- Native Plants, Fruit Trees
- Veggie Starts, Seeds
- Soil, Tools, House Plants
- Climate-wise Plants
- Chicken Feed, Gift Shop
- Food Forest, Garden Bed
- Native Ecoscape, Ecolawn
- Rain Garden, Stormwater Facility
- Regenerative, Permaculture
- Residential, Commercial
We are a worker-owned cooperative. Our team has decades of experience. We aim to be a one-stop shop for all your ecological gardening, homesteading, and landscaping needs, for residential, commercial, and public land.
Our slogan is “For People and Planet“, which reflects our triple-bottom-line mission. This means we strive to create social and ecological benefits as much as, or more than financial benefit. Click here to learn more about us.
We use the Regenerative Ecological Paradigm to ensure our landscaping, retail, and internal operations align with our mission. Click here to learn what that means, and why it’s better than sustainable or organic practice.
Garden Shop Hours, Address, Etc.
All Week: 10 am – 6 pm
3454 SE Powell Blvd, Portland, OR
(503) 893-8427
Instagram @symbiopgardenshop
Latest Blog / Portfolio
Gardening Tips and Landscape Portfolio
Food Forest / Edible Garden Starter Packs for the Pacific Northwest
The last few years have been marked by the single largest increase in gardening within our lifetimes. As more people stayed at home, they found ways to transform their living spaces into home grown food. Even with people returning to the office and schools, many are still maintaining their gardens, whether that’s in their yards,…
Native Yard Starter Packs for Willamette Valley Wildlife
Hey plant people of Portland, Oregon! We’ve got a question for you: Do you want to create a yard that will attract more butterflies, bees, birds, and other wildlife? If your answer is yes, you are not alone! In 2022, 1 in 3 US adults bought plants specifically to help wildlife. A significant increase from…
Native Ecoscape Installation & Maintenance at Sabin CDC, a Portland Nonprofit
As a value driven company, serving community causes is a built into the framework of SymbiOp. One Friday a month, our garden shop donates 10% of sales to a local nonprofit, such as the Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA) and Afro Village PDX, and on July 29th we will be supporting Wild Diversity….
A national magazine, Garden Center, ran a great story about SymbiOp!
SymbiOp arose from a one-person landscaping company with more clients than it could handle when COVID-19 hit. Expansion dreams weren’t new, but the timeline was. As the co-founders watched friends lose jobs during the pandemic, informal talks became business plans. And with that, SymbiOp, a worker-owned ecological landscaping cooperative focused on regenerative practices, was born…….
SymbiOp got covered by The Oregonian, the largest newspaper in Oregon!
Sustainable, organic farming has been the standard practice of nature-conscious gardeners for decades.But there’s a new/old approach to landscaping and gardening in town, and it has a just-opened home on Powell Boulevard in Southeast Portland.Regenerative ecological gardening, which takes the sustainable mantra of “do no harm” and advances it to “do no harm and also…
Indigenous Friday Fundraiser for NAYA Instead of Black Friday on Nov 26, 2021
November is Native American Heritage Month. Ditch Black Friday and join SymbiOp Garden Shop, a worker-owned ecological garden shop, to fundraise for the Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA) on Nov 26. 10% of the total sales will be donated to NAYA. SymbiOp is the largest eco gift shop and eco plant shop in…