Landscape Services Garden Center
Check out these other Web sites for more help with your gardening and landscaping needs.

Affiliates:

John Deere Credit
Need help in purchasing your dream landscape? John Deere can help out!

Collier Arbor Care
Since 1937, family owned Collier Arbor Care has provided professional, personalized tree, shrub and lawn care services to the Portland, Oregon metro area.

Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity. Drake's supports this wonderful organization and hopes you will too!

The Oregon Association of Nurseries
The Oregon nurserymen's resource.

American Rhododendron Society
An organization for Rhodie lovers.

All irrigation systems installed by Drake's are constructed with top quality Rain Bird parts. You can also use this site to find replacement parts for your system.

Professional Landcare Network is the landscape industry's major trade organization. PLANET members, like Drake's, are a unique blend of landscape maintenance, installation, and design/build contractors and interior landscape firms.

Plant Websites:

View Plant Photographs
Wondering what the plants in your new landscape design look like?

Monrovia Plant Search
Find the proper plant for that difficult spot in your yard.

Blooming Advantage
A great local grower that specializes in perennials, groundcovers, shrubs, ornamental grasses and herbs. Visit their website to utilize its' Plant Finder feature.

Places to Visit:

Take a tour! The Oregon Garden is a marvelous place to spend a morning or afternoon.

Visit a Portland Park
Attend a class, take a walk, learn about urban forestry, volunteer!

The Berry Botanic Garden began as the personal collection of a remarkable plantswoman, Rae Selling Berry (1881-1976). We maintain and expand this extraordinary landscape in the service of education, conservation and horticulture.

A year-round wonder, the Portland Classical Chinese Garden is an authentically built Ming Dynasty style garden.

Portland Japanese Garden
Located near downtown Portland, this garden's areas include a strolling pond garden, a tea garden, and a sand and stone garden.

Informative Websites:

Lawn Care tips for a dry year.

Become a Master Gardener
Master Gardener volunteers expand Oregon State University's ability to reach and assist the citizens of Oregon.

www.kidsgardening.com is a wonderful resource for parents and teachers to get kids excited about gardening!

Gardening For Kids
Links to all kinds of fun sites just for the kids.

Learn some simple ways to conserve water! There are so many ways to conserve--both indoor and outdoor. ConserveH2o.org provides easy ways to save water.