Clark County’s Composter Recycler program is offering a series of free online workshops about composting and sustainable living strategies. The eight-part series will teach participants how to reduce their impact […]
Portland Japanese Garden's first art exhibition of 2023, "Subtle Intimacy: Here and There," features the work of Japan Institute’s Artist-in-Residence, Rui Sasaki. Hailed as a “glass virtuoso” by The New York Times, Sasaki traveled from her native Japan to collect plant life from Portland Japanese Garden to create a site-specific experience: Transparent impressions of the […]
Greater Portland Iris Society's Iris Floral Show is noon to 4 p.m. May 27 at Clackamas Community Club, 15711 S.E. 90th Ave., Clackamas. Admission is free. This is an An American Iris Society sanctioned and judged floral show. Attendees can wee the many different varieties of irises that can be grown in the Pacific Northwest. […]
Clark County’s Composter Recycler program is offering a series of free online workshops about composting and sustainable living strategies. The eight-part series will teach participants how to reduce their impact on the planet through composting, green cleaning, recycling, food waste prevention, and low waste living. The final session will be held 7 to 8 p.m. […]
The next general membership meeting of the Fort Vancouver Rose Society is 7 to 9 p.m. June 1 at St. Luke's-San Lucas Episcopal Church, 426 E. Fourth Plain Blvd., Vancouver. The public is welcome at every meeting. The June meeting will feature more news on the upcoming 2023 Rose Show on June 24 from 1 […]
Portland Japanese Garden's first art exhibition of 2023, "Subtle Intimacy: Here and There," features the work of Japan Institute’s Artist-in-Residence, Rui Sasaki. Hailed as a “glass virtuoso” by The New […]
Kindred Homestead Supply hosts The Downtown Alley Flea Market from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the second Saturday of every month from April through September. The market features over 30 local artisan vendors, live music hosted by Ronald Records, bubble-blowing and chalk drawing. The market is located in the parking lot adjacent to Kindred […]
Inviting Vines, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 10, is a tour of six private gardens in the Vancouver and North Portland area. The event begins with "Breakfast in the Garden" from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. with guest speaker Kym Pokorny, The Oregonian's former garden journalist. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., attendees will […]
TreeSong Nature Awareness and Retreat Center will host an online birding class "Meet Your Summer Neighborhood and Feeder Birds" from 9 to 10:30 a.m. The course will discuss summer migrant birds, hummingbirds, and baby birds likely to be seen in backyards around the area. Attendees will get to know what birds to expect around neighborhood […]
Volunteers with the Jane Weber Evergreen Arboretum, 9215 S.E. Evergreen Highway, Vancouver, will host a Second Saturday Work Party from 10 a.m. to noon June 10. The event will focus on cleaning up along the Swatosh path, along the creek, and up into the Florence Wager garden. The event will immediately be followed by "Talks […]
Portland Japanese Garden's first art exhibition of 2023, "Subtle Intimacy: Here and There," features the work of Japan Institute’s Artist-in-Residence, Rui Sasaki. Hailed as a “glass virtuoso” by The New York Times, Sasaki traveled from her native Japan to collect plant life from Portland Japanese Garden to create a site-specific experience: Transparent impressions of the […]
The Gather Arts Market is one Sunday each month through October from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Hockinson Community Center, 15916 N.E. 182nd Ave., Brush Prairie. The market features 30 local artisan vendors and small businesses selling coffee, locally sourced honey, fresh flowers and plants, farm-fresh produce, crocheted and quilted items, original art, […]
The Camas-Washougal Historical Society's Annual Plant Fair is 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 20 and June 11 at Two Rivers Heritage Museum, 1 Durgan Street, Washougal. Find locally grown cuttings and starts of unusual or native plants for your garden, including Camas lilies. Proceeds benefit the historical society.
The Vancouver Chrysanthemum Society will hold its second annual sale of rooted chrysanthemum cuttings from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 17 outside of Greenhouse #5 at the 78th Street Heritage Farm, 1919 N.E. 78th Street, Vancouver. The mum sale will feature both exhibition and garden variety flower forms, including varieties not available in garden […]
NatureScaping Wildlife Botanical Gardens will host a worm composting workshop: "Vermicomposting; Turn Your Garbage into Gold" at the CASEE Center, 11104 N.E. 149th St. in Brush Prairie, from 10 a.m. […]
WSU Clark County Extension Master Gardeners will offer "The Whole State in One Garden," an On the Road Tour to The Oregon Garden from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 22. The Oregon Garden is an 80-acre botanical garden including over 20 specialty gardens showcasing the diverse botanical beauty of Oregon’s Willamette Valley and the […]
WSU Clark County Extension Master Gardeners and Clark County Green Neighbors will host "Creative Ornamental Garden Design" with landscape design expert Christine Anderson from 10 a.m. to noon June 24 at Pacific Park Natural Demonstration Garden, 1515 N.E. 164th Ave., Vancouver. She will describe the techniques she uses to transform ho-hum spaces into exquisite vignettes […]
Celebrate National Pollinator Week at Clark Public Utilities first-ever Pollinator Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 24 at the Clark Public Utilities Operation Center, 8600 N.E. 117th Ave, Vancouver. More than 25 agencies, organizations, universities, artisans and local businesses will participate in this free outdoor festival. Take a pollinator garden tour and learn […]
The Fort Vancouver Rose Society, founded in 1953, will hold its 68th Annual Rose Show, "Celebrating 70 Years of Roses," from 1 to 4 p.m. June 24 at First Evangelical Church, 4120 N.E. St. Johns Road, Vancouver. This event, free and open to the public, is one of the largest rose shows in Washington state. […]
Kindred Homestead Supply hosts The Downtown Alley Flea Market from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the second Saturday of every month from April through September. The market features over 30 local artisan vendors, live music hosted by Ronald Records, bubble-blowing and chalk drawing. The market is located in the parking lot adjacent to Kindred […]
