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 […]
Bring your gardening skills to the Second Saturday Work Party at the Jane Weber Evergreen Arboretum, 9215 S.E. Evergreen Hwy., Vancouver, from 10 a.m. to noon July 8. Volunteers will be working on the east side of the arboretum, clearing up gardens. Volunteers are encouraged to stay for a presentation with Groundskeeper Woolley, who will […]
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, […]
WSU Extension Master Gardeners will host a Garlic Growing Workshop from 10 to 11:30 a.m. July 12 at the 78th Street Heritage Farm, located at Northeast 78th Street and Northeast 19th Court in Hazel Dell. The cost is $5. Topics will include choosing which type to grow (hard neck or soft neck) and when to […]
WSU Extension Master Gardeners will host a fruit tree pruning workshop series on July 14 via Zoom and in person on July 15 at the 78th Street Heritage Farm at Northeast 78th Street and Northeast 19th Court in Hazel Dell. Increase the beauty and productivity of your fruit trees with this informative, two-part, hands-on pruning […]
WSU Extension Master Gardeners will host a Tomato Pruning Workshop from 9:30 to 11 a.m. July 15 at the 78th Street Heritage Farm, located at Northeast 78th Street and Northeast 19th Court in Hazel Dell. The cost is $5. This workshop will clarify which types of tomato plants need pruning and will provide instruction on […]
The annual Clark County Green Neighbors Natural Garden Tour is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 16. Take a free, self-guided tour of ten gardens across Clark County. At each of the ten properties, the garden hosts employ natural gardening techniques without synthetic chemicals to maintain their beautiful gardens. Tour-takers can view guidebooks and maps […]
WSU Extension Clark County Master Gardeners are offering a "Successful Landscaping" Zoom Workshop from 6 to 7 p.m. July 20. Retired landscape designer and gardening coach Beth Goodnight has a little different take on how success is defined in the ornamental landscape. She will talk about what it takes to ensure success. And it is not […]
The Small Acreage Program of Washington State University Clark County Extension and Clark County Public Works Clean Water is offering a Well and Septic System Maintenance and Septic Self -Inspection Certification course from 6 to 8:30 p.m. July 20 at the 78th Street Heritage Farm, 1919 N.E. 78th St. in the Hazel Dell area of Vancouver. […]
