Landscape designer Colleen MacDonald of Sage Green Projects in West Vancouver was handed the brief to create a sun-loving garden in front of a new house on South Pender Island. Her clients happened to be her parents (and the house was conceived by her designer sister, Everest, of Elevation Studio). Influenced by Dutch plantsman Piet Oudolf’s massed perennial plantings, MacDonald envisioned large drifts of plants, especially ornamental grasses, in an array of colours, shapes and textures. The plants—and her plan—also had to rise to the site’s challenges: poor, compacted soil, wind, restricted water, salt air and hungry deer. Here’s how she did it and her tips for better bed-making:
**Designer Colleen MacDonald strolls along a path through the border.**
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