Watering While Away
How to keep your plants healthy and happy while you enjoy your trip It’s vacation time! You’re going to be... View Article
Phased Landscape Installation: Managing the cost of your outdoor renovation
Redoing your outdoor areas, whether you are starting from scratch, updating parts of an existing landscape or completely renovating... View Article
The Surprising Health Benefits Behind Gardens and Landscapes
It’s not exactly breaking news that leafy greens are good for you. But can that apply to more than your... View Article
Drake’s 7 Dees featured in Oregon Home magazine
We’re so pleased with the beautiful feature Oregon Home magazine did on our Hillsdale Mediterranean! Learn more about the job... View Article
Rain, Rain, Rain. Excess Rainwater and Design
Rainwater Design Elements Design elements that work with excess rainwater instead of against it. In the Pacific Northwest, it rains;... View Article
Oregon Natives, The Best Low-Maintenance Landscape
Low-Maintenance Landscape Design In our Design Studio, we get a lot of requests for a low-maintenance landscapes. While spending time... View Article
Successful Gardening in a Coastal Environment
We often get asked what plants do well in a coastal situation. Having just returned from a week on the... View Article
Steel in the contemporary garden
The versatility of steel in a contemporary garden Few materials do more for a slick, contemporary feel in modern landscape design than... View Article
Garden Color in Winter and Spring
Amend your existing garden with color The most successful garden designs incorporate and make the best of their settings. Amending... View Article
Hot off the truck for mid-February!
It is true that our focus over here on the Scholls Ferry side hasn’t exactly been on plants lately, with... View Article