Common Sense Gardens Services
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. Learn more.
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. Learn more.
Backyard Habitat
Perhaps you’ve seen those signs around your neighborhood in beautiful, lush gardens proudly proclaimed as Certified Backyard Habitat. And you’ve thought, “Hey, I love nature! Learn more.
Garden Maintenance
Working with eclectic teams of gardeners – tree experts, landscaping specialists, horticulturalists, and permaculturists, each landscape project requires different sets of garden knowledge. Learn more.
Permaculture Gardening
The program started in 2007 to manage invasive plant species and has expanded in the Portland Metro area to include over 670 acres across 3000 properties. Learn more.
Garden News…
A Walk Through Gaia’s Garden.
by Hannae Pavlick Hannae has interned with Common Sense Gardens since June, 2021. She brings a strong organic gardening background and interest in learning more about permaculture. This is a book review of Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway. Long after finishing this...
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." --...
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