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Noble Root Edible & Ecological Gardens: Woman-owned. Design+Build. Plant+Coach.

Evergreen huckleberry has a lot going on before you even get to the berries. 🌿🫐 Vaccinium ovatum is a Pacific Coast nati...
10/23/2026

Evergreen huckleberry has a lot going on before you even get to the berries. 🌿🫐

Vaccinium ovatum is a Pacific Coast native and a member of the same genus as blueberries and cranberries. Its pale pink, urn-shaped flowers appear in spring, followed by berries that change from red to blue-black as they ripen in late summer. The small, glossy leaves remain through winter, giving the garden structure when many other plants have gone dormant.

It’s a great example of why we design for more than one moment of bloom. Flowers, fruit, foliage, structure, and seasonal change can all play different roles throughout the year.

10/21/2026

This is what we mean when we talk about creating a garden you can experience, not just admire. 🌿💚

After installation, this garden became a place to step outside and enjoy color, texture, fragrance, and seasonal change up close. The front garden, where the homeowners already loved spending time, now offers a more vibrant setting to sit, slow down, and watch the landscape evolve throughout the year.

There are little experiences woven throughout: noticing pollinators visiting the flowers, brushing past fragrant lavender and herbs, watching berries develop, and discovering which plants are emerging or blooming next.

Because the best part of a garden isn’t simply seeing the finished transformation. It’s living with it, learning from it, and finding new reasons to step outside every day. 🌸🐝

A garden can feel completely different without changing its entire footprint. 🌿✨ For this Portland project, we reimagine...
10/19/2026

A garden can feel completely different without changing its entire footprint. 🌿✨

For this Portland project, we reimagined existing front and backyard garden areas with a colorful, low-maintenance planting plan designed for seasonal interest and greater resilience during dry conditions. The backyard was also designed to feel more open and inviting, while the front garden, where the homeowners spend much of their outdoor time, became a more vibrant and welcoming space.

The new planting palette layers texture, color, and year-round interest with plants including kinnikinnick, blue blossom, red-flowering currant, Oregon stonecrop, evergreen huckleberry, blueberries, lavender, bee balm, and more.

The result shows how thoughtful plant selection can transform existing garden beds into a landscape that feels fresh, abundant, and full of personality. 💚

Camas tells a story much bigger than its beautiful blue-violet flowers. 💜 For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples of ...
10/16/2026

Camas tells a story much bigger than its beautiful blue-violet flowers. 💜

For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest have tended and harvested camas. Research in Oregon has found evidence of intentional harvesting of mature bulbs dating back more than 3,500 years. In the Willamette Valley, camas was particularly important to Kalapuyan peoples as food and part of a landscape actively cared for across generations.

Its ecology tells another story about patience. Camas thrives with spring moisture, blooms, sets seed, and then retreats underground as summer becomes dry. The plant may disappear from view, but its cycle continues.

A beautiful example of why rest in a garden is not the absence of life. It’s part of it. 🌱

10/14/2026

A garden isn’t just something you look at. It’s something you experience. 🌿

Now that this garden has had time to grow in, it has become a place to slow down, wander the pathways, notice what’s blooming, pick something edible, watch birds and pollinators move through the plants, or simply sit outside and enjoy being surrounded by life.

That was always part of the vision for this project: creating a landscape that could support habitat and biodiversity while also giving its owners more ways to live in and connect with their garden.

From blueberries, herbs, and a fig tree to layers of native and pollinator-friendly plants, there’s something to discover throughout the seasons.

Because a successful garden isn’t only about how it looks when the installation is finished. It’s about how it feels to live with it, watch it change, and enjoy it year after year. 💚

From lawn to a Pacific Northwest-inspired habitat garden. 🌿✨ For this completed project, the goal was to transform a tra...
10/12/2026

From lawn to a Pacific Northwest-inspired habitat garden. 🌿✨

For this completed project, the goal was to transform a traditional landscape into something more beautiful, useful, and alive. We removed most of the lawn and reimagined the space with native and habitat-supporting plants, edible elements, drought-tolerant choices, and inviting spaces to enjoy the garden.

The planting palette includes camas, nodding onion, Oregon grape, evergreen huckleberry, red-flowering currant, sword fern, snowberry, and checkermallow, creating layers of seasonal interest while supporting birds and pollinators. Edibles like blueberries, fig, rosemary, sage, chives, and thyme bring another layer of abundance to the garden.

The result is a garden designed for more than a single season: habitat, food, beauty, and everyday connection with nature. 💚

Nodding onion may be delicate in appearance, but it brings a lot to a habitat garden. 🌸 Allium cernuum is a North Americ...
10/09/2026

Nodding onion may be delicate in appearance, but it brings a lot to a habitat garden. 🌸

Allium cernuum is a North American native with distinctive downward-curving flower clusters that bloom in summer, attracting native bees, bumble bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. It thrives in well-drained conditions, requires relatively little water once established, and can slowly spread through seeds and bulblets.

And when flowering is over, we can let the plant complete its seasonal cycle rather than rushing to tidy everything away. Sometimes supporting a garden means giving it space to simply be. 🌿

From plan to future garden. 🌿 This landscape design was created to bring together beauty, habitat, food, and everyday fu...
10/07/2026

From plan to future garden. 🌿

This landscape design was created to bring together beauty, habitat, food, and everyday function. Layered native plantings will support birds and pollinators, while blueberries, culinary herbs, and other edible plants will bring food right into the landscape.

The design also creates more opportunities to enjoy the garden, with improved pathways, added privacy, and spaces designed to feel connected to nature and community.

For now, it’s all on paper, but we can’t wait to see this design come to life after installation later this year and look forward to sharing the results with you! 🌱✨

October is prime time to plant bulbs of all kinds! 🌱🌷Plant them now, enjoy the color later. Fall gives spring-flowering ...
10/05/2026

October is prime time to plant bulbs of all kinds! 🌱🌷

Plant them now, enjoy the color later. Fall gives spring-flowering bulbs time to establish roots before they emerge and bloom next year.

A few to get in the ground this season:
🌼 Daffodils
🌷 Tulips
💜 Crocus
🌿 Native camas (Camassia quamash)

And don’t forget the edible garden! October is also a great time to plant garlic, while onions and shallots can be part of your cool-season planting plans.

Planting now is an act of looking ahead. While the garden slows down above ground, bulbs are preparing below the surface for another season of growth. 🌱

This month, we’re celebrating one of our 1% for the Planet partners: Grow Portland. 🌱💚Grow Portland helps schools and co...
10/02/2026

This month, we’re celebrating one of our 1% for the Planet partners: Grow Portland. 🌱💚

Grow Portland helps schools and communities create hands-on garden experiences that connect people with food, nature, and each other. Through their Garden School program, thousands of Portland-area students get opportunities to learn outdoors, grow food, explore ecology, and experience the garden as a living classroom.

Their work is a beautiful reminder that planting a garden can have an impact far beyond a single growing season. When children learn how to care for soil, plants, food, and other living things, they’re also building relationships with the land that can continue to grow with them.

That feels especially meaningful in October, a season that reminds us to think about what we’re planting now for the future. 🌿

Through our 1% for the Planet commitment, we’re proud to support Grow Portland and their work helping the next generation experience, understand, and care for the natural world.

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401 NE 19th Avenue #200
Portland, OR
97232

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Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
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