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…
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,...
Help the bees stay hydrated this summer!
(Water is Life.) Our summers keep getting hotter every year and just like us humans, most creatures need to stay hydrated to stay alive. If you already put out a bowl of water for your pets, birds or other wildlife, its easy to adapt these to accommodate our...
Our Spring 2019 Newsletter
Check out our Spring 2019 Newsletter. We have photos from our work this spring, features on our landscapers and interns and articles on buying a tree and building rain gardens.
Choosing Trees For Your Landscape
Ahhh, Spring has fully sprung, we’ve even had a couple of hot summer-like days already, here in Portland. If you’ve been thinking about getting a tree for your landscape, now is the time to do it. Timing is important because trees planted too close to the dry summer...
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