Sustainable garden management, design and exploration
It’s been ten years since I moved to the Seattle area and started Native Root Designs. I had a diverse background in horticulture and I was eager to push my design and landscaping experiences to the next level. Through a friend and co-worker at the small retail nursery in Santa Cruz, CA,The Garden Company, I [...]
Here’s a write up from the Garden Show on our up and coming garden display “In a Garden Far, Far Away…” http://www.gardenshowblog.com/beginning-gardeners/a-garden-far-away-and-close-to-home/ Janet does a great job capturing the spirit of the gardens that are going to be built in just a few days now. I recommend scanning through her blog posts on all the [...]
Twenty-three days until we begin the move-in process for the 2013 Northwest Flower and Garden Show. Our garden, “In a Garden Far, Far Away…An Edible Forest Sanctuary” is coming along great. As I watch the first (IV) Star Wars movie with my four year-old daughter, I am thoroughly excited to bring a piece of the [...]
I have slowly begun to catch up on the growing pile of work that accumulated during the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. It doesn’t take long as a small business owner to lose ground. I’m quite sure the Garden Show was worth the work and distraction. Luckily I am still a small enough business that [...]
For the Northwest Flower and Garden Show I created two pallets to be hung as green walls from the timber frame arbor we were using. My intention with the Pallet Gardens was to create a contemporary grotto under the arbor. I wanted the feeling of lush enclosing walls while keeping up some of the sharp [...]
Drew Daily, Plum Projects, LLC, in Seattle is making our timber frame arbor! I am very excited to see his work coming along. As we still have a five days until move in I am comfortable knowing he’s left plenty of time for constructing it… He made an actual scale model with all of the [...]
Here we go! I just returned from three days of landscape industry seminars, board meetings and exciting conversations. Everyone at WSNLA and the Garden Show seem to be very excited about this years garden. I have reached a point of saturation. I simply need to do everything on my many lists and wait until the [...]
Less than a month before the show and here’s where we stand!! Below are some of the projects underway for “Winter’s Come and Gone- A Lullaby”. A garden I am designing/creating for the Washington State Nursery and Landscape Association at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show 2012. Mosaic by Seattle Mosaic Arts. It measures [...]
Winter’s Come and Gone- A Lullaby With the help of Kirsten Lints, Gardens Alive Design, Megan Pulkkinen, Megan Pulkkinen Landscape Design, and the extremely generous contributions from a handful of local nurseries, we are getting the plants collected and stowed away for the Northwest Flower and Garden Show (taking place February 8-12, 2012). We have [...]
