Landscape & Gardens

Transported to Tuscany
Transported to Tuscany
With help from landscape designer Chip Ragen and The John Brenneis Architects, a Seattle lawyer’s heart, home and garden in Mercer Island reflect her Italian heritage
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A New Angle
A New Angle
Landscape designer Scot Eckley gives a Magnolia landscape an award-winning face-lift with clean, straight lines and a family-friendly lounge element
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Hope Springs
Hope Springs
Gardeners can kiss the winter doldrums goodbye with a trip to the Northwest Flower & Garden Show—or by heeding the advice of these local landscape professionals
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An Urban Landscape
An Urban Landscape
With the help of architect David DiMarco, these Capitol Hill residents transformed a once-disorganized urban space into a sprawling rooftop garden with room for vegetables, flowers and art
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A Spectacular Obsession
A Spectacular Obsession
Pamela Claussen’s Bellevue garden abounds with frills, ferns and flowers. Within 14 months, she took an acre of brambles behind her new home and made it into paradise
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Elegant and Effortless
Elegant and Effortless
A serene design palette and sophisticated plantings create the perfect backyard destination in this garden, chosen for the third annual Seattle Homes & Lifestyles’ “First in Home and Design”...
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Life in Abundance
Life in Abundance
Like a lakeside Garden of Eden, the landscape of this Bellevue home serves up fruit and vegetables—and even shade for salmon—but also beauty for its human inhabitants. The garden was designed...
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Some Enchanted Garden
Some Enchanted Garden
A timeless Madison Park landscape captivates two sets of owners. Architect Stuart Silk and his wife, Mary, designed the garden with Diane Szukovathy of read article >
We Have a Winner!
We Have a Winner!
A team of judges from Seattle Homes & Lifestyles chose this garden for the third annual “Best in Residential Garden Design” award at the 2008 Northwest Flower & Garden Show. The show...
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In-City Oasis
In-City Oasis
A well-designed city garden convinces a couple to give up—and not miss—their large suburban property
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Planted Inspiration
Planted Inspiration
Duane Kelly’s virtual reality is both winter antidote and inspiration
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Inspired Landscape
Inspired Landscape
A refuge for both people and wildlife, this copper-infused landscape shines as one of the 2007 Homes of the Year
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Under the Northwest Sun
Under the Northwest Sun
With shades of gold and the fragrance of rosemary, a Bellevue garden is infused with the flavor of Tuscany
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Shedding Season
Shedding Season
Homeowners create personal spaces for backyard storage and private retreat
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Seattle 100: Randy Allworth and Dale Nussbaum
Seattle 100: Randy Allworth and Dale Nussbaum
Randy Allworth and Dale Nussbaum, of Allworth Nussbaum landscaping firm, know a thing or two about plants. Get to know these professionals, and learn their five favorite plants for an amazing...
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