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Le jardinet

Le jardinet is a custom container garden design service dedicated to creating visually exciting designs which enhance the architecture of your home and reflect your personal style. Whether you prefer bold and dramatic tropical colors, soft pastels or cool contemporary designs I can devise the perfect plant combinations to suit your tastes and budget.

A natural extension of creating container gardens is to apply that same attention to detail as well as my experience as a certified professional horticulturalist to landscape designs. Specializing in smaller gardens, I can design elegant and functional outdoor living spaces to suit your lifestyle or offer garden consultations to help troubleshoot existing problems or get you started on a new project.

Serving the greater Seattle area, I take pride in combining innovation with extensive horticultural knowledge and artistry to bring you designs which will exceed your expectations

Services Provided:
Container garden and landscape design, specializing in small spaces

Areas Served:
Greater Seattle area

Certification and Awards:
Certified professional horticulturalist

Work published in Fine Gardening magazine, Decks, Patios and Pools and by the Washington State Nursery & Landscape Association
Contact:
Karen Chapman
Type:
Landscape Architects & Designers
Address:
Duvall, Washington,
United States, 98019
Phone:
(425) 765-3574
Website:
www.lejardinetdesigns.com
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    Le jardinet It's a 'Baby Blue' Boulevard cypress
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    Great Garden Combo: 6 Beautiful Plants for a Shady, Wet Site

    Transform a shade garden with moisture-loving golden grasses, textural leaves and a sprinkling of flowers Full Story »
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    Le jardinet Is that the golden Catalpa which gets that big bellabottoms or the species? This garden is in the Seattle area, WA and the golden Catalpa can often be purchased as a multi stemmed shrub or more treelike on a single stout trunk but is much less vigorous than the 'ordinary' one either way.
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    Liquidscapes I thought I would add an image that compliments this piece!!
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    Le jardinet Liquidscapes, I can see shade loving plants - was this also a wet site? Was that why you decided to add hardscape?
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    Great Design Plant: Rozanne Cranesbill

    Try this vigorous scrambling beauty as a ground cover or container plant for captivating garden color all summer long Full Story »
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    Le jardinet Beautiful colors appytrails!

    Diana Biers Interiors, this year they will be lovely and grow to a respectable size. Next year they will be STUNNING,
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    Le jardinet K_sera many of the old cranesbill could behave that way but you'll be OK with Rozanne
    3 days ago ·
    emg609 I'm in Chicago and mine are wonderful performers. I favor the low growing cranesbill. They are a lovely ground cover.
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    Le jardinet sorry - no
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    Annie Thornton Maybe you can find something similar in a product search.

    http://www.houzz.com/photos/products/red-house-numbers
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    Garden Alert: 22 Plants to Keep Away From Pets

    Avoid potential danger by keeping dogs and cats away from these landscaping and houseplant favorites Full Story »
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    cateye Living Exteriors - The ASPCA lists death as a clinical sign for some toxic plants. For others it doesn't. For example, the clinical signs for sago palm are "Vomiting, melena, icterus, increased thirst, hemorrhagic gastroenteritis, bruising, coagulopathy, liver damage, liver failure, death", and for gardenia it lists "Mild vomiting and/or diarrhea, hives." You can see the clnical signs by searching plants at http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/poison-control/

    Here are a couple of lists where the authors tried to list some of the worst offenders:
    http://www.petinsurance.com/healthzone/pet-articles/pet-health-toxins/Pets-and-Toxic-Plants.aspx
    http://www.petco.com/Content/ArticleList/Article/0/-1/316/Deadly-Plants-for-Dogs.aspx
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    michellehouse12 Thanks for this information. My male basset hound loves hosta, and that seems to be about it--and we have many of the plants mentioned here in our yard. I've had to completely fence off the area of my backyard that is growing my hosta plants, otherwise he'll eat them down to the ground.
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    Great Design Plant: Old Fashioned Smoke Bush

    Balance garden color with this shrub's cool blue-green foliage, luminous when backlit and sporting yellow-green flowers in spring Full Story »
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    rebekahhamon I love this bush, but am concerned with how it looks in winter, as we live in a mid-century modern house with largewindows that looks out on our garden. Would this tree do well under large evergreen trees (pine/fir)? Open shade - but it's pretty dry.
    10 days ago ·
    Le jardinet rebekahhamon it wouldn't do well in that situation.
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    5 Easy Plants for a Romantic Entry Garden

    Abundant flowers, a heady fragrance and striking foliage combine for a romantic front-yard garden that's deceptively low maintenance Full Story »
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    Le jardinet Great tips goodbyegirl. Gardening with deer has its challenges but as you say not impossible. I've just bought a giant cardoon to add to another part of my garden hoping the deer won't like the tough leaves.
    12 days ago ·
    Le jardinet Oh and lovely photo!
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    Le jardinet No, these are glass
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    silverbridge Are these grasses & spirea viable in zone 6; in particular the black mondo grass?
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    Le jardinet The path is just loose gravel
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    mjolmjol Can't seem to find original photo that listed plants. I saved photo but still would like plant listing also.
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    Le jardinet An Alluring StrollPlantings and pathway blend easily in this picture-perfect scene. One is naturally drawn to the partially obscured stacked stone sculpture yet also wants to linger on this delightful meandering path.The color palette focuses on shades of purple provided by 'Beni Otake' Japanese maple (Acer palmatum 'Beni Otake') and 'Velvet Cloak' smokebush (Cotinus coggygria 'Velvet Cloak').The chartreuse foliage of 'Mellow Yellow' spirea (Spiraea thunbergii 'Ogon'), 'Golden Spirit' smokebush (Cotinus coggygria 'Golden Spirit') and Bowles' golden sedge (Carex elata 'Aurea') adds high contrast, taking center stage.Rhododendrons add rich magenta accents, while black mondo grass (Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens') adds deeper black notes.Key plants and colors are repeated on alternate sides of the pathway, luring you deeper and deeper into the dappled glade.
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    Le jardinet Only just seen your question silverbridge. Black mondo is hardy in zones 6-10. The spirea in 4-8
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    Le jardinet Sorry but I don't know the make or name of the paint color
    2 weeks ago ·
    Le jardinet It is actually a little bit lighter than it appears here on this overcast day!
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    latwaitis Thank you anyways.
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    Le jardinet Seattle glass artist Jesse Kelly www.jessekellyglass.com
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    Le jardinet It's Crystal Palace.
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    6 Driveway Looks Take Landscapes Along for the Ride

    See how to design a front yard that makes your driveway its own destination Full Story »
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    IN.D.EX Driveways are always important. Like#2. Do not care for #5 Looks like a drained pool.
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    Derviss Design Using exposed aggregate and pebble mosaics , we inlaid a Fibonacci golden means layout in a motorcourt. Something a little different.
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    rosiew Derviss Design, your court is stunning. So glad you shared. Would love to know more about the process/level of difficulty/overall size.
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    Derviss Design Rosiew, the existing asphalt driveway and motor court was demolished and we poured a new exposed aggregate concrete surface. While installing the form boards we cut out the pattern for the swirling arc , the concrete was poured around it. Later after the concrete was cured and exposed we hand laid the pebble mosaic. Photo attached.
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    Derviss Design Standard 3.5 to 4 inches deep of crushed class II, 3/4" - road base - just like most concrete driveways/ paths and patios. The concrete is reinforced with #4 rebar @ 12" on center each way.
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