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The 2024 Garden Year

January 19, 2024 January Our year started with snow, ice and frigid temperatures in mid-January. Our temperatures stayed below freezing for almost a week. I think it was the most consistent cold that we've experienced since moving here. Fortunately, it was a dry snow so there wasn't too much damage. Once again, we almost lost the azara and I'm afraid there would have been some breakage if I had not kept knocking the ice off. February 14, 2024 February In past years, it seems that inclement weather seems to hit around Michael's birthday in mid-February. After the January snow and ice, this month was actually quite tame. Nothing exciting to report - mostly birdwatching . Early flowers like hellebores, cyclamen and crocus begin to bloom in mid month. March 3, 2024 March I got into a walking routine which I'm happy to report I am continuing this year. You get to the point where you feel guilty if you miss a day. I do miss days occasionally but I'm learning that ...
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HPSO Book Fair this Saturday


The Book and Library Committee is hosting a pre-holiday event for Hardy Plant Society of Oregon members!  If you are not a member, you can purchase a membership at the sale.
Saturday, December 7, 2019: BookFair at HPSO

10am-4pm at the HPSO office at
4412 SW Barbur Blvd., Suite 260, Portland 
Parking is convenient, directly under our building, and also on nearby side streets.


A sale of new horticultural books will be available at our cost prices for six hours only! You can save as much as 50% on some titles. This is a good time to do some holiday shopping for the gardening lover.

As well as new titles, we have an excellent assortment of used horticultural books, many donated by our members, attractively priced, that will also be offered.

A choice selection of small giftables for early holiday shopping, and hand-crafted art made by our members, will also be featured. Botanical cards and prints, collectible novelty boxes and gloves, quilted totes and other fabric items, and a few surprises await you at this once-per-year event.


Artists include:
  • Nancy Goldman (quirky decorated boxes, Hand-knitted fingerless gloves)
  • Kate Blairstone (www.kateblairstone.com) (distinctive botanical graphic art)
  • Jane Levy Campbell (janelevycampbell.com) (botanical watercolors
  • Nancy Stober (unique quilted totes and accessories)
Gift memberships to HPSO will also be available with a special bonus to the gift provider!
Come join us and have a pleasant time perusing an assortment of new horticultural books, mainly Timber Press and Storey Publishing, offered to our membership at end-of-year pricing. Books make wonderful gifts for new gardeners, and for yourself too, with up to the minute books on gardening trends, new Pacific Northwest gardening guides and your favorite genera. 
We’ll have great holiday refreshments in a festive atmosphere to make this the most pleasant shopping excursion of the season!

 
All sales of donated books will go to our Grants & Scholarships programs.






Text and photos by Phillip Oliver, Dirt Therapy
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  1. Endah MurniyatiDecember 3, 2019 at 9:29 PM

    I've been waiting for book fair here, that provide gardening books

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