Our Mission Statement:
The Garden Angels create beautiful gardens and landscapes which are affordable and healthy for the environment through quality design, consultation, construction and aftercare services.
Your garden can be part of a healthy environment as well !
With our designs using native plant species, you:
• Create a more peaceful & beautiful natural environment
• Conserve water
• Attract birds and butterflies
• Control erosion and stabilize slopes
• Decrease weekly maintenance activity
• Decrease chemical and fertilizer use
Call us today to get started !
Liz Frances
President & Landscape Designer
Liz Frances is a landscape designer, licensed landscape
contractor, and owner of The Garden Angels, an independent landscape
design, project management & contracting firm. Liz has been in the
construction and green industries for over 17 years, and has
extensive experience in applied ornamental horticulture and
landscape design. Her company was formed in 1994. As an independent
landscape designer, Liz specializes in custom residential projects
that are affordable and healthy for the environment.
Her signature designs share a “formal-informality,” with a special
emphasis on outdoor livability. She loves to incorporate garden
structures, hardscaping and plant collections in her designs,
bringing out the sensual pleasures of gardens through fragrance,
vibrant color, and texture. She stresses sustainable landscaping
techniques, often layering native plant material into her urban
planting designs. Her firm, The Garden Angels, offers
“bumper-to-bumper” service, consulting and carrying projects from
conceptual design through construction, and into the development of
sustainable landscape maintenance practices. She often includes the
use of native species and old-fashioned hardy ornamental plants in
her garden designs.
Liz has developed a specialized interest in sustainable landscape
design strategies. She is LEED certified (Leadership in Energy &
Environmental Design). Today, most of her landscapes engage
“xeriscaping” or water-wise landscape plant material and
installation technologies. In terms of commercial projects, Liz has
a body of work demonstrating “wet-scapes” for landscape projects in
riparian (riverside) corridors, vegetated stormwater drainage
systems, and wetland restoration areas. Liz has a particular
interest in the use of native plant materials to help clean polluted
stormwater and soils; and in making those areas beautiful and
inviting for us all.
In her spare time, Liz is an active volunteer in the Salem area. She
volunteers her time with her church community, the Salem Audubon
Society and Habitat for Humanity. She was one of the founders and
has been chairperson for the Watershed Enhancement Team (the Pringle
WET Project); and participates on a variety of local boards and
commissions
The Garden Angels
910 Madrona Ave SE • PO Box 3313 • Salem, OR 97302
503-581-5356 • 877-408-1100 • Fax 503-371-0794
Oregon LCB # 7243 • Contractor's License #14025
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