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2004 ASLA Professional Awards

Design Award of Merit

Trillium Projects, Seattle, WA
Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture, Seattle, WA
Client: Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation/70th Regional Readiness Command Army Corps of Engineers

Elegant solutions that keep a legacy alive. . . Beautifully done with thoughtful sensitivity to the site and use of native plant materials.
2004 Professional Awards Jury Comments

The Trillium Projects began in 1994 with the idea of building a small native plant garden—only 500 square feet—on the grounds of a neglected WPA-style Parks and Recreation building. What was once a small, experimental garden is now the entrance to Seward Park, a 300-acre park with one of only three remaining old growth forests in Seattle. The efforts that began in Seward Park have continued with five additional projects now collectively referred to as the Trillium Projects, after the region’s native western trillium. The six sites form a network of landscapes, fine-tuned for environmental education that represent a succession of ecologies from the woods to the water's edge.

Seward Park Native Plant Garden. View of the surrounding old growth forest. (Photo: Andrew Buchanan)

Seward Park Native Plant Garden. As the park visitor begins the journey, interpretive signs explain sensory information about natural history and ethno-botany that is later experienced on walks through the native plant and wildlife that comprise this magnificent forest. Wood sorrel is a dominate plant in this landscape. (Photo: Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture)

Genesee Meadow. Wooden posts delineate the edge between meadow and lawn. (Photo: Andrew Buchanan)

Genesee Meadow. View from one of the three large earth mounds that allow trees and shrubs to colonize the meadow landscape and vastly improve nesting and foraging habitat. (Photo: Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture)

500 Area Discovery Park. Aerial view of the 500 Area reveals the re-forestation plan set within and around the old barrack footprints. (Photo: Andrew Buchanan)

500 Area Discovery Park. Aerial close-up view reveals the groves of white-trunked birch and aspen trees that define the footprints of the demolished barracks, (acting as ghosts or memories of the white clad barrack buildings). (Photo: Andrew Buchanan)

Roxhill Bog. Aerial view reveals the bog and wetland which was uncovered and shaped in a grid pattern reminiscent of historical agricultural uses of bogs in this area. (Photo: Andrew Buchanan)

Roxhill Bog. Looking across the bog cells, the community witnesses how native plants and woody debris creates wildlife habitat and educational opportunities. (Photo: Andrew Buchanan)

Pritchard Beach Wetland Park. The main path through the park takes visitors through the Alder Gallery which acts as a threshold between the wet meadow and the pond. (Photo: Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture)

Pritchard Beach Wetland Park. The edge between the wet meadow and lawn, with a view of Lake Washington. (Photo: Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture)

Colman Park. View of the restored Lake Washington shoreline from overlook. (Photo: Andrew Buchanan)

Colman Park. View of the restored Lake Washington shoreline. One of the restoration tactics included the protection of the shoreline except in select locations where non-native willows have clung vicariously to an eroding shoreline. (Photo: Andrew Buchanan)

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