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We continually strive to create outdoor living spaces and landscape systems that enhance the planet and the lives of those who use them.

This is our touchstone for interacting with you. It is how we apply our design-driven practice to meet your needs. It is where we come back in order to create your ideal outdoor living spaces to enhance your life. The places to celebrate, plan, reflect, to relax.

Landscape design is an amalgam of vision, art, engineering, social sciences, and emotion.

As designers, we see what is not yet there.

This was no ordinary sandbox. 10’x10’ square, 2’ deep resting safely near the edge of a 4’ drop and tucked under a 40-foot elm tree. This is the first place I found to be fully in charge of my destiny and deeply engaged in what I would later come to know as Flow State.

Growing up the youngest of 9 children, gardening by my mother’s side, at age 6, I began questioning her use of manure and Miracle Grow. The manure made sense to me but the bluish white crumbly powder assaulted my senses and spreading poison beneath my food was counterintuitive.

It is finally here! Version 1 of the Landscape Carbon Calculator was released on January 5th 2021 and we can now predict the carbon impact of your project and how long it will take for your plants to sequester the carbon emitted to build your landscape!

Before the pandemic, we used to spend time with close friends two to three days a week. I didn’t realize how much I was missing that until my dear friend and I decided to make something happen after 8 months of not seeing each other.

Elder Creek is proud to be included on a ground-breaking model for providing a high quality, temporary, living environment for survivors of the Sonoma County Fires.

Our final blog in the Beyond Beautiful series touches on what we can do to build habitat for beneficial insects and other garden allies.

Plants are Innately Magnificent…we know that plants are naturally designed to pull carbon from the atmosphere and use it for creating and repairing tissue. But in addition to this, they also pump carbon into the soil through root and other various exudations! While this fortifying cycle protects the plants from disease, it can also help our climate issues by sequestering that much-needed carbon to help with global warming.

beyond low water use, what services is your landscape providing? “Less Bad” ≠ Good… Instead of just being “less bad”, can we imagine creating our landscapes to provide positive services to the greater environment while still serving all our needs?