallet that suits the conditions of your particular site, as well as your design aesthetics.
In spring, the Fire Glow Japanese Maple lights up with hot pink samaras — their dainty seed pods.
These three groundcovers co-exist perfectly and complement each other as well. The Lavender here is photo bombing the trio!
The Japanese Forest Grass has such graceful and bright foliage, it perks up even the darkest of shady corners.
Containers are a fun way to add color or interest to a garden in a small way. We enjoy creating containers that offer color and interest thoughout the year.
