This beautiful, bountiful garden in Bridle Trails provides sustenance far beyond its veggie beds and fruit trees.

Garden design is about placemaking and problem solving. Sure, plants are in the mix, but a good designer focuses on creating a hospitable space to contain—and enhance—their clients’ lives.

Design brief: Create a playful modern space with a productive kitchen garden, fruit trees, pollinator friendly plantings and plenty of room to romp for three diva canines.

The resulting landscape surrounding a contemporary home in Bridle Trails is filled with warmth and color, resilient plantings and inviting gathering spaces. But first, designer Robin Parsons, owner of Spring Greenworks Landscape Design, had to devise a way to tame a steeply sloped site and deal with compacted acidic soil and drainage issues. [[follow link for more photos of this project]]

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GROW in the Seattle Times