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Garden design
Site survey, planting plans and full hardscape drawings. We design for your light, soil and the way you actually live outdoors.
- Concept & planting plans
- 3D layout & plant palette
- Lighting & irrigation design
Design from $2,400
Landscape design & build · Willamette Valley
Gardens that
grow with you
We design, build and care for living landscapes - from drought-wise plantings to stone terraces and shade trees that mature into something you'll never want to leave.
- 200+ gardens transformed
- 18 yrs rooted in the Valley
- 4.9★ from 340 reviews
A landscape isn't installed in a weekend - it's grown. Every Thornfield & Vale garden begins on paper, takes shape in soil and stone, and is tended through the seasons so it only gets better with age.
What we do
Design, build & maintain
Three crafts, one continuous relationship. Most clients start with a design and stay with us for the life of the garden.
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Build & planting
Our crews bring the drawing to life - terraces, paths, raised beds, water features and mature, well-rooted plantings installed to last.
- Stone patios & pathways
- Retaining walls & pergolas
- Tree, shrub & bed planting
Builds from $9,800
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Seasonal care
Scheduled visits keep your garden thriving - pruning, feeding, mulching and clean-ups timed to the season, not the calendar.
- Pruning & bed maintenance
- Lawn, feed & irrigation checks
- Spring & autumn clean-ups
Care from $180/mo
The transformation
Before & after
Drag the handle to reveal what a season of design and care can do. Real gardens, real Valley homes.
200+
Gardens transformed
42
Native species we plant
18
Years rooted locally
94%
Clients stay for care
Recent work
A garden portfolio
Click any photo to view it larger. A sample of plantings, paths and quiet corners we've built across the Valley.
How we work
A garden, through the seasons
Great landscapes follow the year. Here's how a Thornfield & Vale project unfolds from first walk-through to a garden that tends toward thriving.
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Spring
Listen & design
We walk the site, test the soil and study the light, then return with a planting plan and a clear, fixed quote.
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Summer
Build the bones
Hardscape first - paths, terraces and walls - then irrigation and the structural trees and hedges that frame the space.
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Autumn
Plant & bed in
The cool, damp season is when plants root best. We plant, mulch and set the garden up to establish over winter.
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Winter & on
Tend & grow
Seasonal care visits keep everything healthy and shapely, so each year the garden is fuller and finer than the last.
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Our roots
Tended by hand, since 2008
Thornfield & Vale began with one truck, a trailer and a belief that a garden should feel grown rather than installed. Eighteen years on, our crews still plant the way we started - by hand, with the patience the work deserves.
We're a small studio on purpose. You'll work directly with the people designing and building your garden, and the same hands tend it long after the last stone is set.
"We don't finish a garden. We start it, and then we help it grow."
Marcus ValeFounder & head gardener
Kind words
From the gardens we tend
Rated 4.9 out of 5 across 340 verified homeowner reviews.
★★★★★
They turned a weedy slope we'd given up on into the part of the house we live in most. Three years later the planting looks like it's always been there.
Eleanor Hawthorne
★★★★★
The design process alone was worth it - they understood how we'd actually use the yard. The stone terrace they built is flawless and the plant choices are spot on.
David Okafor
★★★★★
We kept them on for seasonal care and it's the best decision we made. The garden looks intentional in every month, not just spring.
Priya Raman
Start your garden
Request a quote
Tell us a little about your space and we'll arrange a walk-through. Most quotes are back with you inside three working days.