Gardens that look better every year.
Fern & Field designs and builds gardens, patios and outdoor rooms across Olympia and the South Sound. Native plants, real stone, and a crew that comes back to check on them.
Olympia, WashingtonA fern frond unrolling in April
Fern & Field Landscapes presents
- average from 200+ reviews
- 4.9
- building South Sound gardens since 2009
- 17 years
- warranty on plants and stonework
- 2 years
- bonded and insured in Washington
- Licensed
- Native plant specialists
- Rain garden builders
- Dry-laid stone and basalt
- Free second-year check-up
A terrace for watching the light go.
Boston Harbor, OlympiaHilltop terrace, built in eleven days
What we make
One crew designs it, builds it and comes back to look after it. Prices are where most projects start.
Design visit, $195. Two hours on site with a designer, credited to your design if you go ahead.
- Garden design
- from $1,800
- A scaled plan, a planting list and a budget you can build in phases.
- Patios, paths and walls
- from $32 per sq ft
- Bluestone, basalt and gravel, laid on a base that won’t heave.
- Planting
- priced with your plan
- Natives and tough ornamentals, chosen for the light you actually get.
- Outdoor lighting
- from $2,400
- Low-voltage path, step and tree lights on one timer.
- Irrigation and rain gardens
- from $1,500
- Drip zones, and rain gardens that take the water off your roof.
- Seasonal care
- from $165 a month
- Pruning, mulch and weeding, with a full visit each spring and fall.
The reel
Recent gardens. Swipe or scroll sideways, or tab to the reel and use the arrow keys.
TumwaterCedar pergola over a gravel walk 
Olympia, West SideDeck, steps and a hosta shade garden 
LaceyDry-laid granite wall with ferns 
Steamboat IslandCovered walk and stepping-stone path 
Boston HarborGas fire bowl for the hilltop terrace
From first walk to first bloom
Most gardens take six to ten weeks from the design visit to the last plant in the ground.
Design visit
We walk the yard with you, test the soil and note where the sun lands and where the water goes.
Plan and price
A scaled drawing, a planting list and a fixed price, phased if you’d rather build over two seasons.
Build
Our own crew lays the stone, sets the lighting and runs the irrigation. No subcontractors.
Planting
Plants go in when the weather is right for them, usually spring or fall, mulched and watered in.
Second-year check-up
We come back after the first full year to replace anything that didn’t take, at no charge.
4.9 average from 200+ reviews
5 out of 5 stars
“Our muddy side yard is now where we eat dinner all summer.”
5 out of 5 stars
“They replaced two shrubs that didn’t make it through winter without our asking.”
5 out of 5 stars
“The rain garden ended the puddle by our garage. It flowers, too.”
Made by a small crew
Rosa Delgado started Fern & Field in 2009 with a pickup truck and ten years of nursery work behind her. The name is the two halves of most Northwest yards: the shady side where ferns are happy, and the open side that wants sun.
Today the crew is eleven people, and the person who draws your plan is on site when it’s built.
- Founder and lead designer
- Rosa Delgado
- Stonework
- Ben Okafor
- Planting and care
- Ellie Varga
- Lighting and irrigation
- Sam Whitfield
Book a design visit.
Two hours in your yard with a designer for $195, credited to your design. We reply within one working day.
Email to book Call (360) 555-0188
- Design studio
- 412 Cedar Row SW, Olympia, WA 98502
Visits by appointment - Hours
- Monday to Friday, 7:30 to 5
Saturday design visits, 9 to 1 - We work in
- Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater, Boston Harbor and Steamboat Island
Boston HarborThe fire bowl, after dark