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About Owner, designer and general contractor with the 16 year old company Queen Anne Gardens, Daniel enjoys helping a few residential clients per month create custom designs. He and his staff oversee, build and maintain select landscape designs. Daniel is one of three landscape designers in Washington certified by the international organization Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD). He serves as president of the Washington Chapter of APLD and is a mentor to fellow designers in the certification process.
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For additional information about Queen Anne Gardens call 206-285-6770 or email us.
Past Issues
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NEWS 2006December 2006 Sunset MagazineDesigned for PrivacyOne of Queen Anne Garden's gardens is showcased on page 49 of this month's Sunset. " Clean design, well-defined spaces, and meticulous attention to detail make even a small corner lot seem spacious and private. " Pick up a Sunset Magazine to read more.
Form Light Space Art GalleryA Group Show, a “Swift Show “ Daniel Lowery’s oil paintings were featured with the art of other painters, glass artists and sculptors.
Form Space Light 619 N. 35th Street Suite #100 FREMONT (Seattle), WA 98103 In the alley North of the PCC Parking Garage ~ Behind the Orange & Blue Doors. For just two weeks—from September 31th to October 13th—Daniel’s “Swift Show” paintings were on display to titillate minds as a preview and in preparation for his “Long Show” in the Spring.
In April 6 of 2007, for a month, twenty new labyrinth paintings will be shown alongside a 3-D installation and a few labyrinth paintings from years past. All are welcome to enjoy both events!
August 26 "Uptown Stroll-Artists in Action"An annual community arts event, the Uptown Strollfeatures local artists, craftspeople, actors, musicians, and storytellers in a late summer arts celebration. Many artist are at this event each year actively creating artwork based on their Queen Anne/Uptown locale for the day. The activities are centered around the site of the future "Counterbalance Park". Daniel Lowery is featured as a painter creating fun and wonderful art! A representative art piece of many of the Artists' works will be on display at the Queen Anne branch of Bank of America for the months of September and October, including Daniel Lowery's "Butterfly Labyrinth" as seen below.
August 3, 2006 9:30 pm Pacific & Eastern HGTVHGTV Landscaper's ChallengeDaniel Lowery was featured as a designer in an episode of the Landscaper's Challenge reality show this year, 2007.
2006 AwardAssociation of Professional Landscape Designers APLD Fifth Annual Design AwardsThe Residential Gold & Best of Show award...was bestowed upon Daniel Lowery, APLD,of Queen Anne Gardens for a project entitled,"Urban Places-Sanctuary Spaces"A total of forty-nine entries in six catagories were submitted for this year's program. Winners were judged on the following criteria: Effectiveness of presentation; functionality of design elements; suitability of plant material; relationship to site; environmental responsibility; effective integration of plans and hardscapes; originality and creativity; design's affect on maintenance, current and future; and , overall impression. All projects must have been installed within the past seven years. Urban Places-Sanctuary Spaces won the Gold Award in the Design/Install catagory of $25,000 - $75,000 and the Residential Best of Show award 2006. For further information refer to APLD AWARDS.
2006 ConferenceAssociation of Professional Landscape Designers APLD Fifth Annual ConferenceThe Conference from July 17-22 occured in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania focusing on Design Inspiration from the Birthplace of America's GardensPhiladelphia and the Delaware Valley have the highest concentration of botanical gardens and arboreta of any region in the United States. Blessed with a moderate climate, a vigorous economy and bountiful cultural resources the gardens toured displayed a conrnicopia of plants and designs tied in with an inherent culture and history that provides a natural depth and harmony within the designs. June 2006Project Golden ButterflyDevelops a Labyrinth at Bassetti's Crooked Arbor Garden Fair On June 24 & 25 a Garden Art Show & Plant Sale fair took place at Bassetti's Crooked Arbor Garden in Woodinville. At the fair, PROJECT GOLDEN BUTTERFLY , a movement designed to remind people of the health, beauty and pleasure of organic gardening, developed a labyrinth in the shape of a butterfly for all to walk!
This Labyrinth was previously set up at Kerry Park by Daniel Lowery and friends for the 2005 Queen Anne Treewalk providing much delight and serene contemplation. Beside the labyrinth in an open tent an art gallery of Labyrinth Paintings was displayed.
April 27, 2006 -> 7:00-9:30 pm"Fashion as the Main Course"A Benefit for Aids Housing of Washington (AWH)Daniel Lowery modeled clothing by OSLO's at a fundraiser garden party fro AWH. The event is at Peter Norris Home & Garden on Thursday the 27th at 7pm. For more information contact maria@aidshousing.org or phone 206-322-9444 x38. April 2006Seattle Homes & Lifestyles MagazineQueen Anne Gardens created an urban oasis of outdoor rooms for a Queen Anne Couple whose home and gardens were featured in this magazine's April Issue under the title of "Having it All". Pages 49 & 50 display an outdoor room that started out as a tool shed with a dirt floor and has become an integral part of the owners' private retreat in the garden. Page 53 shows the circular terrace that is framed by remnant architectural fragments from Queen Anne's Delamar Building, as well as the prolific evergreen blueberry and the elegant green columns of the Italian Cypress. February 2006APLD - National Board MeetingDaniel volunteers as the Communications Chair on the National Board that met in Chicago this winter. He particapated in workshops on interactive communication and group work on personality types and cooperation. He also presented a powerpoint talk on the Communication Chair's responsibilities and goals of developing the APLD quarterly journal "The Designer". Northwest Flower & Garden ShowThe Pacific Northwest Sunday Magazine in The Seattle Times asked Daniel, along with his peers W. Alan Burke ( a landscape architect and partner in Classic Nursery Landscape Co. of Redmond) and Jeanne E. McNeil (executive director of the Washington State Nursery & Landscape Association) to be the final judges in the third round of their Garden Contest featured in their Northwest Flower and Garden Show issue ( February 5, 2006). In the show's lecture series Sandra M. Dean, Artist, Gardener & Author, presented a talk called Garden Sanctuaries for Reflection and Renewal that featured the work of Queen Anne Gardens.
January 2006Development & CreativityFor five weeks Daniel and Tom telecommuted from San Jose del Cabo, BCS, Mexico where they are developing landscape designs for the growing market of 'warm weather' winter homes. The delight of developing inventive designs of native landscapes in a desert environment has been eye-opening and broadens our ideas on what can be developed in the Pacific Northwest.
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Oil on canvas 30" x 24" $1000 
