Harnessing the power of native plants
Native Plantscapes Northwest (NPNW) is a family-owned business founded in 2016. Its dedicated staff share a passion for enhancing and preserving the natural environment. NPNW provides knowledgeable, reliable, and cost-effective habitat restoration services, including weed and invasive species removal, seeding, planting, site maintenance, site planning, and project management.
NPNW exclusively utilizes native plants, and their nursery grows a variety of plant species indigenous to the region, including trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants for wetlands, ponds, lakes, forests and native prairies. These plants come from a range of habitats, including Southern Oregon, the Willamette Valley, the Columbia River Gorge and the valley of Western Washington.
The demand for native plant landscapes—for both the beauty and benefits they provide—has grown in recent years as landowners respond to climate change and the effects of urbanization. NPNW works with government agencies, nonprofits, homeowner associations, churches and private landowners on habitat restoration projects connecting people and nature. They have helped to enhance and restore a variety of landscapes and habitats, from private properties to wetlands, prairies, and riparian areas.
“Natural areas are really valued not only by the agencies that are working in this field, but also by the taxpayers and ratepayers. They own this work. The Backyard Habitat program is just thriving. There’s just a greater level of interest and education among the public. ”
In addition to their on-the-ground landscaping efforts, NPNW provides critical communication tools to help their clients interface with the public, including before and after renderings of projects that demonstrate how these projects maximize the beauty and benefit for the natural world.
As Oregon’s climate change trends toward increasingly hot, dry summers, NPNW is committed to remaining responsive to habitat needs, seeking out and cultivating native, climate-adapted plants that will thrive in the ecosystems of tomorrow.
