Landscaping in Salmon Creek, WA

What Salmon Creek yards actually need

Everything is hitting end of life at the same time

Twenty-five to thirty years is roughly the service life of a builder-grade timber retaining wall, an unsealed concrete walkway and a lawn that was laid on unamended subgrade. We do a lot of like-for-like replacement here, and it is worth spending the extra to build the replacement properly, since the original was almost always built to the minimum.

Shade has caught up with these yards

Trees planted as saplings in 1998 are now large. Lawns that used to be fine are now moss, and the honest answer in a deeply shaded back yard is often not more seed. Depending on how much sun the space still gets, the right fix is a shade-tolerant planting bed, artificial turf, or expanded hardscape rather than fighting a losing battle with grass.

Salmon Creek Greenway and drainage

Lots backing onto the greenway and the creek corridor can sit low and stay wet, and some carry critical-area buffers. Drainage design near the corridor should account for where water is allowed to go, not just where it would be convenient to send it.

Neighborhoods we work in

Salmon Creek Greenway · WSU Vancouver area · Felida border · Mount Vista · Pleasant Highlands · NE 139th corridor