ABOUT

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE WITH EQUAL PARTS VANITY AND TREE HUGGING

Garden path with lush greenery and purple flowers.

Some humanity, please

We design spaces to be built well, but it's just as important for them to be loose, inviting, and have humanity in them. Things can be really nice and not feel too fancy or overbuilt.

Landscape architecture has distanced itself from gardens, which is a connection we would like to repair.

Our goal is to make beautiful places where the flourishing really is mutual. (native) Plant forward, good smelling, insect populated, comfortable, and really engaging to be in.

Person walking on a path in a botanical garden with lush greenery and various plants.

Gardens with feelings

Supernature is a Seattle-based landscape architecture practice, working primarily on the West coast.

We work in residential and public park / garden, and contexts, and are open to project types that defy those categories. We collaborate with clients, architects, consultants, artists, craftspeople, builders, and planners.

We specialize in native meadows and gardens for new or existing projects. We seek to happily layer human needs and wants, nature, beauty, design, art, habitat and ecosystem function into site-specific landscapes. We craft designs to express the best aspects of a site and its use.

Modern wood fence next to a garden pathway with plants and rocks

Beauty is not complicated

The best designs usually do the least. (And they don’t call attention to themselves). We take plant and material inspiration from the direct surroundings of the project site. Good design can and should look many different ways. Site-specific, always. It would be so boring otherwise!

Three people reviewing architectural drawings and landscape designs on a table outdoors, with plants and a lattice chair in the background.

Collaboration is more fun  than being right

We listen to you  (like truly), to understand your wants and needs. We help you understand what is feasible in terms of budget, site and maintenance. We bring lots of ideas to the table but recognize the long-term success  of a project relies on a landscape you can love, use, and maintain. We love to work with clients who want to take part in the garden’s fruition and who want to steward the garden over time. The best gardens are a team effort.

Overgrown garden with various tall grasses, small yellow flowers, and dense green foliage, partially shaded by trees.

Gardens are dynamic

Is landscape architecture an oxymoron? Landscapes are ever changing, and that’s what is so amazing about them. It is not a fixed picture, the way buildings/architecture is often thought of.

“We rarely noticed our yard of lawn and laurel before it was transformed by Supernature into a garden wonderland of perennials, shrubs and grasses. Birds  also appreciate Supernature’s work as we now see many more birds including new species in our garden.”

Ann and Debra, Ravenna Garden