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Canby, Oregon

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Patricia Thompson has over 20 years of garden design experience. Please call or e-mail for credentials and fee scales.

In my 'decades of decadence', I want to continue designing special gardens for special people. My specialties include perennial borders natural gardens, shade gardens, birdscape, xerisape, and 'spotscape'. Informal and soft are my tendencies, but I have also created formal garden areas and wild bold designs.

There are several approaches to accomplishing a garden design that makes it affordable to garden owners. Sometimes I work simply from a 'plant palette', like painting, so a typical drawing is not necessary. Other times I have my clients do the initial measuring and roughing the site plan, which saves quite a bit (I developed an instruction packet on how to do this)

However you choose to design your garden...start by collecting information:

Collect magazine clippings &  pictures you like.

Take photos of gardens you admire.

Make lists of plants you love and would like to see in your garden.

Write down things you hate too, this is also helpful to the designer!

The greater the detail, the more 'custom tailored' your garden will be!

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