New Client Info

Please read and review our policies before booking a walkthrough to make sure your goals and vision align with ours! While we do offer free consultations, we ask that you do your due diligence and consider our compatibility before we schedule a time to come talk in person.

Herbicide Policy

We do not work in yards that have been treated with herbicides (including Roundup and Weed-n-Feed) in the last 6 months. Not only does it destroy the soil microbiome, we will not expose our employees to cancer causing chemicals. If you just moved to a new place and don’t know the history of yard maintenance we can set up a walkthrough and Anders can identify what's been used.

Lawns

The Garden Dawn does not offer lawn care. We are happy to recommend you a mowing service or we can mow with a mower you keep on site. Usually it does not make sense for our clients to pay our hourly rate for highly trained permaculture employees to mow lawns. We can talk more about this during our walkthrough.

Service Area

We only work in this general area: Crown Hill and Lake Forest Park is the furthest north we service, Capitol Hill and Queen Anne the furthest south. We service clients in Kirkland to the east. Traveling outside this service area is possible for additional expense. We have relationships with wonderful organic gardening companies in South Seattle and the deeper east side if you need a referral for your area.

Our Rates

  • This includes all gardening tasks (like mulching and weeding) unless otherwise a part of the more skilled labor detailed below. We charge $75/hr per person working on site. Typically Anders only has one assistant on site with him per day unless it’s a big installation. We will always communicate labor estimates and pricing for work with you up front.

  • This includes projects like retaining walls and stone pathways. Not only is this skilled labor, hauling stone is hard on the body so we chagre more to do it!

  • Anders has a pruning certification from Edmonds Community College but more importantly, over 5 years of pruning experience. Pruning is a science and an art!

  • We have effectively removed invasive blackberry by hand without spraying any herbicide for many relieved homeowners in the greater Seattle area. There’s no completely avoiding those thorns though and we charge more and pay our employees more to help us deal with it.

  • Typically new clients require an average of one to two days booked for us to clean up weeds, get plants up to date on pruning, and most importantly- rehabilitate the soil so everything can start GROWING! This average depends on the size of the yard and how much it has been let go. See the bilayer topsoil mulching section above for more info on how we build soil health. After this initial clean up you will see a huge difference in plant growth and overall health as well as far fewer weeds coming back.

  • Typically after the initial two day cleanup and soil rehabilitation session is complete we can move to a quarterly maintenance schedule. We have some garden obsessed clients who prefer monthly visits but most simply don’t need it. Our bilayer topsoil mulching method is very effective at reducing weeds and we mostly come back to prune and work on new projects in the long run. Contrast that with traditional landscapers whose methods keep yards reliant on monthly maintenance cycles.

  • We use aerial drone photography to efficiently capture your property in its current state and build a scaled design illustration. Our designs include a traditional design map as well as a list of recommended plants, a written treatment and an installation estimate and timeline. We have a PDF to share with those interested in our design process, shoot us an email and we will send it over to you!