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 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.
Garden News…
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...
Leaving the Leaves
Leave the leaves that fall into your garden! Why, you might ask? So many reasons! For one, they make excellent mulch and help protect your landscape and garden beds during winter rains and wind. They provide insulation and also help keep the weed populations down. ...
Summer-Fall-2019 Newsletter
Download our Summer/Fall 2019 Newsletter! Summer is winding down. We are staying busy with new clients and our ongoing landscapes. This summer a few of our long-time landscape projects have sold to new owners. We will miss these places that we spent many seasons...
Calendula: A Gift That Keeps On Giving
Beautiful Calendula: A prolific, cheery, yet humble plant, beloved by herbalists and gardeners alike. The root of the name calendula is the same as the word calendar, perhaps because it is a flower that brings joy almost year round. In the Pacific Northwest,...
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