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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New Beginnings
Happy in the garden
Finally, a rainy Sunday in the Willamette Valley
Rhodie What do two Willamette Valley garden designers do on a quiet Sunday? We drive south to visit the Rare Plant Research Facility outside of Oregon City of course! https://www.rareplantresearch.com. A beautiful Oregon mist, rolling green hills, holstein cows, and...
Quote for today
Observer! "When we speak of Nature it is wrong to forget that we are ourselves a part of Nature. We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky, or a thought, because we tooter linked to the entire universe." --...
Springtime joy
I found that these quotes over the past six months brought me great joy and soothed my winter doldrums. "Plants are social, they always put themselves in clusters and groups, never in straight rows." Ann Lovejoy Lovejoy's Organic Design Gardening book is full of wise,...
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