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Happy New Year! Miscellaneous Edible Landscapes, Rain Gardens, and Nativescapes in 2020

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, …

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Bioswales, Food Forest, Medicine Garden, and Native Habitat at Tabor Commons

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, …

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Budding Native Woodland-scape with Mini-Stonehenge Borders in Woodstock

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 …

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Tranquil Bird and Butterfly Sanctuary Garden in Ardenwald – Phase One

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 …

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Stormwater Management Facility Maintenance and Replanting at Fedex by Arbor Lodge – Phase One

This client reached out to us after frustrating experiences with other landscaping companies who don’t know the proper ways to maintain native bioswales / stormwater management facilities. They used aggressive landscaping methods that end up chopping off perfectly healthy native grasses in the basins, which eventually resulted in them dying in mass. Our expertise allowed …

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