Ideas and Inspirations

When guests come to stay with us, I’m always thinking of favorite locations to take them that everyone will enjoy.  For the young and young at heart, for the walkers and strollers, for those that enjoy being inside and outside – the Chihuly Garden and Glass at the Seattle Center has something that everyone will enjoy.  As an added benefit, there is a wonderful cafe bar as well as a boo

Before there were gardens and flowers and veggies. Before landscape design and school and family. Before Duvall, Peace Corps and the wheat farm. My earliest memories were of horses, farms and animals. As a toddler, I was told that I would beg my Dad to carry me, rain or shine, to feed the horses and let me sit on them. Of course, sitting wasn’t enough and I soon begged him to take me for a ride. W

All clients of Gardens ALIVE Design learn many valuable lessons about creating a healthy, thriving landscape. It is with joy that I’ve repeated myself hundreds of times when I say, “It isn’t just about putting plants in the ground. It is about all the pieces such as soil testing to see how deficient your soil is then adding the organic amendments per that soil test to help create the micro and mac