we design gardens that nurture life

A person walking their dog along a wooden pathway in an urban park during sunset, with tall buildings and trees in the background.

Concrete steps with grass on top, surrounded by green plants and pink flowering bushes in a landscaped garden.

A landscaped outdoor seating area with six chairs arranged around a fire pit, surrounded by lush greenery and flowering bushes, overlooking a body of water with distant mountains under a clear sky.

Colorful garden with a variety of blooming flowers near a water body, illuminated by sunlight.

An aerial view of a house with solar panels on the roof, surrounded by greenery, a driveway, a pond, and trees.

Creating memorable and
inspirational landscapes

Our immersive landscapes harmonize beauty with resiliency, creating spaces where people feel a profound connection to nature and place.

Land Morphology, founded in 2013, is a landscape architecture firm dedicated to creating memorable, sustainable, and culturally resonant gardens. With deep expertise in plants, built environments, and long-term maintenance strategies, we design landscapes that enhance life and combine the crafts of landscape architecture and horticulture.

Our work includes private gardens and estates, botanic and public gardens, parks, civic and academic campuses, urban infill projects, and urban design and land use planning.

Featuring

Richard’s home and Garden as seen in The New York Times

Colorful living room with bright blue walls, pink curtains, and various patterned furniture including a sofa, armchair, and swivel chair. Green door, plants, artwork, and decorative items are visible.

A cozy bedroom with yellow walls and wooden flooring, featuring framed art and photographs on the walls, a window with patterned curtains, a green chair, a small green table with plant pots, stacked books, a bed with a colorful floral blanket, a white marble-top side table with books, a lamp, flowers, and decorative items.

Additional photos may be seen here

Link to The New York Times article here

A colorful living room with a bed on the right, decorated with yellow pillows and a green round pillow. The wall behind the bed has abstract artwork and a mounted chicken sculpture. To the left, there's a small side table with a yellow lampshade, a checkered cabinet with decorative objects, and a large blue painting with white flowers. The room has a mixture of bright colors and eclectic decor, with doorways leading to other rooms.

Planting a Garden

There are so many components that come together to make a garden. There are the initial ideas and styles that cater to the garden owner’s preferences and functional requirements; the spatial arrangement of the available area; and the crafting of spaces through architectural elements such as wood, metal, concrete, stone, polycarbonates, and a wide variety of historical and newly developed materials. Above all, it is the inherent dynamic qualities of plants – the living, ever-changing aspect of garden spaces – that distinguishes gardens from more static structures like houses…

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A Sense of Adventure

Image of serpentine boxwood at Richard Hartlage's garden.

Link to Lorene Edwards Forkner’s Seattle Times article about Richard’s Garden.

Castle Gardens

Read more about the new Castle Gardens at Yew Botanical Garden.