Considered one of the Pacific Northwest’s most influential landscape architects, Tom Berger was born in northern California on March 7, 1945. He moved with his parents and six siblings to Port Orchard in Kitsap County after his father purchased a garden store in Bremerton. Berger took to the Northwest environment with a passion, acquiring a deep familiarity with its native and adaptive plants and their distinctive color palette. After earning a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture in 1968 from Washington State University, Berger worked at several area landscape-architecture firms before founding the Berger Partnership in 1971. For the next four decades, his client list was a veritable who’s who…