Residential landscape design, native plantings, stonework, and year-round care. Small, thoughtful teams. Drawings you can understand. Plantings that belong here.
We do three things well, all season long. If your project is outside that, we'll refer you to someone we trust.
Full landscape master plans for residential yards of any size. Drawings you can actually read, plant lists sorted by bloom time, and phased budgets so you can build over seasons or all at once.
Our in-house crew of six builds what we design. Stonework, patios, raised beds, paths, water features, irrigation. No subcontracted surprises, no middlemen.
Year-round garden care for the gardens we build, and sometimes gardens we didn't. Monthly visits, seasonal clean-up, pruning, mulching, irrigation tuning, replanting.
Residential projects from the last two seasons across Portland, Lake Oswego, Hillsboro, and the Willamette Valley.
A backyard garden in Lake Oswego. Cedar pergola, bluestone patio, native plantings. Built over two seasons.
A low-water native meadow replacing a traditional front lawn. Drought-tolerant, pollinator-friendly, blooming year-round.
A Japanese-inspired entry courtyard in Southeast Portland. Moss, gravel, black pine, and a single hand-carved basin.
A three-bed cedar potager with gravel paths, drip irrigation, and a small espaliered pear. Tended seasonally.
A Willamette Valley property with a new pool, surrounded by drought-tolerant plantings and Douglas fir.
A 2-acre hillside planted entirely with Pacific Northwest natives. Low-water, wildfire-conscious, low-maintenance.
Meadowkeep was started in 2011 by Ian Ross, a landscape architect who left a larger Portland firm to work closer to the earth. Ian still walks every site and draws every master plan himself.
We're now six full-time people: Ian, two designers, and a three-person build crew led by Javier, our foreman since 2013. Everyone on the build crew is a full-time Meadowkeep employee — no day-labor subs.
We work on twelve to eighteen gardens a year. We're booked for the current season by early March. We don't advertise. If you're here, someone told you about us.
The rhythm hasn't changed in 14 years. It's why our projects come in on budget and on time.
Ian comes to your property for 60–90 minutes. We walk the site, talk about what you want, and within 48 hours you get a written estimate with realistic budget ranges for different scopes.
If we move forward, we produce a full master plan: planting lists, hardscape drawings, phase budgets. You review, we revise, you approve. Timeline: 4–6 weeks.
Our crew builds your garden on a committed timeline. Most residential projects are 2–8 weeks of on-site work. We keep you updated weekly. No surprise costs, ever.
Every new garden comes with 12 months of included care visits. We watch the plantings establish, adjust the irrigation, replace anything that doesn't take. No questions asked.
Ian walked our property, told us honestly what wouldn't survive here, and drew us a plan that still looks beautiful four years in. Every plant he chose has thrived.
We interviewed four landscape firms. Meadowkeep's was the only proposal that felt like it was designed for our specific house and climate, not pulled off a shelf.
They came in exactly on budget, finished three days early, and replaced two shrubs that didn't make it through their first winter — no charge, no drama. Real pros.
Most of our design + build projects fall between $25,000 and $150,000 depending on size and scope. We also take small design-only projects starting around $3,500, and we do tend-only work (garden care) starting at $350/month. We'll give you honest budget ranges on the first walk.
For design + build: typically 3–6 months ahead. The current season is usually booked by early March. For garden care: we can start most months with 2–3 weeks notice.
Rarely. We focus on residential gardens because that's where we do our best work. We occasionally take small commercial projects (restaurant patios, small office grounds) if they're a fit.
We serve the greater Portland metro, Willamette Valley, and select coastal towns. If you're more than 90 miles from our Southeast Portland shop, we'll let you know on the first call whether it's feasible.
Yes. We're a fully licensed Oregon Landscape Contractors Board firm (LCB #1249-A), bonded, and carry $2M in general liability insurance plus full workers' comp for every employee. Proof available on request.
Request a free on-site estimate. Ian will come out within 10 days and send you a written proposal within 48 hours of the visit. No pressure, no deposit, no obligation.
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