Beaverton landscape designer near Portland offering a landscape design

Landscape design by Mario Vaden, near Beaverton & Portland

If you are ready to choose a landscape designer to prepare a design plan, please consider me for your landscaping preparation needs. The landscape designer service is available near Portland, Beaverton, Tigard, Sherwood, Wilsonville, Hillsboro and a few other Oregon towns. Looking for the questionnaire? It is here: Landscape design questionnaire worksheet .doc

Landscape designers are an excellent alternative to Landscape Architects, especially when experience is compared. Either option can provide education and experience, but the difference in the type of experience will be the most important part for your landscape design needs.

Portland, Oregon, area landscape designer and landscape contractor hand drawn landscape design plan

Four important skills must be embedded into your plan by the landscape designer, and these depend heavily on experience in the Portland area, and western Oregon:

1. Artistic ability
2. Mastery of pruning skills
3. Experience: hands-on
4. Education related to plants and soil

Usually, artistic ability needs minimal explanation: combining textures, contrasting colors or working with shapes. The mastery of pruning skills is rarely discussed regarding landscape designers, and is often what makes or breaks the longevity of a landscape design. With perennials, no big deal, but very important for big plants. Every shrub and tree in the landscape design has a different branch structure, rate of growth and mature landscape size. And a landscape designer must have extensive pruning experience to determine the limits for placement in the design. The overall plan and solutions depend on hands-on experience. Not office work, but substanial outdoor installation and maintenance experience. The exterior work will etch in mind the plants that are costly to maintain, or solutions to correct unique site conditions. Related education basically enhances and refines the final landscape design plan. If those four neccessary aspects interest you, call for appointment and estimate.

Please visit the the background page which condenses my experience from about 1980 to the present. And if the landscape project expense budget is important to you, don't miss the article I prepared: Landscape Designers can Make or Break the Budget

Thank you,

Mario Vaden



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