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— Selected gardens · 2018 — 2026

One hundred and forty-two gardens, still growing.

A working portfolio of residential gardens we've designed and planted across Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties. Filter by scope, style, or year — every garden is photographed at maturity, not at install.

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No. 142
Planted 2024 · Photographed 2026

The Wren Garden — Kerns

Whole-yardNative & pollinator0.4 acreRain swale

A small Northeast Portland yard transformed into a four-season pollinator-first garden with native sedges, a permeable rain-garden swale, and a small fruit-tree espalier along the south fence. Soil was raised five inches with municipal compost over two seasons.

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No. 141
Planted 2024

Stoneway Cottage

Front + courtyard0.2 acreLow-water natives

A 1920s Mt Tabor cottage given a lush front yard with low-water natives and a dry creek bed pulling rainfall away from the foundation.

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No. 140
Planted 2023

The Hawthorn Plot

Whole-yard1.1 acreThree rooms

Suburban yard reimagined around an 80-year-old hawthorn — three garden rooms, a back meadow, and an oak-swale border.

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No. 139
Planted 2023

Goldenrod Mews

Garden roomSide yardPollinator only

A 30-foot-long side-yard converted into a tightly-curated pollinator strip with seven species selected for blooming sequence.

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No. 138
Planted 2022

Riverstone House

Whole-yardEdible garden0.5 acre

A productive backyard food garden with eight raised beds, three espaliered apples, and a small companion-flower border for pest balance.

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No. 137
Planted 2022

The Quincey Courtyard

Garden roomCourtyardInner-city

A 12×16-foot back-of-row courtyard reimagined as a year-round green refuge with a small water feature and ferns hand-collected from a Tomás-led trip.

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No. 136
Planted 2021

Cottonwood Bend

Whole-yard2.4 acreRiparian edge

A larger property whose yard ran into a riparian creek edge — we designed a graduated planting from cultivated front to wild native back.

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No. 135
Planted 2021

Aster Lane

Front yardPollinatorLawn replacement

One of our first lawn-to-meadow conversions in the city. Twenty-two species, three years of seasonal succession established now.

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Could your yard be No. 143?

The first conversation is on us. 45 minutes on your property — soil, slope, sun, what you've been thinking. Six site visits a week, March through October.