The Grounds Professionals

Our 2024 Flower and Garden Festival "Dreamscapes By The Sea" garden becomes a reality and wins big. We're awarded a Gold Medal, Fine Gardening Magazine's "Beyond Beautiful" award for best garden and Mutual Materials Award for best Hardscape design. I can't express how much I appreciate Wilkie Excavation & Landscaping, Terra Firma Hardscapes and all our wonderful friends who volunteered long hours to bring the vision to life. A special thanks to Bayview Nursery for their work in the Hartley Botanic Glass house to give our live jellyfish the perfect home. Show opens tomorrow and runs through Sunday. Please come visit us and see all the amazing gardens.

The judging is in and our "Healing Garden" just missed taking the Founders Cup (Best of the show) by one of the narrowest margins ever 2 votes, so we settled for 2nd place. We did win 1st place for best use of Hardscape and a Silver medal. We hope you will visit us, find some healing and vote for us for the Peoples choice award at https://www.gardenshow.com/vote-display-gardens
under Terra Firma Hardscapes The Healing Garden... Mind, Body and Spirit.

Thank you to John Stout, Terra Firma Hardscapes for bringing my vision to life, no matter how crazy my ideas were. (I am still awed by his ability to actual create the Crystal water featured I dreamed of.

To all the wonderful friends who volunteered countless hours to make this installation happen.

To the many suppliers who provided us the great materials.

And to my amazing contactor on Whidbey Island, Cody Wilkie, C & C Wilkie Excavating and Landscaping, who provided his entire crew of workers and himself to help us have the man power to actually complete this huge build in 3 days.