SEASONS GARDEN DESIGN

SEASONS GARDEN DESIGNLLC

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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 important in everything we do, particularly in our gardens, here in Portland OR, Vancouver WA, 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:
    • product and components of product origin
    • sustainable and easily renewable without the use of considerable other resources
    • fuel expended in moving product from place to place or its 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 resources, like water and fuel; use of renewable resources

ARTSY JUNK

The Fern Bench
old twig bench

Mosaic-covered table top
mosaic table top

Terra cotta column in snow
terra cotta column

Laundry cart turned moss planter
laundry basket/moss planter

Red gazing ball atop concrete pipe
concrete pipe

Remy's memorial recycled glass & ceramic tower
recycled glass & ceramic tower

Steel birdbath from Cracked Pots
steel birdbath

GREEN LINKS

USGBC logo
US Green Building Council

Sustainable Sites Initiativee
Sustainable Sites Initiative

Soil Builders, Inc. logo
Soil Builders, Inc.

EPA Seal logo
EPA recycled product database

Oregon Tilth
Oregon Tilth

Willamette Organics
Willamette Organics

Nature's Needs
Nature's Needs

Green Roofs for Healthy Cities
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities

Friends of Trees
Friends of Trees

Plant Native
Plant Native

Native Plant Society of Oregon
Native Plant Society of Oregon

Wild Ones
Wild Ones

Cornell University Biological Control
Cornell University Biological Control

Williams Landscape Lighting
Williams Landscape Lighting

SUSTAINABLE READING

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

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

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

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

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

Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls
Planting Green Roofs and
Living Walls
Noël Kingsbury and Nigel Dunnett

Rain Gardens
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

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