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Why Outdoor Lighting Is Important
Enjoy your backyard and outdoor spaces all year-round Swimming pools, backyard games, and gardening are all indicative of warmer months and sunshine. But with fire pits, water features, and professionally designed patio and deck spaces, enjoying your backyard in...
5 Ways Water Features Can Enhance Your Landscapes
Water features can truly take your landscaping design to the next level. And when discussing whether or not to add a water feature to a space, tranquility and relaxation are typically listed as the biggest benefit. While it’s certainly true that these features are...
Your Patio Questions, Answered!
Let the Greenhaven Landscape team answer your most-pressing patio questions, so you can have the outdoor space of your dreams!
Three Things to Know About Water Features for Your Yard
Have you been wondering about how to incorporate a water feature into your yard? Let the Greenhaven team help you better understand the best water features for you and your lifestyle! At Greenhaven, we love water features. In our estimation, there are few elements...
There Are Parts of My Lawn Where Grass Won’t Grow. What Should I Do?
There are some areas of your lawn that are so stubborn that no matter what you do, grass just won’t grow. Let the landscaping experts at Greenhaven give you a few imaginative ideas to keep your lawn beautiful all year round.
3 Simple Things You Can Do to Keep Invasive Pests Out of Your Yard
Having a beautifully landscaped yard can bring you so much joy, but pests of all kinds can be a huge nuisance. Here are a few important things you should know about keeping pests out of your yard.
How to Have a Luxurious Summer — In Your Very Own Yard!
Learn how Greenhaven Landscapes is helping homeowners travel to some of the Pacific Northwest’s most beautiful and desirable places this summer (their own backyards!)
What Is Edible Landscaping?
Learn more about this rapidly growing trend in landscaping that is not only dedicated to cultivating an aesthetically pleasing design, but also a great deal of home-grown nutrition for its caregivers. Edible landscaping: What is it? When many people think of gardens,...
Q&A: Practical Answers From Landscape Experts, Pt. 2
At Greenhaven, we want you to be able to make the most of your yard. To us, it’s not a landscape, it’s a dreamscape, no matter what the size or shape of yours might be.
Greenhaven Q&A: Practical Answers From Landscape Experts, Pt. 1
Q: My friends’ and neighbors' gardens are always so impressive. What am I doing wrong with mine? Don’t be too hard on yourself — gardening should be fun! First, we’d advise anyone to not be too hard on themselves when it comes to gardening. It’s all too easy to think...
Four of the Most Exciting — and Sustainable — Landscaping Trends for 2021
One of the most exciting and fulfilling aspects of landscape design is being able to share with our clients and community some of the newer things happening in the world of outdoor design. When we say that no matter what size or shape your yard is that you can have...
The Best Lighting Ideas For your outdoor living space
Don’t turn out the lights! Learn how lighting can take your outdoor living space to the next level, and how there are so many more options out there than you might think, no matter what your style.
Why You Should Consider Synthetic Turf for Your Lawn
We know what you’re thinking. “Artificial turf? NOT. A. CHANCE.” If we were talking about the artificial turf options that were available just a few decades ago, then we would handily agree with you. Since then, synthetic lawn options have become far more...
Why Water Features Are An Essential Part of Your Landscape Design
Learn from the design experts at Greenhaven Landscapes about why you shouldn’t overlook water features in your next yard upgrade — and what some of your best options are!
Three Small But Irresistible Water Feature Ideas for Your Washington Patio
Water features are the perfect addition to your patio and yard. They can add the element of soothing, meditative sounds; a sense of positive, rehabilitative energy; and an elegant focal point to your space. With so many sizes and styles to choose from, you can add a water feature to your patio or yard, no matter how small it might be!
4 of the Best Covered Patio Ideas for Pacific Northwest Homes
It may be stereotypical but we Pacific Northwesterners love the great outdoors — and it’s a well-earned reputation. You’ll find us in fleece sans umbrella, coffee or craft beer in one hand, a dog leash in the other, stepping away from our Subarus walking toward a...
3 Ideas for Beautiful Patio Transformations in Washington State
When you think “patio,” what comes to mind? Is it a gathering space? A place where you’re hosting friends and family? Are you doing some outdoor cooking, having a cold drink, and catching up with friends while kids play in the yard? Or are you picturing a quieter,...
Making your Outdoor Living Space Work in the Winter
We’re not afraid to shout it from the rooftops — Washington state is one of the absolute best places in the world you could possibly live. And we get to! The Pacific Ocean, the Cascade and the Olympic mountain ranges, the biggest cities to the smallest towns, the art,...