Testimonials

Karen is both an artist and an engineer combining her eye for beauty with careful measurement and planning. Her work is so thorough including identifying the plants I wanted and then helping me to find them. She is truly a joy to learn from and work with. 

Jeanne-Marie Manning
Santa Rosa, CA

Karen, I love my permaculture garden.  I am new to gardening and your help has been invaluable.  It feels like a work of art that not only delights and feeds me, but also other life; worms, birds, bees, butterflies!  It is so alive!  It is a miniature sanctuary!  Your help in the design and in delivering the plants was very generous…and your advice over the phone when I have questions gives me confidence in areas where I have no experience.  I appreciate it very much and my delightful garden thrives because of you.  Thank you so much! 

Sandra Campbell
Santa Rosa, CA

Wild Willow has designed two different sites for me, each with different environments and uses: a small Pacific Heights backyard in San Francisco, and a garden and landscaping for a country home in an oak grove. She also provides ongoing landscape consulting services for a large commercial setting, covering 7 acres. I am delighted with each landscaping effect, not only when it was installed, but also how it has matured. Karen is amenable to suggestions from the client, but holds to her convictions about design elements and appropriate planting. She is imaginative and conscientious, following up on plants which don't live up to her expectations. I recommend Wild Willow Landscape Design with enthusiasm.

Rachael Balyeat
San Francisco, CA

Karen Boness really knows her stuff. I've used her twice to help me choose plants for my acre; once to work on the perimeter and outer regions and the second time to help with new landscaping around the house after a new deck was built. Both times I was simply amazed at her extensive knowledge of what grows well in Sonoma County without a lot of fuss and water, and what grows best  in each microclimate. Karen listened well to my dreams and preferences and ran with them,  making  suggestions that delighted me. She also told me the best places to purchase each tree or shrub and I easily located everything before the weekend was over!  What a lot of time she saved me!  I didn't have to pore over catalogs or spend hours in nurseries, agonizing over what to plant.   I'm sure I would have made many costly errors on my own and wasted money on plants that couldn't make it. Karen is warm and caring to work with. I've recommended her to many of my friends and wouldn't hesitate to call on her again!

Carla Hines
Santa Rosa, CA