Wild Canvas Garden Consultations
Serving the Olympia Washington region.
To schedule a consultation please call: 360-528-0748
Thoughts on the garden.
A garden is a working opportunity for connection with the natural world, a place to collaborate with a process as old as time itself. It is a buffer zone between your cozy and controlled home space and the wild and untamable outer world.
The garden is a place to learn life's lessons, whether intentional or not.
I believe this collaboration to be one of the most enriching opportunities available to the garden tender. One gets to create a place of enrichment and depth, a place where seasons unfold gracefully and your invested thought and care come back to you tenfold.
I have learned so much through the act of tending the natural space in this way, tending to the wild edges of my mind and heart as I tend to the wild edges between untouched nature and cultivated space.
What I can offer.
I hope to bring forth a sense of confidence and curiosity from my clients, and an understanding that this garden journey towards an elevated and enriching space is within reach. Very likely, they have many important elements in their favor already.
I offer direction on how to bring in a diverse ecosystem, one that perpetuates itself for years to come. One that is impactful, calming, and generates new inspiration for those that enjoy it's presence.
Clients will gain understanding of long term garden potential, as well as applicable next steps to achieve their garden dreams.
Clients with older overgrown gardens (my specialty) will gain an understanding on how to potentially restore and curate an older overgrown garden, or make the decisions on what parts to leave behind.
Anyone and everyone will learn the amazing benefits of building a beautiful pollinator privacy hedge, as well as how to establish excellent energetic flow throughout the space, and tips on structural pruning of small trees and shrubs.
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Divine Garden Ratios
Great gardens have a diverse balance. They are formal and informal at the same time. They have older plants and timeless elements such as stone and metal, as well and new seedlings, fresh movement, and fleeting art. There are fast moving parts that usher you through, and places to eddy out and slow down. There might be a patch of lawn that is kept tidy and shapely amongst the wild and carefree flowerbeds. Sometimes things need more layers of complexity, while other times, stripping it down adds the most impact.
Finding your garden's balance is an important goal, yet an always developing and shifting one. I enjoy pursuing these balances knowing there is always more to fine tune.
Perspective
Where do you view your space? Is it along the path from the car to the front door? From your kitchen window?
Wherever these place are, this is a fantastic opportunity to enhance those view points. create the screen to block the neighbors, center the fountain from exactly where you make your morning beverage. If there isn't an established garden yet, take a chair to different places and just sit. notice the sounds and visuals, notice if you feel tucked in and cozy, or restless and distracted. Find the places you like to be and start framing the space around these areas.
Honor your compost.
The plants that have grown and died in your garden should stay there if at all possible. There is a way to bring beauty to decay. Let those that gave you their life, retire gracefully, whether that's in a mound in the corner of the yard, or spread meandering through out the space, added to as life develops. A successful garden keeps as much material within it as possible. This will sometimes call for a reframing of the mind on whats beautiful and good. Give this part of your garden some good creative energy and thought.
