Events

Kokedama is the Japanese art form of growing plants in a moss-covered ball of soil wrapped with string. Hung by a window, or artfully displayed on a table top, these beatiful creations will transform an otherwise ordinarly housplant into a work of art!

All the tools and supplies needed to create a beautiful Kokedamas as well as instructions on how to keep our creations happy and healthy for years to come.

Blooming Junction
35105 NW Zion Church Rd.
Cornelius, OR 97113

Capture the essence of Springtime in our Spring Bulb Dish Garden Workshop. Combine bulbs in various stages of bloom with textural ferns and moss to create your ideal snapshot of spring. These miniature woodland landscapes can be kept indoors or out. Watch them grow and change, enlivening your tabletops with an early glimpse of spring. Pre-registration is required; $49 class fee covers materials used during the workshop.

Dennis’ 7 Dees Bridgeport Village Plant Shop
7325 SW Bridgeport Rd.
Portland, OR 97224

Capture the essence of Springtime in our Spring Bulb Dish Garden Workshop. Combine bulbs in various stages of bloom with textural ferns and moss to create your ideal snapshot of spring. These miniature woodland landscapes can be kept indoors or out. Watch them grow and change, enlivening your tabletops with an early glimpse of spring. Pre-registration is required; $49 class fee covers materials used during the workshop.

Dennis’ 7 Dees Seaside Garden Center
84794 US-101
Seaside, OR 97138

Capture the essence of Springtime in our Spring Bulb Dish Garden Workshop. Combine bulbs in various stages of bloom with textural ferns and moss to create your ideal snapshot of spring. These miniature woodland landscapes can be kept indoors or out. Watch them grow and change, enlivening your tabletops with an early glimpse of spring. Pre-registration is required; $49 class fee covers materials used during the workshop.

Dennis’ 7 Dees Lake Oswego Garden Center
1090 McVey Ave.
Lake Oswego, OR 97034

Register today for one of these Desert Dish Garden Workshops! Combine colorful succulents and cacti to create one-of-a-kind, long-lasting container gardens to brighten up your home this season.

Dennis’ 7 Dees Bridgeport Village Plant Shop
7325 SW Bridgeport Rd.
Portland, OR 97224

Free webinar
Fresh berries from Oregon’s Willamette Valley are delicious and easy to grow. Among our famous cane berries are: Marionberry, Boysenberry, Loganberry, and raspberry. This class will share best practices worked out through years of research by Oregon State University scientists. Beginning with how to choose among different types suitable for garden cultivation, we introduce terminologies to familiarize you with the world of berries! 

The Environmental Learning Center at Clackamas Community College is once again offering a free series of Zoom classes on wildlife-and-water-friendly gardens.

Back by popular demand, this series will provide tips on how to garden with less water, manage too much stormwater, and generally provide a healthier habitat for birds, pollinating insects, and more. Each week, a different expert presenter will share their experience, stories, and best practices. There will be plenty of time for discussion, so questions are encouraged.

Register today for one of these Desert Dish Garden Workshops! Combine colorful succulents and cacti to create one-of-a-kind, long-lasting container gardens to brighten up your home this season.

Dennis’ 7 Dees Cedar Hills Garden Center
10455 SW Butner Rd.
Portland, OR 97225

Have you been dissatisfied with the Roses you've grown in the past, or have never considered growing Roses?  If so, this class is for you! Ron will be sharing his knowledge on pre-Spring pruning, planting bare-root Roses, deadheading, and tips on how to keep your roses disease and pest free!

Blooming Junction
35105 NW Zion Church Rd.
Cornelius, OR 97113

This class is the first of three sessions on tomatoes. The first session focuses on variety selection and seed starting. Session 2 (3/29) will cover buying a good tomato start and what to do with it before the soil warms up. Session 3 (5/3) will cover planting out into the garden or container, supporting plants of various sizes, cultural practices (watering, fertilizing, pruning, etc.), and disease management.

East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District will host a free Landscaping for Wildlife workshop at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 22, 2023. It will take place over Zoom. When it comes to attracting beneficial wildlife to an outdoor space, it’s all about food, water, and shelter. This workshop will provide a broad and brief overview of Naturescaping concepts, and then dive into simple and creative ideas for transforming any space into somewhere birds, butterflies, bugs and more will want to come flocking. From plant shapes, colors, and bloom times to water features and tiny homes for bugs, there will be many inventive ideas for attracting local wildlife. Advance registration is required.

Virtual Talk -Darrel Morrison
The Garden Conservancy
For more than six decades, Darrel Morrison has drawn inspiration from the varied landscapes of his life—from the Iowa prairie, to Texas prickly pear scrub, to the maple-beech-hemlock forests of Door County, Wisconsin, to the banks of the Oconee River in Piedmont, Georgia. He has been guided as well by the teachings of Jens Jensen, who believed that we can not successfully copy nature but can get a theme from it and use key species to evoke that essential feeling. In native plant gardens at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum, New York Botanical Garden, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Morrison has blended communities of native plants in distillations of prairie, woodland, and coastal meadow. At Storm King Art Center, his landscapes capture the essence of prairie grasslands and native meadows. These ever-evolving compositions were designed to reintroduce diversity, natural processes, and naturally occurring patterns—the “beauty of the wild”—into the landscape.

The Environmental Learning Center at Clackamas Community College is once again offering a free series of Zoom classes on wildlife-and-water-friendly gardens.

Back by popular demand, this series will provide tips on how to garden with less water, manage too much stormwater, and generally provide a healthier habitat for birds, pollinating insects, and more. Each week, a different expert presenter will share their experience, stories, and best practices. There will be plenty of time for discussion, so questions are encouraged.

There's nothing like growing your own fruit! Learn the skills you need to make your fruiting trees productive for years to come. Topics include pruning, pollination, pest and disease prevention and fertilization.

Blooming Junction
35105 NW Zion Church Rd.
Cornelius, OR 97113

Get ready for spring with Vancouver Rose Society. Rose experts will be answering questions and demonstrating proper rose pruning techniques.

Get ready for spring with Portland Rose Society. Rose experts will be answering questions and demonstrating proper rose pruning techniques. Bring your hand pruners to be sharpened while you shop and a 1-cup sealed bag of garden soil (label with email + phone number) for free pH testing!

Join us for a drop-in style class to make your own candle.

The Environmental Learning Center at Clackamas Community College is once again offering a free series of Zoom classes on wildlife-and-water-friendly gardens.

Back by popular demand, this series will provide tips on how to garden with less water, manage too much stormwater, and generally provide a healthier habitat for birds, pollinating insects, and more. Each week, a different expert presenter will share their experience, stories, and best practices. There will be plenty of time for discussion, so questions are encouraged.

It’s time to start planning your summer garden! We’ll cover starting seeds indoors, planning your garden layout, when to direct sow and transplant vegetables, herbs and more!

Blooming Junction
35105 NW Zion Church Rd.
Cornelius, OR 97113

Get ready for spring with Portland Rose Society! Rose experts will be answering questions and demonstrating proper rose pruning techniques. Bring your hand pruners to be sharpened while you shop and a 1-cup sealed bag of garden soil (label with email + phone number) for free pH testing!

The annual tradition, where specialty growers give fun presentations on interesting and unusual plants, will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 5 at Lake Oswego High School Auditorium, 2501 Country Club Road, Lake Oswego, Oregon. Doors will open at 1 p.m. and those interested should line up ahead of time to be assured of a seat. The auditorium seats 640. That’s a little more than the prior venue, which seated 500 and was always full. Admission is free. Participants get a goody bag that includes a FREE Retail Nurseries and Garden Centers Map, courtesy of Plant Something Oregon and the Oregon Association of Nurseries.