Ideas and Inspirations

Hello Gardens ALIVE Design Clients and Friends, As you may know, we love our property in rural Duvall. We have a large yard, of course! And a bursting veggie garden along with 4 acres of fenced pasture that used to house my 3 horses that I had since I was 13. As animals do, they got old and sadly one by one I had to say goodbye to my beloved Buckster, Chestnut and Tilly. A couple of years ago, our

Reasons to create an improved landscape differ from person to person. Sometimes, the landscape is simply there to be beautiful and admired by others. Houses left to stand in an unfinished yard can seem stoic with nothing to detract from squareness and predictable lines. In a neighborhood of closely spaced houses, overlooked landscape improvements can mean an eyesore for others. “It isn’t fair,” sa

Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center, located at 18675 NE 106 th Street, Redmond, WA, has finished compost available for use by the community. The compost consists of horse manure and wood shavings that have been processed in Little Bit’s commercial composting machine. The result is a nice, dry product that is relatively free from weed seeds. Little Bit’s horses do not graze in pastures and the or