Thursday, May 1
Garden School:
Landscaping with Organic Edibles - Carl Grimm, Metro
Learn how to integrate edibles into your garden, with inspiration and techniques from gardeners the world over.
Metro Building, 600 NE Grand Ave, Portland. Directions
6:30-8:30 p.m.
$5. Registration limited to 30.
Registration for this workshop is now closed.
May 6-16
HPSO Garden Tour:
Gardens of Southwest England
Cornwall & Tresco Abbey in the Scilly Isles with intrepid leader Bruce Wakefield, President of HPSO! Visit the beautiful sub-tropical gardens of Cornwall, Devon and Dorset at their springtime peak; the Lost Gardens of Heligan; the Lutyens-Jekyll masterpiece at Hestercombe; Castle Drogo, the last castle built in England; Harold Peto's Italianate garden, Iford Manor; pre-historic Stonehenge; the beautiful city of Bath and the cathedral city of Wells. Top it all off with a helicopter trip to Tresco Abbey in the Isles of Scilly. Such riches! A garden tour of a lifetime! See the itinerary page for dates and gardens. Download tour flyer for complete details and registration form. Contact the office for more information. This tour is now filled.
Saturday, May 17
Spring Lecture Program:
Making More Plants: Adventures in Horticulture
Nationally known garden expert Ken Druse is an award-winning photographer and author of the best-selling Natural Garden series of books - The Natural Garden, The Natural Shade Garden, The Natural Habitat Garden - and The Collector's Garden. He contributes both articles and photographs to a wide array of gardening magazines and is the gardens editor of House Beautiful magazine. In this lecture he presents innovative and practical techniques for expanding your plant collection. Learning how to propagate your own plants is a path to plant insurance and also to gift-giving. When you propagate your own plants, you experience the thrill of nurturing plants from practically nothing, and learn to grow your garden collection. More about Ken Druse. For more information and a map, Download program flyer.
Benson High School, Portland Directions
Program begins at 9 a.m.
Doors open at 8 a.m. for plant, book and seed sales
$15 for HPSO members, $20 nonmembers. Register online.
May 31-June 5
HPSO Garden Tour:
Gardens of Philadelphia & Beyond
Late spring in this hub of horticulture and cutting edge design with leaders Nancy Goldman, Lauren Hall-Behrens and Lucy Hardiman! Late spring is the optimum time to view the estates and gardens included in this tour, such as Chanticleer, Scott Arboretum and Longwood Gardens. Download tour flyer for complete details and registration form. Contact the office for more information. Tour is filling quickly.
Wednesday, May 28
Board Meeting
HPSO Office
1930 NW Lovejoy Street, Portland OR 97209
(Location Map)
7-9:30 p.m.
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