Services

 

Stone Work Consulting

This service allows those that want to do their own stonework a bit of guidence and professional advice. For an hourly or full project fee, we will help you asses your site, choose a stone material, teach essential techniques necessary to build your project, and advise you through the process.
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Landscape Design

We enjoy designing landscape solutions that suit our client's needs. Wether it is hardscaping, plantings, or both we focus on the sustainability of the desires of our client to create landscape that is timeless and low-maintanance.
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Northwest Plantings

We enjoy planting Native species as much as possible. We plant with both sustainability and the clients long term goals in mind.
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Sustainable Practices

This boils down to simply not forcing an environment to do something it cannot sustain. For example... asking a wet, shady area with poor soil to sustain a healthy lawn. It will always be wet, struggling to compete with weeds better suited to the environment, laden with moss, and a burden. To force the situation would require a large cost of time and money for the home owner that ultimately is not sustainable. Solutions are endless, beautiful, additive to the landscape, and sustainable.... dig a curtain drain, and build a beautiful dry creek bed to pick up excess water and channel it away. Add a raised patio area and plant species that thrive in the environment.
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Dry Stack Retaining Walls

I am a certified Dry Stone Mason through the Dry Stone Conservancy out of Kentucky. I have completed training to build retaining walls to 4' in height using natural stone. Our walls last and we have no problem building in any stone of your choice.
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Dry Stack Fences

I am a certified Dry Stone Mason through the Dry Stone Conservancy out of Kentucky. I have completed training to build fences to 4' in height. These are more of a anomaly here in the North West, yet their function and presence here in the landscape are both defining and timeless. We have no problem building natural stone fences in any material of your choice.
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Walkways & Patios

Our patios are built to last with proper drainage and solid foundations. Each stone is at least 1 1/2 inches thick, and hand worked to fit the space with consistent spacing. The spaces between the stones can be filled with ground covers, or fine crushed rocks to allow water to drain.
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Stairs & Benches

Stairs can be built out of just about any shape of stone, thick or thin. Depending on the traffic flow and client's needs, determines the rise and run of each stair. Benches are a great detail to incorporate in any garden. They can be built with any combination of materials.
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We are a landscaping and hardscaping company that specializes in designing, sculpting, and collaborating with clients to create spaces that utilize natural stone and native plantings. We build stairs, rockeries, patios, dry stack fences and retaining walls. From residential to commercial environments, we strive for a harmonious relationship between nature, structure, and humankind.

Borrowed Ground looks at each project with sustainability in mind. By designing within the site conditions and utilizing long term solutions we can create an environment that minimizes costs for maintenance, reduces labor, and ultimately supports a healthier landscape. With consideration to planning, design, and implementation we can help you realize an outdoor space that is functional, aesthetically pleasing, cost effective, and environmentally appropriate.

 

Links

Dry Stone Walling Associations
Dry Stone Conservancy *
Dry Stone Walling Assoc. UK
Canadian Dry Stone Walling Assoc.

Community
Ironton Studios
The Stone Foundation *

Tools
Trow & Holden
Rhino Tools

Stone Suppliers
Scrivanich Natural Stone

Native Nurseries
Fourth Corner Nursery Native Plants

Other
Wash. Assoc. of Landscape Professionals *
Sustainable Connections *
Wash. State Univ. Master Gardeners Library

* Denotes professional membership