Seasoned Landscape Designer and Consultant at Your Service
About Sacred Nature Designs
“It started when I was knee-high and walking among grass hoppers… I fell in love with Nature.”
From Nature, Anna Thurston has gained essential environmental skills that illuminate her creation and understanding of functional and visually pleasing landscapes. Resource-efficiency is at the core of her design, restoration and landscape management philosophy.
All of this is rooted in a desire to share what she knows to minimize or eliminate negative environmental impacts on fragile water supplies and habitat systems upon which humans and the diversity of wildlife depend.
Anna obtained a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Horticulture / Design from Colorado State University, has studied Landscape Architecture at Kansas State University, the University of Colorado at Denver, and at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Most recently, Anna obtained a Masters in Environmental Studies from the Evergreen State College after defining and analyzing failure in green roof systems.
Anna’s involvement as an educator with the Washington State University Extension Service, the Denver Botanic Gardens, plus state and national Landscape Contractors associations adds to her perspectives regarding effective design and efficient resource use in the landscape.
With over 40 years of design, horticulture, and water conservation, Anna Thurston has a broad knowledge of native and adapted plants, plus soils and irrigation. Her leadership and educational skills allow her to aid any age group and skill set.
Anna’s field expertise as an industry certified Landscaper further informs her creation of awardwinning landscapes and garden structures. Her landscapes and ecological restoration projects offer outdoor rooms and open spaces that get used, but which require few monetary or chemical inputs over time.
Anna is also a certified Permaculture designer, and is skilled in development of rain gardens, green infrastructure and LID (Light Impact Development), used to successfully manage stormwater.
Sacred Nature Designs follow these project management paths:
Preliminary client meeting:
- review potential project details,
- consider costs related to services,
- discuss site and possible approach,
- scheduling and communications.
Establish contract timeline;
Assess existing site conditions; obtain and verify accuracy of baseline data;
Client communication to obtain applicable project details;
Owner / Designer Brainstorm;
Develop and fulfill Scope of Work;
Complete Contract documentation;
Present Preliminary Plans , then Intermediate and/or Final Plans, plus
related documents; andCustomer assessment of services completed following project billing.
