by Carol | Mar 9, 2022 | Drought Tolerant Garden, Garden Tips, Low Maintenance Landscape Examples, Plants I Recommend
Portland Loves Low Maintenance, Pollinator Friendly Plant Sempervivum I love to use these plants hens and chicks -Sempervivum in my low maintenance landscape designs. The name Sempervivum means ‘always alive’ so even new gardeners will be successful with this...
by Carol | Feb 8, 2022 | Before and Afters, Garden Tips, Gardening Green, Landscape Styles, No lawn back yard, Plants I Recommend, Rain Garden, Shade Garden Tips, Shade Plants
Decades Designing a NW Natural Garden Landscape Design Creating a NW Natural Native Garden Design for a hillside home in Portland, Oregon? Why say time travel? I met D and R and we created their first native garden design in 1997 and they are still enjoying their...
by Carol | Aug 10, 2021 | Before and Afters, Customer Testimonials, Garden Tips, Landscape Styles, Low Maintenance Landscape Examples, No lawn back yard, No Lawn Front Yards
Four Portland Front Yards Get Landscape Makeover Pathways are an opportunity to connect your house to the land. These clients in the Irvington neighborhood had a pretty dinky underwhelming entry path from the sidewalk that did nothing for their home. The 2 huge...
by Alana Chau | Jun 3, 2021 | Before and Afters, Dramatic Flowers, Drought Tolerant Garden, No Lawn Front Yards
Creating A Dream Portland Front Yard with Drought Tolerant Plants Jazz up the Entry of this Modern Style Home Ashley and family had just taken down two huge trees in the front yard. As they stared at the piles of mulch from grinding the stumps, they thought “now...
by Carol | Mar 28, 2021 | Accessory Dwelling Unit ADU, Before and Afters, Customer Testimonials, Drought Tolerant Garden, Garden Tips, No Lawn Front Yards
Drought tolerant garden design in North Portland My client Laurie had lived in her 1950’s ranch style home for over a decade and was only the 2nd owner. She removed all the lawn and added exuberant plantings that hid much of the house from the neighborhood. She loved...
