Burien Sand and Gravel was started by Burien-based Robbins and Company. Robbins offers foundation repair and leveling, and is an industry leader in providing slab jacking for driveways and sidewalks. There’s over 50 years of construction experience behind BSG.

Burien Sand & Gravel is located on the Southwest corner of 188th Street and 8th Avenue South

BSG was founded on one premise: “We won’t sell you anything that we wouldn’t use in our own yards.” They sell quality products at very competitive prices.

Burien Sand and Gravel is located near the end of the third runway on the Southwest corner of 188th Street and 8th Avenue South in Burien. Their location is easily accessible not only to Burien-ites, but also to residents of Normandy Park, Seatac, Des Moines, and with a short trip down Highway 509, to White Center and Shorewood folks.

If you’re planning a garden or outdoor project, they’ve got all the products you’ll need to get the job done:

• Various types of crushed and washed rock
• Fine and medium bark — large loads or bagged
• Top Soil
• Cedar Grove Compost, Booster Blend and NW Garden Mulch
• Corona Tools with a lifetime warranty
• Short-Load Concrete

Tyler, John and Matt with one of the small trucks

You’ve probably seen BSG’s small concrete trucks out and about in your neighborhood. When the Robbins brothers developed their business, they felt that there was a great need for short-load concrete in the Highline area. The benefits of short loads are numerous:

• You don’t have to mix it yourself
• You get high quality mixes in small quantities
• The trucks are small so they will fit in places a larger truck wont.
• The cost is competitive with large loads.
• Weekend delivery
• Fast service

They have the products you need to get the job done!

BSG prides themselves on their customer service and product knowledge. There’s always someone there to help you, whether it’s selecting the right gravel for your landscaping project, the bark for your beds or soil most appropriate to grow your dahlias. The helpful staff includes Tyler, Matt, Shannon and Todd. They’re always happy to see you and happy to help you.

From bark, sand, gravel, topsoil, compost, tools and even short-load concrete, BSG has everything you’ll need to get large or small outdoor projects handled. They’ll get it delivered. All you’ve got to do is install it!

Summer hours are Monday-Saturday 8-6 and Sunday 10-5. You’ll find them at 18203 Des Moines Memorial Drive in Burien. Call them for quotes or directions at 206-246-7000.

Can you imagine having a job where you work with plants? Where you view a yard as a useable space to create something beautiful, functional and livable?  New B-Town Blog Advertiser Rodda and Sons Landscapes has done just that for thousands of yards around the Seattle area.

Owned by Barry and Jan Rodda, Rodda and Sons Landscapes, Inc. is a second generation, family-owned, design/build construction company, landscaping in the King County area since 1937. Barry’s dad, Stewart Rodda, the company founder, even did the initial landscaping at the Frederick and Nelson in Bellevue back in the 50s.

Since its inception, Rodda and Sons has specialized as a landscape contractor in the design and installation of residential and small commercial landscapes, both for new construction and the renovation of existing landscapes and gardens.

A backyard before Rodda and Sons...

Barry tells BTB, “Our designers enjoy creating beautiful outdoor living spaces and gardens that reflect your lifestyle, from formal to informal and low maintenance to active gardening. They are also knowledgeable in designing native and drought tolerant landscapes with habitat to encourage birds, butterflies, bees, and other small wildlife.”

Barry and Jan agree that their designer, Janell Frazier-Day, with several years of garden design experience, is an ”excellent, excellent designer.”

Rodda’s landscape foremen are experienced in installing all phases of a landscape project and many jobs involve a single element of the landscape, e.g. a patio, a retaining wall, or a sprinkler system. Sprinkler systems in Seattle, Barry? “You know we have two months of drought in the Seattle area every summer,” said Barry. We’ll take that as a ‘Yes’ on the sprinklers!

Rodda and Sons’ three designers have a total of 65 years’ experience and three foremen have a combined total of 55 years’ experience. These people love the landscape business, and they’re good at it too!

...and AFTER!

As for Barry and Jan Rodda? Well, Barry grew up in the business. Jan tells BTB that on road trips as a kid, Barry and his family played “Name that Plant” instead of the ”License Plate Game” that those of us of a certain age will remember. Barry went off to WSU to get a degree in Bio-Chemistry, volunteered for Vietnam, and married his college sweetheart, Jan, before he left. She went on to teach second grade in the Highline area.

Timing being everything, Barry’s dad retired and became a design consultant for the firm. Barry took his Bio-Chemistry degree and joined his brother, Foster, in the family landscape design and contracting business. That was 1973. Jan joined them as the bookkeeper shortly thereafter. They had always run the business from their home, but a buy-out for the third runway allowed them to move to a new home in the Normandy Park/Burien area and move their landscape contracting business to a commercial site right where SeaTac, Burien and Des Moines converge. Barry and Jan are assisted in the business by their nine-year old Golden Retriever, Savanna, who comes to work with Barry every day.

We need to warn you though – Rodda and Sons is not the type of landscape business that stuffs fliers in your mailbox to mow the grass, trim trees or move plants around. They are a full-service landscape contractor whose projects include:

• Demolition
  

  Barry, Jan and Savannah Rodda.

• Grading, drainage, and soil preparation
• Design and consulting
• Lawns and plantings
• Sprinkler systems
• Retaining walls
• Patios and walkways
• Decks, railings, and stairs
• Fences and screens
• Customized arbors
• Water falls, ponds, and fountains

Barry tells BTB that a well-designed outdoor living space can add 10-15% to the value of a home. If you’re in the market for a new, well-designed outdoor living space, or if you need a new deck or patio, why not give Rodda and Sons a call at 206-242-6063. And please check out their website (www.RoddaAndSons.com) for samples of their very excellent work.

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What better way to celebrate the belated arrival of Spring (or does this qualify as an early Summer?) than by heading on over to Shorewood Park on Saturday from 10am – Noon for a mulch spreading and invasive plant removal work party?

Volunteers will be working in the lower portion of the park so follow the short trail till you reach them. Parks Board Chair Jean Spohn will be leading the effort on Saturday so be sure to get signed in with her. You do not have to stay the whole time – come for as long as your schedule allows.

Shorewood Park is located at 28th Avenue SW and SW 118th Street (follow Ambaum to 116th Street, turn left and head west on 116th Street; at 28th Avenue SW take a left and go 2 blocks; the park entrance is on your left).

If you have loppers bring them along.

And don’t forget the sunscreen!

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