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Land Morphology’s immersive landscapes harmonize beauty with resiliency, creating spaces where people feel a profound connection to nature and place.
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“Hartlage’s favourite pairing is Pacific Sun, A dramatic work with yellow and peach rays of curvaceous glass framed in a mound of 7,000 black mondo grass (Ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’ plugs.”
Land Morphology is pleased to announce the promotion of Dylan Crawford to Associate Principal Landscape Architect.
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The home of Land Morphology founding partner Richard Hartlage was recently featured in The New York Times, offering a glimpse into a space that reflects his distinctive creative vision.
Castle Gardens is a multifaceted, multi-purpose new garden at Yew Dell Botanical Gardens, transforming a once utilitarian landscape into a vibrant destination for visitors, members, and the broader community.
Containers require more improvising than normal because you can’t wait for the plants to grow in – they have to be effective immediately and there is limited space to ad lib.
Graphically, the gardens read beautifully from all angles, and make it impossible to forget you are witnessing a living, breathing, evolving piece of art.
As part of Leach Botanical Garden’s dynamic transformation, the upper meadow is being reimagined as the Wandering Woodland—a temporary yet impactful space for families and children to explore, play, and connect with the natural world.
In 2023 and 2024 Land Morphology volunteered our services to create a memorial garden for the Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest (CSNW) near Cle Elum, Washington. The Chimpanzee Memorial Garden plan offers CSNW staff and guests a peaceful place of gathering and reflection.
As landscape architects, we like to believe that our work is about shaping the land—crafting outdoor spaces that are beautiful, meaningful, and ultimately make the world a better place.
With flowers that emerge in early winter and tough evergreen foliage, hellebores are a mainstay of both our public and private gardens, where we always try to design for four seasons of interest. Exquisite on a small scale and sensational on a large scale, they are well-suited for a variety of different settings and styles.
On the Seattle Waterfront, Corylopsis spicata is found growing in the large, raised beds just south of the new aquarium.
Trachelospermum jasminoides, or star jasmine, is a low-maintenance, evergreen vine with fragrant, white flowers. Native to Eastern and Southeastern Asia, it is dependably cold-hardy in the Puget Sound region. It creates a beautiful backdrop when trained up a trellis or over an arbor
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As seen in The New York Times, the front entry of Land Morphology’s founding partner, Richard Hartlage, incorporates steel arbors and granite steps. A serpentine boxwood hedge winds through the front garden.