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Creating Spaces: A Landscape Architect’s Approach to Garden Design
On August 7, 2024, Seattle Landscape Architect Brooks Kolb gave a lecture on “Creating Spaces: A Landscape Architect’s Approach to Garden Design” at the Edmonds In Bloom Garden Celebration in Edmonds, WA. Starting with a brief history of garden design, Brooks went on to show and describe some of the quirky illustrations that celebrated twentieth-century
The Art of Garden Lighting: Enhancing Your Landscape’s Beauty After Dark
By Teri Silver for Seattle Landscape Architect Brooks Kolb Garden and landscape lighting gives your Seattle home a sensual after-dark glow, enhancing the overall beauty of the property. Lighting up the garden and landscaping is more than placing a fixture here and there. Before heading to the home improvement store, plan your project by first
Creating a Beautiful and Productive Edible Landscape: Tips and Ideas – By Alice Robertson for Seattle Landscape Architect Brooks Kolb
Photo by Brooks Kolb Edible landscaping is an exciting concept that combines the aesthetic beauty of a traditional garden with the functional benefits of a home-grown food source. Imagine stepping out into your yard and plucking fresh herbs, fruits, and vegetables
How to Bring Your Landscape Design to Life
By Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp for Seattle Landscape Architect Brooks Kolb Source A landscape that is truly alive teems with birds, bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. You can stand by the plants and see insects and birds flit from plant to plant, chomping on seeds and slurping up
A Windermere Garden
Designed for art-loving clients with young children, this landscape in Seattle’s Windermere neighborhood features a broad lawn overlooking Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountains, surrounded by colorful perennial borders. After demolishing a covered swimming pool, the site was filled several feet, minimizing the number of steps down from the main floor to the garden level.
Recent Work by Seattle Landscape Architect Brooks Kolb: a Windermere Garden
Recent Work by Seattle Landscape Architect Brooks Kolb: a Windermere Garden
Recent Work by Seattle Landscape Architect Brooks Kolb: a Windermere Garden
Designed for art-loving clients with young children, this landscape in Seattle’s Windermere neighborhood features a broad lawn overlooking Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountains, surrounded by colorful perennial borders. After demolishing a covered swimming pool, the site was filled several feet, minimizing the number of steps down from the main floor to the garden level.
Ensure Backyard Safety With These Tips
by Carrie Spencer for Seattle Landscape Architect Brooks Kolb When warmer weather starts to arrive, many of us look forward to recreation and relaxation in our yards. Backyards, patios, and play areas all offer opportunities to connect with nature and expand our homes outdoors. When preparing for the warmer weather, Good Housekeeping Magazine notes that
Restoring a Salmon Stream
For a client with a wooded, shoreline property in the village of Holly on Hood Canal, Seattle Landscape Architect Brooks Kolb generated a landscape master plan that included restoring a salmon stream. While salmon had been entering the creek for several years on their journey to spawn, they were blocked by a culvert under a
A Labyrinth for Walking Meditation
In 2014, Seattle landscape architect Brooks Kolb received an intriguing design challenge from a client in Bellevue, Washington: to incorporate a labyrinth in her garden for her daily walking meditation practice. While the history of labyrinths is somewhat obscure, as graphic images or symbols they date back to clay tablets from the ancient world. One
