Seattle’s shady gardens offer an opportunity to create calm, layered landscapes filled with texture, fragrance, and ecological value. Here are some of our favorite shade-loving plants for Pacific Northwest gardens.

Some plants look great in the nursery — and then take over the garden, the greenbelt, and the neighbor’s yard. In Seattle, a handful of popular species spread aggressively and crowd out the native plants that local wildlife depends on. Here’s what we’ve learned to leave out of our designs.

Ground cover plants do some of the quietest, most valuable work in a garden — holding soil, feeding pollinators, and filling in the spaces that would otherwise become weeds. In Seattle, the right choices thrive through wet winters and dry summers with very little help from you.

Many outdoor projects begin with inspiration and grow through thoughtful design. A successful backyard transformation takes shape when ideas meet the realities of your home, property, and how you want to live outside in Seattle.

Granite holds a slope. Basalt frames a garden path. Weathered moss rock makes a space feel like it grew there on its own. In the Pacific Northwest, natural stone does more than solve a structural problem — it gives a landscape its character, and it only gets better over time.

Seattle’s shady gardens offer an opportunity to create calm, layered landscapes filled with texture, fragrance, and ecological value. Here are some of our favorite shade-loving plants for Pacific Northwest gardens.

Some plants look great in the nursery — and then take over the garden, the greenbelt, and the neighbor’s yard. In Seattle, a handful of popular species spread aggressively and crowd out the native plants that local wildlife depends on. Here’s what we’ve learned to leave out of our designs.

Ground cover plants do some of the quietest, most valuable work in a garden — holding soil, feeding pollinators, and filling in the spaces that would otherwise become weeds. In Seattle, the right choices thrive through wet winters and dry summers with very little help from you.

Many outdoor projects begin with inspiration and grow through thoughtful design. A successful backyard transformation takes shape when ideas meet the realities of your home, property, and how you want to live outside in Seattle.

Granite holds a slope. Basalt frames a garden path. Weathered moss rock makes a space feel like it grew there on its own. In the Pacific Northwest, natural stone does more than solve a structural problem — it gives a landscape its character, and it only gets better over time.