Portland landscape design - Seasons Garden Design Profile

VANESSA GARDNER NAGEL, APLD, NCIDQ, Owner of Seasons Garden Design LLC

works with people who want to add value to their life, their property, and their world - that's YOU.
designs landscapes and consults about all things garden to happy clients in the Portland OR Metro Region, Vancouver WA, and Southwest WA or anywhere else you can convince her to go.
likes to write and speak about gardens and design so much that you can find her musings in her blog and in a new book to be released by Timber Press this fall. (see Speaking and Writing)
won numerous design awards and practices sustainability as a designer, as a gardener, and as a conscientious human being.

learned about gardening as a hip-high youngster (is that a hipster?) alongside her grandfather in Minnesota. Now she carries a shovel and knows how to use it in her garden, Dragonfly Hollow.
has a Bachelor’s degree in interior design and worked as a commercial interior designer for West Coast and international design firms for over 20 years before she returned to her roots and founded Seasons Garden Design LLC.
brings her extensive experience, innovative solutions, and post-graduate landscape education to landscape design. (The interior design background is a bonus, covering important garden expertise in which very few landscape designers have training or experience.)

“She provided a very functional design within very tight time frames and budgetary constraints, in addition to incorporating an artistic ambience which has received many complimentary remarks.”
Michael, Portland, OR

	MEMBER OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS:
	certified member and Oregon Chapter's* 2009 President of APLD, (Association of Professional Landscape Designers) ANLD (Association of Northwest Landscape Designers) Hardy Plant Society of Oregon (HPSO). The Garden Writer's Association (GWA) She serves her community as a member of the City of Vancouver's Design Review Committee.
	MORE HISTORY...
◄►back	NCIDQ-certified (National Council of Interior Design Qualification) former HPSO Director prior adjunct faculty member at Marylhurst University and Portland Community College/Rock Creek past Oregon-chapter president of IIDA (International Interior Design Association) Vanessa takes community involvement seriously. Vanessa pops a Cistus from a can during a Habitat for Humanity installation- an APLD Oregon annual event. Click on the photo to see a larger version. Continuing education is important to every designer. Vanessa always exceeds the minimum required by APLD. Vanessa attended a designer's workshop taught by internationally renown, Robin Templar Williams. "Brilliant scheme", said Robin, about Vanessa's design. Click on the photo to see a larger version.

AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS

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March 2010, Costco Connection, featured in "Statuary Habits" by Laura Langston

January 2010, Our Riverside Arts and Crafts project received a Grand Prize award by WALP. The award went to the submitting contractor: Woody's Custom Landscaping.

January 21, 2010, The Oregonian, Featured in "Banish the Blahs" in the Home & Garden section

Autumn 2009, The Designer (APLD's Quarterly Publication)

October 2009, Featured in The Digger (OR Association of Nurseries Publication)

Winter 2009, The Designer

2008, Garden Gate Magazine, photos of Vanessa's garden in several issues

July/August 2007, Lawn & Landscape Magazine, cover photo & article in Designer Insert

June 2007, Member of the Month, Oregon APLD web-site

June 26, 2007, Los Altos Town Crier

May 2007, Member of the Month, National APLD web-site

January 2003 to July 2006, numerous articles, The Columbian

5/2006, dig Magazine

4/2006, Featured in Sunset Magazine

2005, Silver Medal award, 2005 Portland Home and Garden Show

2004, Award of Excellence, Landscape Design Competition, Sunset Magazine

2001, Hammurabi Award, Masonry and Tile Institute, Oregon chapter*

1999, Interior Design Citation Award, IIDA/AIA/ASID Oregon chapters*

1989, Honor Award, Redwood Empire AIA Chapter*

11/89, project featured in Architectural Record*
*projects awarded while employed by other firms

Seasons Garden Design LLC is an award-winning, sustainability-conscious, APLD-certified, landscape design firm in Portland OR and Vancouver WA.
Contact landscape designer and Timber Press author, Vanessa Nagel, APLD, today.

VANESSA GARDNER NAGEL, APLD, NCIDQ, Owner of Seasons Garden Design LLC

works with people who want to add value to their life, their property, and their world - that's YOU.

learned about gardening as a hip-high youngster (is that a hipster?) alongside her grandfather in Minnesota. Now she carries a shovel and knows how to use it in her garden, Dragonfly Hollow.

has a Bachelor’s degree in interior design and worked as a commercial interior designer for West Coast and international design firms for over 20 years before she returned to her roots and founded Seasons Garden Design LLC.

brings her extensive experience, innovative solutions, and post-graduate landscape education to landscape design. (The interior design background is a bonus, covering important garden expertise in which very few landscape designers have training or experience.)

Seasons Garden Design LLC is an award-winning, sustainability-conscious, APLD-certified, landscape design firm in Portland OR and Vancouver WA. Contact landscape designer and Timber Press author, Vanessa Nagel, APLD, today.

VANESSA GARDNER NAGEL, APLD, NCIDQ, Owner of Seasons Garden Design LLC

works with people who want to add value to their life, their property, and their world - that's YOU.

learned about gardening as a hip-high youngster (is that a hipster?) alongside her grandfather in Minnesota. Now she carries a shovel and knows how to use it in her garden, Dragonfly Hollow.

has a Bachelor’s degree in interior design and worked as a commercial interior designer for West Coast and international design firms for over 20 years before she returned to her roots and founded Seasons Garden Design LLC.

brings her extensive experience, innovative solutions, and post-graduate landscape education to landscape design. (The interior design background is a bonus, covering important garden expertise in which very few landscape designers have training or experience.)

Seasons Garden Design LLC is an award-winning, sustainability-conscious, APLD-certified, landscape design firm in Portland OR and Vancouver WA.
Contact landscape designer and Timber Press author, Vanessa Nagel, APLD, today.