For visitors and locals alike, it’s hard not to take notice of the flora and fauna that has made Oregon so iconic, and you don’t have to travel far to find some. Here’s our guide to help you take a little piece of Oregon home to your own backyard, with shops and landscape designers from Northeast to Southwest and everywhere in between, as well as on the outskirts of Portland.
There are many lessons about bulbs I could teach you — designing, sourcing, and planting, but I think you’ll really appreciate this one — learned first hand by yours-truly, the hard way.
Sheila Meehan’s home office is only steps away from her 1926 house in Northeast Portland.
With small gardens, it’s important to choose plants that will mature to the appropriate size and not become huge. These are some great options.
A traditional Finnish sauna is the perfect warming antidote to stormy Northwest winters, and the health benefits extend to users whatever the conditions outdoors.
To stay on budget, there were no design drawings, instead lawn paint was used to outline the pathway and planting berms. Our goal was to design a beautiful garden with a sense of order, while retaining the integrity of the surrounding woods.
Transforming A Boggy Muddy Mess Into A Beautiful Side Garden.
Suburbia is often maligned and seen as a major mistake in land use. There was even a movie titled “The End of Suburbia” a few years back. But suburbia may just be the solution to a gnawing set of problems brought on by the overuse of fossil fuels generated by suburbia itself. The most pressing of which is global climate change. It’s become clear that business as usual isn’t an option.
One of my favorite parts of building gardens is the opportunity to connect people to place in a new way. And what better way to make that connection than through the goal of creating habitat.
