Welcome to Royal Green Designs, a new landscape design company located in the Central District of Seattle. With a focus on native, pollinator-attracting, edible and perennial plantings, our gardening approach will set you on the path to growing a useful and gorgeous personal landscape. 

If you've been dreaming of a year round tranquil garden that supports the local ecosystem and maybe even provides herbs and food, reach out for a one to one consultation, or to begin a collaborative garden design. Now is the time to plan for spring planting!

 

Together, we'll start by considering what plants bring you joy. Garden design should and can be much more than just the standard fare. Let's design your garden with beauty, use, and the environment in mind. Hydrangeas, sure, but also pots of fresh mint, blueberries, tomatoes…the sky is the limit as to what you can grow. A well-designed and diverse garden supports a variety of plants, insects, animals, and microorganisms, and can bring so much joy to you and those around you.

 

And creating the landscape design is just the beginning. When you become a Royal Green Design client, you'll receive seasonal tips for maintaining your new gardens, as well as invites to workshops and community events. If you know of someone who might be interested in this topic and newsletter, please send it along.

My favorite garden bed is at the base of my driveway. It has a soulful origin story from the original homeowners, and I'm slowly adapting it to provide year round interest, support an enormous variety of pollinators, and provide the herbal and food products that we use the most. For inspiration, here are some additions that I added last spring, and a few new ones for 2025:

Evergreen Huckleberry - A glossy evergreen shrub that provides year round interest, delicious and healthy berries, is water wise, and is a pollinator plant

Caper - An experiment! To grow the caper, caper berry and caper flower from this water-wise Mediterranean shrub

Comfrey - To attract and support pollinators, as an herbal tea and to include in body products

Bearded Iris - As a cut flower, in homage to the original gardener who was an avid iris collector

Artemisia - Also known as wormwood, a dream-inducing herb for teas, soothing baths, and used to make absinthe

Tomatoes - Cherry, heirloom and roma varieties

Agastache - A workhorse, low water need, multi-season pollinator plant that also provides gorgeous flowers

Valerian - One of my favorite and most used medicinal herbs, with a stunning flower

Yarrow - Has a beautiful flower that goes from spring to fall, and nitrogen fixing and dynamic accumulator roots that will help stabilize an erosion prone slope

Walking Stick Hazel - Eventually a mid-sized tree to provide interest along one edge of the garden. Walking stick hazel grows twisty turny branches that can be pruned back and used in dried and fresh flower arrangements and other crafts

Rosemary - I mean, come on, who doesn't use the heck out of this plant, from bees to people? Waterwise too - it's the best.

Milkweed - To attract pollinators and support the monarch butterfly

California Poppy - Beautiful flowers and pollinator support

Fall Aster - An pollinator plant important in the late fall when other summer bloomers have faded

Barberry and Blackberry - The perennial hedge that is pokey as all get out, but man do we love the fruit from both.

There's more, too. (I may be a little obsessed).

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