Shoebotham Residence
Seattle, Washington
The problem:
This client wanted her garden redone because she felt it didn't
have "any rhyme or reason" to it. She had a large collection of
plant material but it wasn't organized in a way that pleased her.
She also needed better access into the garden. It was fenced on
three sides. The fourth side (along the patio) was a rockery planted
so solidly that the only way into the garden was a narrow path at
one end. She also felt that the look of their small garden pond
could be improved.
What
we did:
We improved
the traffic flow through the garden by removing the fence along
both sides of the driveway and by adding two arbors: one from the
driveway into the main garden and another at the edge of the patio
with a set of stone steps leading into the garden. We moved plants
out of the center of the rockery to make room for the steps. We
moved a lot of the perennials that looked lost by themselves in
the garden and put them into large containers on the patio. In the
main garden, we arranged a combination of new and existing small
trees, shrubs and grasses to create a garden with color and interest
throughout the year. We rearranged the stone and plantings around
the pond to make it blend more naturally into the landscape. The
client has also built a deck off the second story of the house which
looks down into the garden.
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