The practice
Designing landscapes that grow beauty, resilience, and a sense of place, over time. Site assessment, planting design, and cost estimation for the maritime Northwest.
A landscape should do more than look good. It should orient you.
To land, season, and time. A well-designed landscape makes clear where you are. It respects slope and wind, acknowledges water, and responds to climate and limits.
It supports health not as an idea but as a lived condition, through movement, contact, and continuity.
Pendragon designs landscapes as integrated systems, not collections of features. Beauty matters. So does function. So does longevity. These cannot be separated without cost.
Work begins by listening to the site before deciding what belongs there. Some of these landscapes produce food. Others emphasise drought resilience, quiet retreat, or long-term stewardship. What they share is intention. They are designed to grow more meaningful with time.
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Orientation, structure, and long-term coherence. Food-producing systems often form the backbone, never in isolation.
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Movement, use, and how the landscape answers climate and conditions.
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Function, refuge, and material cycles.
Whether a hillside on Orcas or a terraced yard in Queen Anne: sun exposure, drainage, wind, soil, existing plantings.
Goals, aesthetics, function, long-term vision. What keeps the design answerable to how you actually live.
Texture analysis and water evaluation for fertility, drainage, irrigation. Critical in island microclimates.
Topography, elevation, slope modelling. Warm pockets for grapes, shelter for fruit, water pathways, erosion risk.
Hand-drawing with GIS precision. Orchard blocks, row orientation, food-forest layers, hedgerows, paths, water.
We walk the design together: layout, plant selections, vineyard structure, hardscape.
Urban edible landscapes, courtyard vineyards, city lots and Eastside properties.
Island microclimates, deer pressure, barge freight, and the long view.
How a landscape is made to last. Pruning, species, timing, soil, siting.
What is actually being inherited. The people who planted everything and left.
Someone walks the site with you before anything is drawn. That is the first stage, and it is not optional.
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