Backyard Ecological Oasis

With the last of their children flying the coop this August, our clients were ready to start this new chapter of their lives. Enter in: a cozy outdoor oasis where they could host friends and grow an abundance of fresh vegetables and herbs for home-cooked meals all while creating habitat for a thriving ecosystem. The backyard in its current state was simply a rectangle of weedy lawn, so we were thrilled to have the opportunity to transform this blank slate into a productive urban landscape with different outdoor rooms designed for beauty, functionality, and sustainability. This includes a kitchen garden with two cedar raised beds for annual vegetables, a fire pit area surrounded by a woodland garden, a grassy wildflower meadow, and a rain garden to manage the excess runoff of water from their neighbors and accompanying water issues. It turned out beautifully!