Timeless, Sustainable, Beautiful.
Our mission is to create timeless gardens that are as beautiful as they are sustainable. We strive for expertly designed native, drought tolerant (water-wise) gardens and classic kitchen gardens—using tried and true garden design principles.
In addition to garden design and installation, we can help with maintenance or garden coaching. We also grow our own selection of harder-to-get drought tolerant perennials.
Garden Services
Get help with your garden!
Our services provide flexibility and are designed to help a range of people and needs. We work with gardens of all sizes.
We are also delighted to be a SpokaneScape Pro! If you want help converting some or all of your yard to water-wise plantings, we can help you receive up to $500 in a utility rebate (City of Spokane only).
To get any of the services: simply fill out the “Contact Us” form below and we’ll get back to you soon.
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A garden consult helps give you a vision and next steps for your future garden.
The consult is helpful for those who:
Haven’t gardened before
Want ideas for improving an existing garden
Want new gardens, especially water-wise, native, or kitchen gardens
Have gardening or garden design questions
Prior to the hour-long consult you’ll receive a short questionnaire, so that the consult time can be spent on what matters most. You’ll receive a written summary as a follow-up.
Price: $75/hour
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Get to the next level in your garden with access to your own personal expert. This series of three (or more) 1-on-1 coaching sessions is fully tailored to your specific goals. Before the sessions begin, we will use a questionnaire to build a Custom Session Plan unique to you.
Popular topics include:
Garden design & layout
Plant selection (including water-wise, edible & native options)
Plant care & troubleshooting
Growing a kitchen garden (edible plants)
Selecting the right tools & supplies
Price: $225 for 3 hour-long sessions, then $60 for additional sessions.
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Whether you’re looking to transform your entire property or recreate a part of it—like a new kitchen garden or a water-wise front yard—we create designs that address your vision and needs. We specialize in functional, beautiful spaces that thrive in our local climate and support wildlife. This offering includes:
Discovery & Site Visit: We start with a questionnaire, followed by an on-site consultation.
Concept Design: You’ll receive a preliminary design.
Review & Refinement: This is your opportunity to tell us what you love and what you’d like adjusted.
The Final Design: You receive the final design plan, including a detailed planting list and materials recommendations.
Price: varies, depending on size of garden/property, planting types and complexity of design and terrain.
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We can install gardens in a range of sizes, from a simple set of raised beds to larger yard renovations.
We create gardens of all kinds, and specialize in:
Water-wise (drought tolerant) and native plants that are adapted to Spokane and thrive with less water.
Kitchen gardens, which are typically raised beds with herbs and other edible plants.
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For an hourly rate, we provide maintenance services for the garden. This includes (but is not limited to) pruning, weeding, plant editing and transplanting, de-browning, replanting/planting, raking, additions of compost, mulch or pathway materials.
For services like mowing, leaf-blowing or weed-eating, we can provide recommendations for landscaping services.
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Fotheringham Gardens can provide and deliver a variety of gardening supplies. These include:
Fotheringham Gardens Select Plants: We grow a selection of drought tolerant and native plants, locally.
Nursery Plants: We can source a variety of additional plants.
Garden Accessories: Raised beds, trellises, edging, and more. We pass on our research and recommendations and arrange for delivery (and installation, if wanted).
Contact us
If you’re interested in:
A Garden Consult
Garden Coaching
Design
Installation
Maintenance
Garden Supplies
Anything else
Contact us here to let us know. We can’t wait to help you in your garden!
More about Fotheringham Gardens:
Operating out of the First Fotheringham House, a Victorian-era historic landmark in the Browne’s Addition neighborhood of Spokane, WA, Fotheringham Gardens is owned by Rebecca Monteleone (me!).
I’ve been an avid gardener for more than two decades. I’ve focused on natives and sustainable gardening techniques since the beginning, after receiving my Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Washington.
My goal is to make it easy for more people to have beautiful gardens. To that end, we offer a range of services and can complete projects of many different sizes—or just provide support and expertise through coaching while you get what you need to take your garden to the next level yourself.
I like to blend classic garden styles with water-wise, native and other beautiful plants that thrive in Spokane’s climate, creating gardens that serve humans and nature alike. English cottage, Arts & Crafts, and contemporary Northwest gardens are some of my favorite styles, but each project is unique and responsive to its local site and context.
One of my favorite things: growing our own drought tolerant plants, which can be harder to find in a lot of nurseries. Growing plants from seed and hydroponically on-site in Browne’s Addition is a joy and also gets me the deeper knowledge of plants that comes in handy when designing with a specific plant palette.
In addition to perennial gardens, we’ve developed Kitchen Garden designs and a seasonal planting guide specific to Spokane. You can get your own Kitchen Garden and start enjoying food out of your garden, within weeks. In fact, Fotheringham Gardens is a certified Garden Consultant with Gardenary.
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