My Business

Slightly Wild Garden Service is based in Olympia WA.
It is owned and operated by Glen Buschmann, established 1996.

gbwestoly@gmail.com
[360-352-9009]
PO Box 11464
Olympia, WA  98508

My maintenance business IS CLOSED as of 2019. 

I am still consulting and teaching.  

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I specialize in:
• Restoring gardens gone awry.
• Introducing diversity into existing gardens to improve habitat for wildlife.
• Developing native shrub and perennial flower gardens.
• Skilled and discrete pruning;
      When finished your trees and shrubs will be more balanced and less cluttered.
      If you prefer stubs and torn bark call someone else.

I teach workshops on these topics as well on native pollinators, weed identification, and seed saving.
I can lead programs suitable for ages elementary through adult, depending upon the lead time.

I am NOT a lawn service, but do provide maintenance in some gardens with shrub and flower beds.
I do not create architectural scale drawings, although I can make sketches with some details.

I take on special projects as time allows such as:
    stone garden paths and patios
    small arbor and fence projects
    mushroom beds
    irrigation repair
    miscellaneous odd repairs.

I am a licensed business in the state: #601-043-817, with many years of experience.  I stand by my work, but as a maintenance person I am not bonded for catastrophic blunders and disputes -- meaning I do not take on projects that could result in big liabilities.

I spent ten years working in a different field (education, especially special needs teens, 2003 to 2014) before returning to this field, one I both deeply enjoy and understand.

I also spent several field seasons working full and part time for the Nature Conservancy engaged in prairie restoration of the South Sound prairies.  For more information check out South Sound Prairies.

Thank You,

Glen Buschmann

P.S.
My wife, her sister, and I have a blog on wildlife and the natural world - mostly focused on Thurston County but occasionally wandering to other parts of Washington State.
Check us out at Bees, Birds, and Butterflies.