"Chris (Heart Springs Design) enabled us to reach our goals in creating a landscape that complimented our home and our building site." - Sisters Residents in Wildfire Prone Area

"Chris is particularly familiar with high desert landscaping and the vacation home need for low maintenance." - Vacation homeowners who love wildlife and native plants.

"I like the conceptual approach Chris uses. She was able to understand what we wanted and how it would relate to the home and site. As a result we have a fantastic design with so many interesting features: walking paths, color spots, restoration of the natural site, and a wonderful patio." - Delighted Tumalo Property Owners

"Chris added great value in the visual design and selection of appropriate plants. I have been very happy with her creative approach to my lot." - Experienced Gardeners new to Central Oregon

"We really value the cost savings of long-term maintenance for our office. The sustainable approach Chris uses ensures reduced maintenance costs with a healthy environmentally friendly landscape design that is beautiful, and water conserving." - Local Physicians Clinic

"We were amazed that our home sold for 30% more than any other comparable recent home sale in our neighborhood. The buyer stated that it was the appealing landscape that sold them on the home." - Semi-retired Couple in Eastside Neighborhood.

These are just a few of the comments from satisfied Heart Springs Clients. Heart Springs Design provides a process that ensures each client's unique needs and desires are met. Heart Springs Design uses time tested methods and over 20 years of experience to produce a truly unique regional landscape. We strive to design a landscape that incorporates sustainable approaches to the design layout and installation practices. This results in a landscape and irrigation plan that is truly responsive to the site, the client, and the environmental conditions (climate, wildfire, wildlife, and drought). The cohesion between all these elements creates a landscape that requires less input or intervention to maintain than traditional landscapes. The result is a landscape environment that is cost effective to maintain, comfortable, aesthetically appealing, and responsive to the local lifestyle and growing conditions.

Heart Springs Design uses a select group of skilled licensed landscape contractors, artisans, and craftspeople to achieve results that define a regional quality that sets us apart. The combined experience, skill and team focus ensures the landscape design is implemented with the highest level of quality installation resulting in greater customer satisfaction.

People who enjoy the outdoors flock to Central Oregon. With all the new people comes new construction, much of which encroaches into previously wild places. Nature has been a powerful force here, shaping forests and grasslands with wildfire, sculpting valleys with glaciers, forming mountains with volcanoes and plains with wind. The plants and animals have adapted to the long, cold winters and brief summers. Often, new residents are from milder climates where gardening was easier and efforts more fruitful. Heart Springs Design process shows Central Oregonians how to adapt to their new surroundings by making sound, informed landscaping choices that ensure a beautiful, environmentally responsive landscape that will thrive in our unique area.

Many new subdivisions have strict landscaping guidelines that must be met within 1 year of home completion. Many newcomers attempt to meet these landscape guidelines themselves, only to end up frustrated and defeated. The climate seems to defy much of the gardening experience and knowledge they have. The path of trial and error is expensive, time-consuming and frustrating, especially for busy people. Heart Springs Design saves you time and money by designing your landscape right the first time.