This is the latest landscape design to be finished for a small garden condo in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. This was a complete renovation of a 50-year old garden that needed a new look and lots of soil amendments to get the plants that were going to stay back to what they could be. I decided to keep the gardenias, the three different kinds of Choisya, filled out the Nandina, and added blues and blacks (Idaho Blue Fescue & Black Mondo Grass) to enhance the existing plants. One color section and one cool section were highlighted to be seen from the dining and living rooms. A corner Zen Garden was revived to be seen from the den, with panels put on the fenced area to contain the view; new stone edging was added to visually hold the white sand. A moss garden was created for yet more serenity. And, a cobblestone area under an existing Magnolia finished it all off nicely. I pruned a lot of the plants, including two very old and weary fatsias, down to just above the ground, so that they could come up with all new foliage. This was a very rewarding project that took about a month and a half to design and implement.
