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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    · Comment · 8 hours ago
    Le jardinet I contacted the homeowner for you and this is her response; " bought this piece about seven years ago, at City People Garden Store in Madison Park, near the Arboretum in Seattle. BTW, City People Garden Store carry an outstanding collection of Aw Pottery, and unique garden art!
    http://citypeoples.com/gardenstore/ "
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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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    Le jardinet Gardengirlme, see my suggestion re. pots above for fairlite10.
    21 hours ago ·
    Le jardinet Jdmh, talk to a contractor first to ascertain why the driveway is cracking and if what you would like to do is possible.
    21 hours ago ·
    Le jardinet Luciafb, write to Houzz editors and make your request! There are several east coast writers who could probably do this .
    21 hours ago · ·
    Le jardinet Thanks Jay! I'm working off an iPad today ( about to give a talk at Joy Creek Nursery, Oregon so away from home and a proper keyboard!) . Anything to distract the eye from straight lines as you said; pots, curved borders, interesting plants that vary in height, firm and texture etc.
    20 hours ago ·
    Le jardinet Jay, shoot me an email so we can chat more easily! Karen@lejardinetdesigns.com
    10 hours ago ·
    marsia The last driveway is so great! We want our driveway to mostly be a beautiful path to the front door but also be a way for maintenance trucks to get to the rest of the property, so this is perfect. I wish concrete driveways weren't so expensive though. We will be saving up for this for a long time!
    8 hours ago ·
    albion223 I like the gravel driveway for its look,"crunchy" sound as visitors approach, and low cost to install. An upgrade to gravel is a macadam finish, which keeps the gravel in place better than a regular gravel application & still gives you a gravel look.
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    Great Garden Combo: 3 Wonderful Plants for a Deer-Resistant Screen

    Protect your privacy and keep deer at bay with a planting trio that turns a problem garden area into a highlight Full Story »

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    The Lazy Gardener Interesting, crypticartist. But waaay too much work for a lazy gardener : )
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    Jan Haybert I am also interested in purchasing these. Would you mind telling us where they were purchased?
    19 hours ago ·
    Le jardinet I'm sorry but I don't have information on this particular artist. However this style is not unusual so I'm sure you could find a local glass artist doing something similar .
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    Make Your Garden Sparkle With Glass Art

    Bring color, shine and even delightful sounds to your garden with glass sculptures, chimes and gazing spheres Full Story »

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    Tracy Learner I made there 18inch glass blown 12volt lighted orbs for my backyard
    24 hours ago · ·
    cyndibthatsme Glass in the garden has long been a tradition in the South. Bottle Trees are popular in many rural southern gardens. The glass beauties are only a pop, wine, beer, whiskey, oil, ketchup, etc. bottle away.
    20 hours ago · ·
    Suellen Valetta Love all the ideas. I love garden art and the blue glass we've collected.
    19 hours ago · ·
    kurtwknudsen Our customers often hang our stained glass stars outside. They not only add color, but movement as well. They can be found at kurtknudsen.etsy.com
    19 hours ago · ·
    Lynn Gillis this is right up my alley! I make outdoor pictures out of glass...see www.gardenglasswindows.com.....

    I've also used colorful bowling balls in the garden, glass paper weights and all varieties of bottles
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    Le jardinet The locust tree is a fast grower - at least one foot a year, more when it is established. Easy to buy at 8-10'
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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 Jolanta, irregularly create 'gardens' sing just containers on a patio. Enjoy yours!
    8 days ago ·
    Le jardinet The plant details for Rodgersia (above) list it as 5-9 so definite pushing it. Can you protect the crown with a few inches of mulch? Be sure to remove it again before the main growing season. We use sword fern fronds or fallen branches of outlast fir trees to shield some plants from winter rains. I'd say try it!
    8 days ago ·
    Le jardinet Bracken should be a good mulch
    7 days ago ·
    Wendt LA A nice composition of texture and color, thanks for sharing.
    7 days ago · ·
    Debi McCann Has anyone heard of baby Hawaiian wood rose ? I started 2 from seed last year on my patio, they have large leaves and need to go in the yard. No one seems to know much about them. Thank you .
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    Great Design Plant: Rozanne Cranesbill

    For those of us looking for lower-maintenance gardens, it is easy to dismiss this hardy geranium as just another perennial that will need fussing... See Ideabook »

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    tac4 thank you for your rapid reply! this is a beautiful combination, I hope the fleabane is salt tolerant
    8 days ago ·
    Le jardinet Yes it is!
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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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    Le jardinet irhome - happy to introduce you to one that is honestly becoming my #1 and I never thought anything could beat 'Grace'!
    10 days ago · ·
    trilliums Cotinus obovatus (American smoke bush) Is a native plant that is more attractive and non-invasive, Like many native plants it has been overlooked for years in favor of its European cousin C. coggygria, but is now available at many nursery's and online.
    9 days ago · ·
    lonnie HARMS Such great information regarding low maintenence and smoke tree plants..love it.
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    Le jardinet Pulmonaria saccharata 'Mrs. Moon'. Common name is lungwort
    10 days ago ·
    Pierce Landscape Designs Thank you!
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    Le jardinet Bluebells - English bluebells to be exact; Scilla nonscripta.
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