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Click to enlarge! “The world gives us so very much. It gives us our life. All of our neighbors — the ants, spiders, salmon, geese, sharks, seals, cottonwoods, chestnuts — are doing the real work of keeping this planet going. Isn’t it time we did our share?” –Derrick Jensen, from “Endgame: Resistance” The Willamette Valley

Raingardens offer an effective landscape solution to managing stormwater on-site.

We offer you a butterfly garden design to get your creative juices flowing.

Beth Young’s Rain Garden Design

Beth Young’s Shade Garden Design

Native edibles are low-care (if planted in the right place) because they are uniquely adapted to our soil, weather and seasons. While they are providing berries for our jam, they are also feeding and housing our birds, bees, bugs and other native critters that badly need our help.

The key ingredients to a healthy wildlife environment are shelter, food and water. This design incorporates all three of these important features.

This beneficials attracting garden plan is a low, sunny border planting, 30’ wide by 5’ deep.

Hedgerows provide food, cover for nesting, shelter, and a travel lane for wildlife.

This pollinator garden features showy native Willamette Valley plants.

Design a sustainable landscape around your home with the help of expert landscape designer!