2024 Landscape Design Ideas

2024 Landscape Design Ideas

Drake’s 7 Dees Landscape Design Guide

Drake’s 7 Dees Landscape Design Guide showcases a collection of unique projects. Inside, you’ll find plans, materials, and color palettes created specifically for Portland and Vancouver-area neighborhoods and mindsets. It is the product of over six decades of landscape design ideas and best practice construction in popular Portland neighborhoods – a must-read for anyone thinking of redoing or upgrading their landscape.

Get the download and be ready to get inspired! Then contact Drake’s 7 Dees to find out how we can transform your Portland landscape.

The West Slope Collection

Let the talented team at Drake’s 7 Dees transform your single-family backyard into a fresh and fun outdoor space that the whole family and neighborhood will enjoy. The sky is the limit with the West Slope collection. Possibilities include a hardy lawn with in-ground trampoline, a new patio with spa encircled by lush flowering plants. Easy to care for plants combined with traditional, no-fail perennials ensure a hassle free and stunning outdoor space that you will enjoy the whole year.

The Laurelhurst Collection

A sophisticated landscape design can have an enormous impact on the beauty and value of a home. The Laurelhurst Collection is tailored for those who are ready to take their property to the next level and make an investment that will truly grow and appreciate with time. Stunning water features, outdoor recreation spaces, high quality masonry and stunning plant combinations are just a few of the possibilities.

The Hawthorne Collection

There is a growing trend towards sustainable living and self-sufficiency. An increasing number of homeowners are interested in growing their own food, reducing their reliance on conventional energy sources and decreasing their family’s impact on the environment. Drake’s 7 Dees can help you create a landscape that combines these elements while also providing a fun and attractive outdoor living space. Beauty and function combine to create the Hawthorne Collection.

The Pearl Collection

Urban living has the benefit of being a stone’s throw from downtown but comes with limited outdoor space. Our Award Winning Pearl Collection showcases elegant solutions for small scale gardens. Bring nature and beauty to your property with creative hardscapes, containers, succulents, and vertical gardening. Create a relaxing refuge from the bustling city just outside. Read the full GRAY magazine feature editorial!

The Sellwood Collection

Throughout Portland you will find many architectural styles including Victorians, cottages, and many gorgeous Craftsman bungalows. We at Drake’s 7 Dees put the same passion and artistry that went into these architectural treasures and apply them to your outdoor space. Traditional yet unique, the Sellwood Collection uses select materials to create an inspiring and lasting garden that will never go out of style.

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A lifelong Oregon resident, Drake has been passionate about plants since childhood, beginning with propagating and growing flowers at his grandfather’s nursery. He opened Drake’s 7 Dees in 1974, while earning degrees in Business and Horticulture from Oregon State University. He later expanded into the design/build side of the industry, allowing him to combine his passion for plants with his love of family by maximizing the quality of family time spent outdoors.

Drake is co-founder of the Oregon Landscape Contractors Association and is a Landscape Industry Certified Manager (LICM)—a designation that less than two percent of landscapers have attained. Additionally, Drake serves on the Board of Directors for the Portland Japanese Gardens, widely regarded as one of the seven best Japanese gardens outside of Japan.

Drake is married to former Oregon Speaker of the House, Lynn Snodgrass. Together, he and Lynn received the Farm Bureau President’s award in 1999 for their service and dedication to agriculture in the state of Oregon. Drake and Lynn have two wonderful daughters, two talented son-in-laws, and seven grandchildren. In his spare time, Drake enjoys camping, water and snow skiing, reading, and of course, gardening.

Born and raised in the Portland Metro Area… Tim has had an appreciation for the outdoors from a young age.  Inspired by our local beauty ranging: the Mt Hood National Forest to salty, sea spray of Cannon Beach, the arid high-desert of Central Oregon to the rugged terrain of Steens Mountain – Tim sought higher education at the University of Idaho in their Landscape Architecture department.  Graduating with honors in 2004, he returned home to establish his professional career.

Now making his home in Sandy, Oregon – Tim and his wife [Nicole] are raising two happy and healthy kiddos and 4 fur-babies.  Between soccer, football, cheerleading, girl scouts and other extra-curricular activities… the Sellin family are heavily involved in their community and church family.  Since college, Tim has spent 13 of his 17 years with Drake’s 7 Dees and has ‘set roots’ in anticipation of long-term growth at the family-focused company.  Having spent his time away from Drake’s in a ‘boots on the ground’ capacity, Tim has fostered a love for the operational/production side of landscape business, as well as the design/sales.

His goal in life as well as business is to put others first.

Bachelor of Science Landscape Architecture, BSLA… 2009
California Polytechnic University, Pomona… Cum Laude
American Society of Landscape Architects – Honor Award

Steven has 15 years of experience in the residential landscape design/build and garden center industry, including 9 years with Drake’s 7 Dees. Steven also has experience working with the National Park Service in Yosemite on sub-alpine restoration projects, as well as volunteer experience as a Peace Corps Volunteer serving the community of Zaouiat d’Ifrane in Morocco.

Together, Steven and his wife Anna have four lovely children, all 5 years old and under! In his (very limited) spare time, Steven enjoys camping, hiking, archery hunting, and cooking. Steven’s passion for his work lies in helping others, through design to envision a more beautiful space that, once built, becomes a reality that improves their quality of life.