Olympic Fine Gardens

North Seattle · Puget Sound

Gardens kept by the same hands, year after year.

Fine garden maintenance, plant care, and container design for established gardens north of Seattle — led by a fine gardener with more than twenty years in the trade.

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A tended lawn framed by deep mixed borders
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The work

Three things, done properly.

Mowing gets done, leaves get cleared — but that is the beginning of the work, not the whole of it. This is the slow, attentive end of the trade — the pruning, feeding, and shaping that decides what a garden looks like three years from now.

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Garden maintenance

Monthly visits year round — the standard rhythm here, where things grow fast and never quite stop. Pruning, deadheading, edging, weeding, bed refreshment, and an eye on everything else.

  • Structural and renewal pruning
  • Bed thinning and dividing
  • Mulching and seasonal cutbacks
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Plant care

Diagnosis and long-term care for the plants that matter: soil health, watering regimes, feeding, and honest advice about what is thriving, what is sulking, and what has finished its life in your garden.

  • Soil and drainage assessment
  • Pest, disease, and stress diagnosis
  • Feeding and irrigation planning
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Containers, designed & kept

Pots planned for their doorway, their light, and their season — then actually maintained. Replanted several times a year so the entrance to your house is never tired-looking.

  • Seasonal planting schemes
  • Pot, soil, and plant sourcing
  • Plants that carry the garden through winter
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
Lao Tzu
A gardener at work in a Puget Sound garden
The practice

Twenty years of the same question: what does this garden need now?

Olympic Fine Gardens LLC is a small, owner-led practice, and stays small on purpose. The gardeners who walk your property are the ones who prune your hydrangeas, remember where the bulbs are, and notice the year your rhododendrons start to struggle.

Larger projects bring in a trusted crew, but the horticultural judgment behind every visit stays in one place. Two decades of fine gardening have made the work quieter and more particular: fewer clients, longer relationships, and gardens that improve rather than merely stay tidy.

20+

Years in the trade

Monthly

Standard visit rhythm

Year Round

Stewardship, not upkeep

The year

A garden kept on a calendar of its own.

Spring

Cutbacks and feeding, first weeding passes, dividing perennials, and spring containers planted at the door.

Summer

Deadheading, staking, watering strategy through the dry weeks, and thinning what has grown into its neighbor.

Fall

Bulbs in the ground by the end of November, leaf work, soil improvement, and the year's honest assessment of what to change.

Winter

Structural pruning while the bones show, evergreen containers, wet-season drainage, and planning the next season.

A curved border of conifers and peonies meeting mown lawn
Borders
A terracotta container of impatiens, begonia and trailing verbena
Containers
A path edged with layered foliage, heuchera and dwarf conifers
Texture
Coleus and yellow begonias in a terracotta pot
Season by season
“I don’t think any of us that call ourselves true gardeners can say, ‘Hey, we finally have mastered this.’ ”
Dan Hinkley · Windcliff, Indianola, Washington
Contact

Start with a walk around the garden.

During your free estimate, we will go over what you have, what you want from it, and what care it would take. From there we settle on a rhythm — monthly for most gardens, more often where a season demands it.

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