A Windermere Garden
Located on a unique lot having two street frontages, with its front door facing a main road and its garage facing an adjoining cul-de-sac, this Windermere residence has two driveways...
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Three Laurelhurst Gardens
Located within a few short blocks of each other in Laurelhurst and completed in 2005-2006, these three small and fairly level front gardens by Seattle landscape architect Brooks Kolb have two major programmatic elements in common; otherwise, they could not be more different. What all three have in common is that they reclaim the front yard for private and intimate family living and they each incorporate a small water feature. At each site, the back yard was less suitable for family use, but for different reasons. Click on the following links for more details.
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A Finn Hill Meadows Garden - Kirkland, Washington
High on the slopes above Kirkland's Juanita Bay lies a unique neighborhood of circular lots bordered by a zigzag pattern of split-rail fences: Finn Hill Meadows, which was originally platted by Architect Paul Kirk in the 1950's. In the spaces between the lots, meadow grasses in commonly-owned horse pasture and orchard grow...
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A Pike's Peak Garden - Bellevue, Washington
Located on a three-acre, sloping site bordered by tall Lombardy Poplar trees, this large estate in the Pike's Peak neighborhood of Bellevue takes advantage of its forested, nearly rural surroundings. A sense of refuge and privacy provides a haven for...
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A Sandpoint Country Club Garden - Seattle, Washington
Located on the western edge of the Sandpoint Country Club in Seattle, this low, ranch-style home encompasses two distinctly different landscapes linked visually by a see-through entry hall: a front garden facing a residential street and a back garden opening onto the expansive lawns...
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A Broadmoor Garden
Composed of a tranquil pond with water lilies and a gurgling fountain, backed by a dense semi-circular Yew hedge, this formal English garden provides a pleasing vista from a prominent living room window...
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North Broadmoor Garden
Seattle Landscape Architect Brooks Kolb was hired by the owner to transform an automobile-dominated front yard into a usable, pedestrian-friendly entry garden and to create private terraces for a formal water feature and hot tub in the back...
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A Denny Blaine Garden - Seattle, Washington
Inspired by the formal gardens of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, this "L"-shaped garden on a hilly site in the Denny Blaine neighborhood takes advantage of...
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Fountains & Pools
What can enhance the garden experience more than the look and sound of water? If you have your heart set on including a water feature in your garden...
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A Blue Ridge Garden
This garden in the Blue Ridge neighborhood of northwest Seattle is really two distinctly different gardens. Adjoining a classic Italianate loggia and the simple brick façade of the house, the front garden is an elegant...
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An East Lake Sammamish Garden
Located on a sizable hilly acreage high above Lake Sammamish, this front courtyard garden centers on a formal circular autocourt and features a stunning waterfall built into a steep slope. Since the back side of the house embraces a generous veranda overlooking panoramic views...
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Current Work
In 2007 Brooks finished a large back garden in Hunts Point and two smaller back gardens in the Roanoke neighborhood of Seattle, among several built projects. In Seattle’s Meadowbrook neighborhood, Brooks completed the back garden of a project for which he had previously designed the front landscape. This garden features a Japanese-style dry rock stream bed with the sounds of water courteously supplied by the nearby (but invisible) Thornton Creek. Brooks also finished work on a garden for a brick Tudor-style house near the Seattle Yacht Club. This urban garden boasts a large deck spanning over an existing bunker-style sloping driveway. Currently, Brooks is at work on many gardens including one in the “Fletcher’s Village” neighborhood, near North Beach. In the coming months, check back for images of these new gardens as the plants begin to take root and grow!
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