Touchstone Landscape Management

About Touchstone Landscape Management

The roads through Artondale wind under a fir canopy thick enough that a madrona's peeling orange bark can be the brightest thing in sight most winter afternoons, at least until a rare snow changes the palette entirely. Touchstone Landscape Management tends gardens all over this stretch of the Gig Harbor peninsula in the greener months, so the winter work of clearing walkways and driveways comes with an eye for what's underneath: bulbs and root systems that a heavy hand with a shovel can just as easily damage as clear. The peninsula's inlets keep the air a little softer than it is farther inland, which means snow here rarely stays long enough to become routine, but a cleared path still matters on the one or two mornings a year it's needed. The crew works the winding lanes methodically, since a peninsula road with no shoulder to speak of leaves little room for a half-cleared stretch. By the time the snow is gone, the gardens underneath are exactly as they were left, ready for whatever comes next in the ground.