Portland landscape designer, Seasons Garden Design, creates sustainable gardens

	SEASONS GARDEN DESIGNLLC We cultivate value in your life, your property, and our world.

Pacific NW Native: Ribes sanguineum

"The world will not evolve past its current stage of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation." Albert Einstein

Seasons Garden Design recommends a sustainable approach to landscape design. The word 'sustainable' is ambiguous. Learn more about it below and why it is so important to our ecology, our way of life, and, particularly in our gardens here in Vancouver WA, Portland OR, and everywhere.

WHAT DOES SUSTAINABILITY MEAN?

More than recycling, it is an attitude that respects our relationship with the world in which we live to the extent that we do not destroy our environment. We leave our planet the way we found it...or better.
Considers everything we use from 'cradle to cradle'. This philosophy regards everything involved in the manufacture of products:

origin of product and components
sustainable and easily renewable products with minimized use of other resources
fuel expended in moving resources and products from place to place or product manufacturing
product life and its recyclability into the same product
recycling process

More than organic, which describes a way of growing plants
Limits our use of natural or nonrenewable resources, like water and fuel; using renewable resources

ARTSY 'JUNK'

old twig bench

mosaic table top

terra cotta column

laundry basket/moss planter

concrete pipe

recycled glass & ceramic tower

steel birdbath

GREEN LINKS

US Green Building Council

e
Sustainable Sites Initiative

Soil Builders, Inc.

EPA recycled product database

Oregon Tilth

Willamette Organics

Nature's Needs

Green Roofs for Healthy Cities

Friends of Trees

Plant Native

Native Plant Society of Oregon

Wild Ones

Cornell University Biological Control

SUSTAINABLE READING

Understanding Garden Design: The Complete Handbook for Aspiring Designers
Vanessa Gardner Nagel, APLD

Teaming With Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis

Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants
Douglas W. Tallamy

The Truth About Organic Gardening: Benefits, Drawbacks,
and the Bottom Line
Jeff Gilman

The American Meadow Garden: Creating a Natural Alternative to the Traditional Lawn
John Greenlee & Saxon Holt

Planting Green Roofs and
Living Walls
Noël Kingsbury and Nigel Dunnett

Rain Gardens: Managing Water Sustainably in the Garden and Designed Landscape
Nigel Dunnett and Andy Clayden

"We had better figure out a way to grow things in asphalt before we cover the world with it."
Rodger Swain

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
Oliver Wendall Holmes

"Look! Look! Look deep into nature and you will understand everything."
Albert Einstein