Colleen Miko, Designer

Colleen Miko has been working in horticulture on the West Coast for 15 years.  Before starting her local design business “Colleen’s”, she worked as nursery person, and offered both interior plant design and maintenance as well as landscape maintenance services.  Colleen is a Certified Professional Horticulturist (CPH) and is currently working on her Masters of Science in Agriculture at Washington State University.  In 2005 she studied Plant Protection and Pest Management at the graduate level at the University of Georgia, in the Department of Entomology.  Her practical experience combined with ongoing educational training makes her a knowledgeable and helpful garden consultant. 

Colleen enjoys speaking for local garden groups, and writing garden related articles for the monthly trade industry magazine “B&B” as well as the West Sound Home and Garden Magazine.

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News & Events

Last February, Colleen coordinated and designed a show garden for the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. The garden, titled “Suburban Swank with a Twist” was a collaboration with another landscape designer on behalf of the Washington State Nursery & Landscape Association (WSNLA), of which she has been an active member since 1998.  She has designed two other award winning show gardens for WSNLA, one for the Point Defiance Flower & Garden show in June of 2006 titled “He’s Out Back” and the other for the Northwest Flower & Garden Show in 2003 titled “Art Nouveau Becomes New Art”.  Designing show gardens allows Colleen to work alongside talented artisans, experiment with new landscaping materials and get feedback from the public.

In 2006, Colleen was chosen to participate in an episode of HGTV’s television show “Landscaper’s Challenge” along with another landscape designer and landscape architect.  Her design for a Children’s Garden was chosen for installation of the three presented to the homeowners. The episode, filmed in West Seattle, follows the design process from the original presentation through landscape installation to the completed garden.  The episode will air May 24th 9:30 pm on HGTV.   “Doing the show was a unique opportunity to compare what I had done with the garden space to what two other respected professionals had designed for the same area.  It was fun to see that all three of us had imagined something completely different and they were all beautiful.” says Colleen of her “Landscaper’s Challenge” experience.