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Nestled into a quiet neighborhood, you’ll find a modest ranch style home that has undergone a dramatic facelift and now brimming with lush gardens across the entirety of its corner lot. The clients are art lovers/collectors and desired a low key (relatively low maintenance) property that would serve as their base in the Northwest. They were open to conceptualizing the garden design as a theatrical experience— creating ethereal moments throughout the several distinct garden ‘rooms’ as you move throughout. So began our design ideation:

With low site walls and lush vegetated screening, we crafted an entry sequence that provided a welcomed buffer from the street as you enter into the interior garden rooms. The front garden room lends itself as the stage for five specimen white blooming Crape Myrtles with a mondo grass mosaic below. This room flows into the kitchen garden and the ‘blue room’ with cool-hued plants encircling the intimate dining patio, and contrasting the ‘chartreuse room’ behind the primary bedroom suite. Double doors open out into the private redbud grove and ‘chartreuse room’ with electric green hues and seasonal purple blooms/berry spectacles to compliment. At the garden’s climax, the main living area flows out onto the back patio with the picture box framed cutting garden beyond. With a purple centric color story, the cutting gardens provides the client’s fresh flowers from February into November. The backyard emphasizes texture throughout the subdued woodland border with the layering of oakleaf hydrangea, Japanese forest grass and dogwood shrubs. Along with the ‘live art installation’ of the cutting garden, the windows framing the fireplace are filled with views out onto the ‘Midwinter’s Fire’ dogwood grove which provides a complimentary fiery red field of vision throughout the cold winter months. 

The color themed garden rooms have become even more magical throughout the years, and continues to inspire many conversations of the client’s future gardens ahead. May the show live on!