Garden design, build & carePortland, Oregon
Gardens that get better every year.
We design, build and look after gardens across Portland and the west side, with one team from the first sketch to the tenth spring.
- 480+gardens designed and built
- 14years in Portland
- 38people, all in-house
Selected work
Gardens we designed and built.
Laurelhurst, Portland · 2024
A basalt terrace, a fire bowl and a Japanese maple behind a 1912 house.
Investment$95,000 – $120,000
West Hills, Portland · 2023
Dry-stone basalt terraces that turned a hillside into three gardens.
Investment$180,000 – $220,000
Lake Oswego · 2024
Bluestone, deep borders and a path down to the dock.
Investment$150,000 – $180,000
Eastmoreland, Portland · 2023
A thirsty front lawn replaced by a pollinator meadow and a rain garden.
Investment$38,000 – $48,000
Sellwood, Portland · 2025
Cedar beds, espaliered pears and a potting shed where the patchy lawn was.
Investment$32,000 – $40,000
Dunthorpe · 2017, in our care since
Mossy steps, ferns and hellebores under old firs, cared for eight years.
Investment$110,000 – $130,000
Eastmoreland, PortlandFrom lawn to meadow
Services
What we do, and what it costs.
Garden design
A plan for the whole garden, drawn for how you live and how the site behaves.
From $2,800
Garden building
Stone, planting, water and light, built by our own crews.
Most gardens $45,000 – $250,000
Garden care
The team that planted it, back every season to keep it growing right.
From $260 a month
4.9 out of 5, from 210+ reviews on Google and Houzz
“They gave us a fixed price, a schedule and a Friday update every week, and they hit all three. The garden is the best thing we’ve done to the house.”
About
Started in 2011 with a truck and a level.
Fourteen years and almost five hundred gardens later, the same people who design your garden build it, and many of them still look after it.
Nora Hollis
Co-founder, design
Trained as a horticulturist and spent eight years in public gardens before drawing her first backyard.
Sam Moss
Co-founder, build
A stonemason’s son who runs the crews and still sets the first stone on every terrace.
Rosa Méndez
Garden care lead
A certified arborist who has looked after some of our gardens since the year they were planted.
Start with a walk around.
Tell us a little about the garden and what you’re hoping for. Nora or one of our designers will call within one business day to book a free visit.
- Studio
- 1830 SE 10th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97214
- Call
- (503) 555-0172
- Hours
- Studio open Monday – Friday, 8 am – 5 pm. Site visits by appointment.