A Modern Garden Design Sensibility

Landscape designer creates a sophisticated design for her clients

Today ’s pic from Robin Parsons show a beautiful garden she designed for some client in Seattle with her company , Spring Greenworks .

My two clients , Debra and Ramona , are tech leaders in the software industry . They moved to Seattle from California , looking for lot of outdoor entertaining blank space and roaming space for their three prima donna dogs . They require their garden to reflect a modern esthetical . They were also seeking to grow their own constituent green groceries and have a identification number of relaxed entertainment infinite for out - of - Ithiel Town guest .

The highlighting of the garden includes a series of wind steel keep walls that have been strategically placed to fascinate and unmediated rain through the place .

Here ’s a wide view of the brand hold back walls , plant up with drought - patient of plants in a mod , sophisticated color strategy .

Above the brand walls , a series of customs blade planters stand a plethora of seasonal veg and herbs .

The whimsical 5 - foot trellis bean tower stands sentinel in the planters and has a build up - in nest for avian visitant .

As the patio and walls arch around the menage , the patio transitions to a modern dimensional paver excogitation inset with Mexican pebble as well as tufts of bright ground covert . This side of the patio is bordered by a monolithic drift of blueish fescue grass ( Festuca glauca , Zones 4–8 ) on one side and steel planters lushly fill with ‘ Little Lime ’ hydrangeas ( Hydrangea paniculata‘Little Lime ’ zona 3–8 ) and contrasting black and burgundy plantings .

This point of one of the plantings demo how the burgundy foliage used in the planting echoes the color of the sword retaining walls .

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