Welcome to the homepage for the website of JJ Sweeney, Landscape Designer. I specialize in creating gardens and landscapes that are organic, waterwise, lower maintenance, beautiful year 'round, and incorporate Pacific Northwest native plants with site-appropriate non-natives. I also specialize in helping clients determine what it is that they need and want, and then helping them to achieve it.

On each page you will find links to the other pages that further describe the areas in which I specialize, including some photos. Below you will find additional information, plus links to other websites that you may find valuable. If you have any questions or would like to schedule a consultation, please feel free to email me using the link at the bottom of each page. Thank you for visiting my site, and enjoy!

WHY HIRE A LANDSCAPE DESIGNER?

A professionally designed landscape can: *help prevent costly mistakes and save time, energy, and money *provide a blueprint that can be referred to over time if the installation must be done in stages *increase property value (by as much as 10-15%) and create a positive first impression *provide privacy, tranquility, and security, as well as a place to play, share, socialize and grow food *reduce heating and cooling costs *prevent erosion, conserve water, reduce pollutants, produce oxygen, and reduce noise levels *provide wildlife habitat *satisfy your aesthetic, functional, budgetary, time, energy, and spiritual needs In addition, no one knows plants better than a Landscape Designer, and the Designer can be your guide, coach and advocate throughout the process.

SERVICES PROVIDED ($80.00/hr, 2 hr minimum): DISCOUNT! Until the economy gets better, after the first two hours the price will drop to $75/hour.

*Consultation Only: elicits your tastes, preferences, ideas, and goals; provides problem-solving, ideas, and recommendations; can identify existing plants and answer questions about plants, soil, light, water, organic gardening methods, composting, maintenance issues, etc.; provides resources, referrals, written information and complimentary items. *Consultation Plus: Consultation, plus organizing, printing up and fleshing out (adding ideas and suggestions) of all consultation notes/discussion for client's continuing use; selected plant lists; may include rough sketch if appropriate. *On-Site Design: Client and Designer meet for an initial consultation; 2nd meeting Designer generates a rough plan and plant palette on-site and reviews with Client; subsequently Designer cleans up/tweaks design & provides plant list. Optional: Client & Designer go plant shopping together, Designer places plants, Client or Contractor plants. This only works for a relatively small space. *Plant Procurement: I will go to great lengths to get the right plant, can go to wholesale nurseries, have many resources, and can make appropriate substitutions if necessary *Plant Placement: can occur with or without a plan, for Do-it-Yourselfers or for a Contractor *Maintenance Schedules: a consultation about your existing landscape followed by a written schedule based on what needs to happen when, in YOUR landscape *Coaching: I can teach you to design your own garden, garden organically, prune appropriately, create habitat, etc. - if you want to know how to do it, just ask! FOR SMALL SPACES/PART OF LANDSCAPE ONLY: *Conceptual Plan: site analysis; before photos; accurately scaled basemap including existing features (structures, hardscaping, plants to be retained) and proposed new features and planting areas; presentation meeting before finalizing; design analysis which includes everything discussed at the initial consultation; plant lists; resources and information materials *General Plan: everything with the Conceptual Plan plus more specifics on plant placement, plant selection, and plant lists *Planting Plan: everything included with the Conceptual & General Plan plus full detail, most or all plants specifically identified, very specific plant lists, a purchasing list, and a post-receipt consultation *Oversight of all phases of installation, including communication with Contractors, plant procurement, and plant placement *AVAILABLE FOR TEACHING AND PRESENTING ON SEVERAL TOPICS, e.g.: Sustainable Landscaping Techniques, Lower Maintenance Landscaping, Landscaping for Year 'Round Beauty, Landscaping with Native Plants, Basics of Landscape Design, Organic Gardening, Naturescaping, Preparing the Soil, Watewise Landscaping, Seasonal Tasks, Best Plants for Specific Conditions/Sites, etc.

Hardy Plant Society	Berry Botanic Garden	Territorial Seed Co.

Ain't Spring Grand? The Old Homestead My front yard which, other than the Magnolia which I didn't plant but which is quite old, is very low maintenance and has something blooming about 10 months of the year.

Under the Magnolia New wonders everyday Under the Magnolia, foliage and flowers compete for attention, their beauty masking how tough these plants are. No garden should be without Hellebores, Brunneras and Daphnes.

Yearning for the Sun Parking strip beauties These tough puppies - Tulips, Golden Creeping Jenny, Blue Fescue, and various Sedums - need almost no supplemental water even in the hot Summer months. In fact, Tulips hate to be watered after they bloom and are great for parking strips, at the base of trees, on rock walls, in rock gardens, and anywhere you don't intend to water.

From earth to sky Even containers can't restrain Earths beauty One can grow essentially anything in containers. With large containers, a drip system and organic fertilzer every Spring, I have everything from trees to groundcovers - as well as edibles - growing in containers, some for 10 years.

Color color everywhere Delicate textures scramble over and under bolder ones I love playing with foliage textures. The flowers are just icing on the cake. Oh, but what a lovely cake it is!

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