Edmonds

1. A contemporary Mediterranean-inspired garden of a designer who has been creating drought-tolerant, low-maintenance and environmentally-friendly gardens for the past thirty years.

2. A home garden of 51 years, lovingly created from the total neglect faced on arrival. Now, after retirement years spent taking classes at Edmonds College and volunteering at the Miller Garden, the owner has created an inviting and mature tapestry-like landscape.

Shoreline/Innis Arden

3. The designer/owner transformed a long-neglected, overgrown yard into a series of garden rooms, including a drought-tolerant, sunny front garden, a cutting garden and a meditation garden.

Carkeek Park

4. A mesmerizing and expansive woodland garden overlooking Carkeek Park and the Puget Sound, with works by local artists, a vegetable garden to die for and its latest addition: a crevice garden.

North Beach

5. Set above Golden Gardens Park, this mature woodland garden celebrates over 45 years of layered design and horticultural artistry. Distinctive plants, canopy trees and curated containers bring together texture, structure and seasonal nuance in a serene mixed-shade setting.

6. A contemporary garden whose owners operate a full-service garden design and installation firm. Together, they have been evolving their own home garden over the last nine years.

North Green Lake

7. The garden of a practicing visual artist and former perennial plant buyer at a local garden center. He brings a painterly eye to plant combinations and spatial design, along with plant selection expertise.

North Seattle/Maple Leaf

8. A “collector’s cramscaped garden” is how the owner, a retired Kubota Garden Senior Gardener, describes the current iteration of his 48-year-old garden filled with hundreds of conifers, more than 75 deciduous trees and over 50 tons of stone walls and walkways.