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We are proud to announce that we received a Merit Award from the WASLA for our Shore Blocks project.
Architizer ranks Land Morphology as the number 18 design firm in Seattle and the only landscape architecture firm listed in this year's ranking.
Lorene Edwards Forkner writes about Richard’s favorite spring plantings in her March 26, 2025 column in the Seattle Times’ Pacific NW Magazine.
“Hartlage has long used his personal garden, executed in bold color and with a playful sense of scale, for trialing plants and building materials.”

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As part of Leach Botanical Garden’s dynamic transformation, the upper meadow is being reimagined as the Wandering Woodland—a temporary yet impactful space for families and children to explore, play, and connect with the natural world.
In 2023 and 2024 land morphology volunteered our services to create a memorial garden for the Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest (CSNW) near Cle Elum, Washington. The Chimpanzee Memorial Garden plan offers CSNW staff and guests a peaceful place of gathering and reflection.
As landscape architects, we like to believe that our work is about shaping the land—crafting outdoor spaces that are beautiful, meaningful, and ultimately make the world a better place.
With flowers that emerge in early winter and tough evergreen foliage, hellebores are a mainstay of both our public and private gardens, where we always try to design for four seasons of interest. Exquisite on a small scale and sensational on a large scale, they are well-suited for a variety of different settings and styles.
On the Seattle Waterfront, Corylopsis spicata is found growing in the large, raised beds just south of the new aquarium.
Trachelospermum jasminoides, or star jasmine, is a low-maintenance, evergreen vine with fragrant, white flowers. Native to Eastern and Southeastern Asia, it is dependably cold-hardy in the Puget Sound region. It creates a beautiful backdrop when trained up a trellis or over an arbor
Models are a way to provide visuals for the client to see the spatial relationships, scale and the overall aesthetic of a project.
Our boxwood of choice is Korean boxwood, Buxus sinica var. insularis ‘Wintergreen’ or Wintergreen boxwood, a variety that performs well and withstands blight.
This gorgeous mid-spring bloom, also known as the Camas lily or Wild Hyacinth, is in the Asparagus family, Asparagaceae.
Above all, it is the inherent dynamic qualities of plants – the living, ever-changing aspect of garden spaces – that distinguishes gardens from more static structures like houses.
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We are proud to announce that we received a LUXE Regional Residential Excellence in Design Award from LUXE Interiors + Design for our Shore Blocks project.