Garden Design
Common Sense Gardens offers a full range of services for landscape and garden design including urban, suburban, and rural landscapes, and edible foodscapes for home or work environments.
Garden Coaching
Have you always wanted to design a home garden or sustainable landscape? We really can help you get started, through a mentoring and coaching process. Learn more.
Garden-based Education
Learn about Garden-based education which focuses on sustainable garden and landscape designs. Learn about community food systems and local food security.
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Forest Web
More to come... Forest gardening and working with light and dark places in our gardens.
Seed Gathering
Seed (and plant) gathering, collecting, purchasing As we gather ourselves during wintertime, it is a good time to focus on seeds. This is the time to inventory the seeds we have. And, to think about seed collection and gathering from what we grow. Some seeds are...
February sunshine…
“Our gardens become an intimate reflection of who we are. The flowers we choose are a sign of our natures, whether romantic or more practical. Our trees are a subconscious symbol of immortality. The formality of the landscape may indicate our need to control, and a...
A Winter’s Musing
The illustrious Shiloh Ayala shares these beautiful thoughts on winter. Sit back with a hot cup of tea and enjoy these warm words of wisdom. As the trees bare their arms to the winter, we throw layers over our delicate bodies. Over some odd years of following...
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