Dayton / Dundee, Oregon landscape design. Modern landscape style to match the beautiful modern style custom home situated on a hilltop in the Oregon wine country. The walkway is made out of salt & pepper granite lined with lavandula 'Grosso.'

Dayton/ Dundee, Oregon landscape design. Modern landscape front entrance in the Oregon wine country. Check out the large red boulder in the left foreground. This boulder was formed from the native nutrient-rich Jory soil. This red hued soil is renowned for producing Pinot Noir with bright red fruit notes.

Dayton / Dundee, Oregon landscape design. Corten steel panels to retain the upper level of soil. The red hue of the panels ties in with the red hued Jory soil. This is the driveway entrance with the grape fields beyond. What a lovely entrance to come home to.

Mid-Century Modern style home in Raleigh Hills, Oregon. Our clients request was to keep their one much loved windmill palm. The front was all grass on a gentle slope with a skinny walkway from the driveway to the front door. We designed a centrally located entrance walkway that zig-zagged to the front door, retaining paver walls, paver planter boxes that helped to level the slope, and new planting beds.

Raleigh Hills, Oregon contemporary landscape design. A zig zag paver walkway to the front door with black Mexican pebbles in between, paver retaining walls and planter boxes.

Mid-Century Modern style home in Raleigh Hills, Oregon. We retained the original walkway from the driveway, but widened it and changed out the material to match the new zig-zag walkway. Our clients loved the large stepping pavers and the black Mexican pebbles set in-between.

Mid-Century Modern style home in Raleigh Hills, Oregon. Lower front planting beds just off the gravel parking area, sets up the drama of the beautiful house beyond.

Raleigh Hills, Oregon. Traditional NW style backyard garden. We added the short retaining paver wall to gently level the slope and to add height interest.

Raleigh Hills, Oregon. Traditional NW style backyard garden. The homeowners love palms, so we designed with hardy windmill palms 'Trachycarpus fortunei'.

Traditional style landscape for a craftsman home in Vancouver, Washington. The homeowners wanted to have a more useable space along the side of the house. We added a fireplace as a focal point and created a curved stepping stone walkway, which allowed pockets of plantings on both sides.

Traditional style landscape for a craftsman home in Vancouver, Washington. This corner is where the side yard meets the backyard. Now the homeowners have a lovely garden area to sit next to while dining alfresco. We designed a white garden of shasta daisy, white alliums, white roses, and white sunpatiens.

Traditional style sidewalk landscape for a craftsman home in Vancouver, Washington. The sidewalk bed was originally a random mix of plants. To make it cohesive and beautiful, we worked with only three plants, repeating them down the long sidewalk-cypresses, lavender, and euonymus.

Before & After Design, McMinville, Oregon. Before: Large steep blank side yard with lots of potential. After: Designed a 4' wide terracing paver staircase with 3 landing areas to make it down the hill. Designed a garden of cohesive plant material along both sides of the staircase.

Before & After Design, McMinville, Oregon. Before: The backyard had an unusable steep slope. After: Designed two retaining walls. The bottom wall enabled us to design a walkway and garden between the two walls. The upper retaining wall allowed us to design a paver patio for the lower level house entrance.

Cottage Garden Style, Lake Oswego, Oregon | Tulips, Tassel Fern, Heuchera, and Alliums.

Cottage Garden Style, Lake Oswego, Oregon | There were originally two dogwood trees, which completely blocked the front door. We transplanted the larger one and removed the smaller less healthy dogwood. Now there is a clear view of the front door which makes a strong focal point. Every year The White Pear crew plants hundreds of bulbs in the fall for springtime beauty.

Cottage Style Garden, Lake Oswego, Oregon | In the spring, the WP maintenance crew prunes shrubs, splits perennials, plants annuals, and adds a thick layer of dark leaf debris compost to all the planting beds, which feeds the plants, keeps weeds down, and conserves water. In the fall, the WP crew does a clean-up, and plants hundreds of tulip bulbs for springtime beauty!

Traditional NW garden style in Ridgefield, Washington During our initial consultation, the homeowners mentioned to me that they liked to sit under this particular tree. They would drag their chairs and hammock out to relax under the tree in the late afternoon. I thought it would be lovely and more functional, if we built a patio for them to have a defined area to lounge under their tree. We chose decomposed crushed granite, because of its natural old world look and feel. The homeowners loved the paisley shape.

Traditional NW Garden Style, Ridgefield, Washington | The water feature was existing, but we designed approximately 80% new plant material.

Traditional NW Garden Style, Ridgefield, Washington | We generously opened up both existing planting beds, designed new plant material, and relocated some of the existing plant material. We also designed a decomposed crushed granite pathway with a boxwood hedge to connect the two beds. Connecting them made the garden more cohesive, not two separate beds like islands in a sea of grass. The boxwoods will eventually fill in, and be pruned to make a squared off hedge.

Traditional NW Garden Style, Ridgefield, Washington | Water feature to charming garden shed.

Dry Rock Creek Garden, Portland, Oregon | We designed this side garden with lush plantings and a dry rock creek bed. The dry creek bed was needed to keep the area from flooding, as the property sits on a steep slope.

Dry Rock Creek Garden, Portland, Oregon | Going over the new plant material with the homeowners.

Serene Asian-Inspired Garden Design

Portland, OR cottage style garden. Colors always pop against a black fence.

Parking Strip Planting Bed, Portland, Oregon | Vibrant Colors! A colorful parking strip planting bed of ajuga, iberis, euphorbia, and tulips— a glorious sight after a long winter!

Portland, OR. A lush garden with green boxwood shrubs, purple tulips, magenta clematis, and blue pansies, anchored by an old multi-stemmed hydrangea paniculata tree.

Asian-inspired backyard garden in Portland, Oregon. The homeowners wanted a serene Asian-inspired backyard retreat. We removed all of the grass except for a small patch for their small dog, designed planting berms, and all new plants for beauty and privacy. Our clients kept bringing us their plant treasures to add to their new garden. It was a fun and successful collaboration.

Before & After Design, Canby, OR Before Left: The backyard was an empty dirt yard and old wooden fence with visible houses behind. After Right: Designed a new fence for privacy and a short retaining wall to level the area and create interest. This is plant placement day, always a fun day for us.

Before & After Design, Portland, Oregon | Before Left: Old rusty shed and diseased apple tree, and old weedy grass. After Right: Removed shed and apple tree. Designed and built beautiful pathways and planting beds.

A vibrant perennial garden in Portland, Oregon with white hydrangeas, pink azaleas, purple salvia, and lush green foliage, alongside a stone pathway and a grassy lawn in the background.

Summer Perennial Garden Bed, Portland, Oregon. A planting berm of agapanthus, hakonechola grasses, cotinus, and edgeworthia.

Summertime Blooms! Portland, Oregon | Dahlias, roses, agapanthus, & phormium.