The Garden Specialists LLC

The Garden Specialists LLC Providing expert horticultural consulting, design, installation, and maintenance in Bend, Oregon for 11+ years. I'm also great at specialty pruning.
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Local, sustainable, eco-friendly, socially responsible, LGBTQ+ welcoming, woman owned ♀️
Oregon Landscape Contractor's License # 9646 Horticultural consulting, small scale design, installation and maintenance for residential and commercial clients. We specialize in perennials, native plants, wildlife gardens, specific color combinations, fragrance gardens, easy care/low maintenance, xeriscaping (l

ow water use) and year-round interest gardens. I pride myself on implementing "best practice" techniques for maintenance, division, plant choice, placement/design, and installation. Need advice or instruction? I love to provide one-time or ongoing garden consultation and/or coaching visits to identify plants and teach you the art of fine gardening: deadheading for prolonged bloom, plant division, pruning, and other garden tasks. Learn to do it right! I also offer custom garden maintenance calendars. We provide FINE GARDENING services, not typical "mow & blow" maintenance. What is"fine gardening"? Educated, skilled labor that is horticulturally-based with attention to detail. We practice the ART + SCIENCE of gardening: offering personalized service, implementing Best Practice techniques for plant health, maximizing bloom season, skilled plant choice, placement and design, installation, quality maintenance, pruning, and more. Read more here: https://www.finegardeners.com/blog/fine-gardeners-are-different-from-conventional-landscape-companies-brookline-needham-newton-ma

I grew up gardening and earned a Master's degree in Horticulture from Penn State specializing in native plants (I authored the Native Plant chapter for the award-winning Penn State Extension Master Gardener Manual: https://extension.psu.edu/master-gardener-manual) and have presented to Master Gardeners and garden clubs in PA, VA, NC. I'm also committed to continuing education and well-versed in Central Oregon native plants (took COCC course by Rick Martinson of Winter Creek Nursery and independent study for the past 14 years).

06/17/2026

Get to know your native plants with us! Presented by Claire Hafer of
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More information and free tickets available at bit.ly/knownativeplants

Our crew! Finishing up some installs today!
06/16/2026

Our crew! Finishing up some installs today!

😍 Client was very impressed with the 7 shrubs and 10 perennials we installed in her entry garden that are fire resistan...
06/13/2026

😍 Client was very impressed with the 7 shrubs and 10 perennials we installed in her entry garden that are fire resistant, low maintenance, feed pollinators and birds, and provide year-round beauty! Thanks Madras Garden Depot for the wonderful plants, as always!

Owner Claire Hafer has another educational presentation with Worthy Garden Club on June 24 from 6-7pm. Please share!
06/11/2026

Owner Claire Hafer has another educational presentation with Worthy Garden Club on June 24 from 6-7pm. Please share!

Great resource! June 13, 9am-1pm @ Hollinshead Park with Madras Garden Depot vending!
06/07/2026

Great resource! June 13, 9am-1pm @ Hollinshead Park with Madras Garden Depot vending!

A hands-on event focused on simple steps you can take at home to save water and create a beautiful landscape. Local experts, short workshops and live

06/06/2026

Hummingbird came to visit this gorgeous Blue Chill salvia

Madras Garden Depot plant sale pop-up at Pomegranate Home & Garden in Bend.
06/06/2026

Madras Garden Depot plant sale pop-up at Pomegranate Home & Garden in Bend.

Client is "ECSTATIC!" 🥰 Loves the design, the different "rooms," plant choices (preventing erosion, deer proof, low main...
06/05/2026

Client is "ECSTATIC!" 🥰 Loves the design, the different "rooms," plant choices (preventing erosion, deer proof, low maintenance, color, pollinators, low water). Wonderful client asked if she could take my picture with my masterpiece! 🥰 For some reason I can't add captions to the photos? First image is of the full sun garden that had row upon row of various plants which we rearranged into drifts of plants instead of rows. We also added a wider variety of plants (from Madras Garden Depot of course!), all of which are very deer resistant because Awbrey Butte has INTENSE deer pressure. Also using lots of native creeping oregon grape for soil stabilization and bees. 💛🐝 Plus tall Oregon grape for for screening.
The other photos show the beds after installation, including a shade bed with rhododendrons and hellebores. We added compost and mycorrhizae to the very dead, compacted soil for the plants that needed it. VERY excited to see how this fills in after Rexius takes care of the irrigation overhaul.

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Bend, OR
97701, 97702, 97703, 97707–97709

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5412136973

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