SPECIALTY GARDENS

Home Demonstration Garden – Visitors learn from experts and view the latest gardening developments and new ideas for home gardens. Each garden demonstrates a different concept in home gardening and are created by a different nursery most of which are local to the Willamette Valley.

Nurseries and organizations currently involved in this program are:

Al's Garden Centers are family owned and operated and are located in Woodburn, Sherwood, and Gresham. They have been helping their neighbors turn their house into a home since 1948. This home demonstration garden showcases annual color.

Garland Nursery is proudly family-owned and operated for over 70 years, basing their business upon honesty, integrity, open communication, superior products that anticipate and exceed the needs of the marketplace, and specialize in service to people. The Garland Nursery home demonstration garden uses limited space to create an intimate garden setting.

One Green World - This home demonstration garden is an edible landscape, showcasing dwarf varieties of fruiting trees and shrubs for the home landscape. One Green World offers unique Fruits and Ornamentals from around the world

Marion County Home Composting Demonstration Center.  Here you will find examples of many different types of home composting bins that you can use to make quality compost in your own backyard.  There's information about each of these, as well as flyers on how to compost at home.  It can help you decide which composter will work best for you.

If you would like to become a part of the Home Demonstration Program, please call the Garden and ask to speak to the Horticulture Manager.

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