This garden was for a family in an old Victorian home. They struggled with tough weeds like spear grass and the garden lacked any real defining beauty. We top worked and grafted an old ornamental cherry tree to become a fruit producing tree. We also established a beneficial understory meadow planting for an established Gary …
Pre-2020 Showcase #1: Native Butterfly Meadow and Edible Garden Read More
Here are a few pictures of small projects we have done this year. We usually like to showcase big projects on separates posts, but it made more sense to bundle up the smaller projects into a single post. 2020 has been a difficult year for everyone, including the workers at SymbiOp. At the same time, …
Happy New Year! Miscellaneous Edible Landscapes, Rain Gardens, and Nativescapes in 2020 Read More
We were very glad to work with this client, who believed in our mission and values. We turned all of the traditional lawns into a low maintenance native ecoscape integrated with vegetable beds. It was a blast to see the full transformation. Thank you for your business!
Tabor Commons is venue owned and operated by Southeast Uplift, a Portland non-profit with a mission to collaborate with the Southeast Portland community to build informed, inclusive, and participatory neighborhoods that support our social and ecological well-being. We are very glad to work with them because their mission aligns perfectly with SymbiOp’s mission. As usual, …
Bioswales, Food Forest, Medicine Garden, and Native Habitat at Tabor Commons Read More
This client wanted us to help them get the Backyard Habitat Certification, and we know exactly what to do! The site had grass lawns for their front and back yard. We sheet mulched some of the lawn and installed baby native woodland plants such as Ferns, Snowberries, Oregon grape, Wild Strawberries, Yarrow, Lupine, Oxalis, Wild …
Budding Native Woodland-scape with Mini-Stonehenge Borders in Woodstock Read More
For this client, we started to implement a bird and butterfly habitat garden. The goal was to create a tranquil sanctuary not just for the animals but also for the humans, so we had to strike a dynamic balance between order and disorder. For Phase One, planted Native Bunch Grasses, Yarrow, Oregon Stonecrop, Lupine, Butterfly …
Tranquil Bird and Butterfly Sanctuary Garden in Ardenwald – Phase One Read More
