Reviews of local pros in Olympia, Washington

I enjoy having a nursery in Tumwater....the plants are beautiful and hearty! The best quality I had in some time...they came back this season looking healthy, went back for more!

LJ did an amazing job creating a backyard haven for us that has given us so much joy. Her love for creating beautiful spaces was felt in this project!

LJ has done my hedges around my house every year and several other projects over the 4+ years I have owned my home. She & her staff are efficient and do a great job of clean up. The one time an employee messed up a fencing job LJ took responsibility and fixed it herself. Very ethical and a good business person.

I would highly recommend Cultivating Kindness Landscape and Design! LJ the owner came out to our home and helped us create a new yard and garden spaces! She took out many scrubs, small trees, and moved many plants to our English Garden! She moved lots of soil to our other garden areas!
She transformed our garden spaces near the sides of our home! She saved all our indigenous ferns! She added soil to the ferns so thy will grow properly! She covered the areas around the ferns with fabric, gravel, soil, and river rocks! Then she sprayed the river rock with a spray so the rocks look wet! The side yards are so spectacular!
Our other gardens got more soil and the plants were spread out so they could grow healthy and not get all tangled up together! Our English Garden looks fantastic! Our roses are doing well and are so healthy now!
Cultivating Kindness Landscaping and Design transformed our over crowded yard and gardens into a beautiful, healthy, yard, English Garden, rose garden, and fern garden! The transformation is beyond fabulous! We love it!❤️

Lovely place ran by a hard working and caring owner. LJ keeps the space welcoming with lovely plants but the nursery is designed to bring in clients for landscaping. LJs true passion is transforming spaces and making welcoming landscapes. Check it out.

So I walked in to our local nursery with my poor cactus, (root bound & under-watered), to see about having the thing transplanted into a bigger pot (even I can figure out that a pot should be able to hold up the plant within it). Turns out the nursery and landscaping company hasn’t officially expanded to “plant diagnostics” yet. Luckily for me LJ is a super cool plant lady and while she explained that what I was asking for wasn’t currently in their list of provided services also talked about what steps I should take to help my cactus and let me at one of the soil mounds ‘round back.
Hopefully I won’t need their services again for a while but when I do, I’m glad there’s a local talent I’ll be returning to.

Just visited this nursery looking for some plants for a planter in my back yard and met LJ. She was so helpful and kind and helped us pick out plants. I came home and planted them and I am so happy with the results. I will definitely going back to get more plants for my yard. 😊
Laura J Kelly, Tumwater, WA

LJ was wonderful to work with yesterday! She went above and beyond for a “small potatoes” customer - me - who just wanted to buy my first couple of house plants - she gave me a full beginners course on house plants, showing me how to re-pot, feed and water them, and made sure I was equipped with enough knowledge to give my beautiful snake plant a shot! I am so in love with my new botanical addition to the family, and am looking toward to coming back for more. Thanks Cultivating Kindness! You made my day yesterday :)

Stopped in to check it out and got a chance to speak to the owner LJ. Such a pleasure, a kind person who cares about what they do and the impact it leaves on others. Plants were well cared for and beautiful. Got a lovely hydrangea, and will definitely return.

LJ has been awesome to work with and the work has been outstanding. I had a vague idea of what I wanted and she was able to turn my ramblings into reality. My backyard will be awesome when it is finished. Will post a picture at that time. I highly recommend using Cultivating Kindness for any of your landscaping needs. If you need plants check out their nursery.

I love this woman-owned and operated landscape design and nursery business. The owner, L.J. Is extremely knowledgeable about plants/shrubs/trees and her expending nursery showcases some beautiful specimens. In addition to garden design and landscaping, she offers garden consultations at your home ($125 for an hour) and in an hour solved three persistent problems that have been plaguing my garden for 15 years and provided me detailed notes as well. Well worth the investment.

I was struggling to find a mother's day gift and all the big stores I tried were out of stock on everything I inquired about. A family member recommended Cultivating Kindness and I am so happpy they did. I met the owner who was an absolute delight and who took the time to help me pick out the perfect nectarine tree for my mom. She also made sure the tree was healthy and properly watered before she'd let me walk off with it.

It was a fantastic experience and I highly recommend you go and see for yourself!

“We had a wonderful experience working with LJ, the owner of Cultivating Kindness Landscape & Design. One of the things I loved most was that she had a great selection of plants right on site, which made it easy to find options that were not only beautiful but well-suited to our specific environmental conditions. She took the time to help us choose thoughtfully and strategize how to place them for the best visual impact and healthy plant growth.

The design she created is aesthetic, harmonious, and feels like a natural extension of our landscape. It’s clear that a lot of care and attention went into making something that fits us—not just any template.

Everything about the process felt very personalized. She was responsive, easy to work with, and offered such a wide range of services— it was an incredible value and money well spent. I can’t recommend her highly enough!”

Mary & Bob LeMier

Great experience with this company from the minute we arrived. Owner is friendly, extremely passionate about landscaping, and is very knowledgeable. Very good rates and prices. Transformed my front yard in three days to my exact wishes, planting my Japanese maples very carefully.

I hired Cultivating Kindness to design and implement a water feature that would bring us joy as we listened to cascading water from our deck in the summer months. LJ had an immediate vision for the project that really resonated with me after several false starts with other landscaping designers. She is a dream to work with - so authentic and kind and creative. She pays attention to details and communicates well. My expectations were managed and I'm delighted with the result. Can't wait for summer. Happy to show it off if anyone wants to see her finished work!

LJ, Tomas, Ricardo, and Naomi did a beautiful job on our retaining wall. LJ’s design is amazing and they got the project completed in only 2 days. The next time we need any planting needs or other landscaping architecture done, we will definitely be calling Cultivating Kindness. Thanks again for your amazing help and your gorgeous vision, LJ!

*the before picture is from 2 years ago, but you can definitely see the problem that LJ and her crew fixed for us

Cultivating Kindness installed the most amazing perennial garden bed and retaining wall design along with a walking flagstone path and lighting. They kept my backyard clean and disposed of all the yard waste and mess that had been there from years of neglect. They were all professional and worked in an organized manner. LJ is a delight to work with! Her passion and creativity came through and we couldn't be happier with the results.

Amazing work by this company. Couldn’t be more satisfying with there work.

Lawn boys is a fantastic company. Their biweekly lawn service is done timely and professionally. We’ve also have had several projects that Lawn Boys have done on our property. This company does a beautiful job. The employees are very kind as well. We couldn’t be more happy with their work.

These guys are great! Cleaned up my whole property (1acre) and the gravel driveway which is big before my house went on the market. They continued to maintain the property every two weeks until it sold while I was living out of state already. Highly recommend.

I'm a contractor myself.
I first encountered lawn Boys on a project that I was assisting on in the Rochester area. They were doing a fantastic job with a Hardscape and other features around a large piece of property. They did a fantastic job.

I needed some Hedges cleaned up on my property so I asked Bren if he would be interested in coming to Olympia and sure enough he was. He showed up on tume, his crew did a terrific job of fixing a long neglected hedge on my property line cleaned up beautiftime, The bill was exactly what the estemate was!!!

I highly recommend them!!