See What We’ve Planted, Built and Brought to Life.
Our clients wanted a front landscape that they could easily manage, a style cohesive to the house, and wanted 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-zags to the front door, retaining paver walls, paver planter boxes that helped to level the slope, and new planting beds that helped to soften the hardscape.
Mid-Century Modern style home in Raleigh Hills, Oregon. New Belgard Weston retaining walls and planter boxes, and a zig-zag paver walkway to the front door.
We retained the original asphalt 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. Lower front planting beds just off the gravel parking area, sets up the drama of the beautiful house beyond.
A well-maintained front yard garden for a Mid-Century Modern style house. featuring Windmill palms, Ilex Sky Pencils for vertical exclamation points, and easy care red shrub roses for a pop of color.
Traditional Style Side Garden for a craftsman style home in Vancouver, Washington. The original side garden was straight, long, and boring. Curving the pathway, gave us pockets to plant in, and allowed a person to meander slowly down the pathway to enjoy the garden. Adding an outdoor fireplace made a nice destination and strong focal point. We designed an all white garden, white tulips and white candytuft in the spring; white alliums, white roses, white daisies, and white hydrangeas in the summer.
Traditional style sidewalk garden 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, euonymus.
In the fall we plant hundreds of tulips for a spectacular burst of springtime color.
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.
Traditional NW Garden Style, Ridgefield, Washington
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.
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!
Cottage Garden Style, Lake Oswego, Oregon | Tulips, Tassel Fern, Heuchera, and Alliums.
Serene Asian-Inspired Garden Design
Colors are brighter against a black fence.
Parking Strip Planting Bed, Portland, OR | Vibrant Colors! A colorful parking strip planting bed of ajuga, iberis, euphorbia, and tulip bulb a glorious sight after a long winter!
A lush garden with green shrubs, purple, pink, and blue flowers, and a small tree with pink flowers.
Lush garden with various green plants, purple flowers, white flowers, and a gnarled tree trunk.
Our clients wanted a serene Asian-inspired backyard garden. We removed most of the grass except for a small patch for their small dog, added planting berms, and lots of 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.
Left side shows an empty dirt yard with a wooden fence and houses in the background. Right side shows people planting and landscaping with potted plants, when one person is pointing, and another is standing nearby.
Before & After Design, Portland, Oregon | Before: Old rusty shed and diseased apple tree, and old weedy grass. After: Removed shed and apple tree. Designed and built beautiful pathways and planting beds.
A vibrant garden 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, OR | Planting berm of agapanthus, hakonechola grasses, cotinus, and edgeworthia.
Summertime Blooms! Portland, OR | Dahlias, roses, agapanthus, & phormium.
