Regional Workshop at Gresham Japanese Garden

Join us for our Regional Workshop at Gresham Japanese Garden in Gresham, Oregon.

Sponsored  by: Bartlett Tree Experts     

Event Registration* TO REGISTER PLEASE CALL OR EMAIL MARISA AT 503-222-1194 or info@najga.org.

NAJGA/GJG Members- $349 
Non-Members- $399

Agenda

Thursday, September 21: Garden Tours

We will travel in 15-passenger vans to visit the Oregon State Penitentiary, Oregon Garden, and a private garden, Arbutus Garden Arts. We will end with dinner in Historic downtown Gresham at a family-owned pizza restaurant.

7:00am: Registration, coffee, tea, quiche and bagels at the Gresham Japanese Garden. Vans and/or volunteers will pick up guests at the hotel.

Garden Tours
We will travel by 15-passenger vans in waves to the Gardens.

Oregon State Penitentiary – THIS TOUR IS FULL, BUT WE HAVE OTHER GARDENS TO TAKE ITS PLACE.
Survivor of Hiroshima, Hoichi is known for building healing gardens all over the world. He will be at OSP to share his vision of what it means to build a healing garden in a maximum security prison. Learn more about this garden here. Background checks need to be completed a month before workshop, so don’t wait too long before registering.

The optional garden tours are: Fernhill Wetlands (another Hoichi garden), Miller’s Manor Garden Nursery, and Arbutus Garden Arts.

Oregon Garden: Botanical garden encompassing over 80 acres and featuring more than 20 specialty gardens. Inspired by the Oregon Agriculture Nursery, the Oregon Garden is a compilation of horticulture crops of Oregon, showcasing the amazing world-renowned cultivars of the Oregon nurseries. Maryann Lewis, aesthetic pruner and NAJGA member will giving tours at the Conifer Garden.

Arbutus Garden Arts: Small urban strolling garden in Portland with over 1,100 unique species and cultivars. Arbutus Garden is indicative of the Northwest ‘plant geek culture.’

6:00pm: We will all gather at Barley Sprout restaurant in Gresham for a complimentary dinner of pizza, salad, local brews, and their famous lavender honey lemonade.

Friday, September 22: Nursery Tour Day

7:30-8:30am: Registration open. Coffee, tea, and yogurt bar
9:15am-10:30am: Bartlett Tree Experts Presentation on Root Invigoration
11:00am-4:15pm: Nursery Tours: Iseli Nursery, J. Frank Schmidt & Son Nursery, and Bentwood Tree Farm
Lunch Time: J.Frank Schmidt’s is opening up their beautiful arboretum for you to enjoy lunch and the surroundings.

ISELI’S NURSERY
John Iseli had worldwide connections of cultivars. He was an innovator of dwarf conifers, and to this day, Iseli Nursery is known for their fast array of high-quality, unique cultivars sold around world. You will be given a private tour of their test garden, that features many of these cultivars, and many more that have yet to reach the market.

What to expect on Iseli’s tour: The Jean (pronounced John) Iseli Memorial Garden was created in 1986, the year Jean Iseli unexpectedly passed away. Over the years, they have grown a diverse collection of conifers and maples. You will see specimens of rare and unique cultivars, including some that have not yet been released to the public and others that never made it to market and can only be found here. All the plants are listed with a botanical name, and if there is an Iseli triangle, it is an Iseli Introduction. We will start out in the South garden and I will go over some of our signature collections as we tour, as well as discuss information about Iseli Nursery. At the end of tour, you will receive a small plant specimen to take home.

J FRANK SCHIMIDT & SONS
Still a family owned business, J. Frank Schmidt & Sons is known around the world as a premier source of deciduous shade, flowering and ornamental trees. The best of these was Red Sunset® Maple, a tree that put J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co. on the map soon after its introduction in 1966. Named the “Number One Shade Tree” in Ohio Shade Tree Trials, it soon became the top selling red maple in the country. More than 50 years later, it remains a very popular cultivar.

What to expect on J. Frank Schmidt’s tour: The tour will start near their headquarters in Boring,Oregon, with an overview of tree production from seed sowing to sale. The tour will include two locations of their propagation departments, and at one there will be the opportunity to see plants being bench grafted. We will also tour the seedling farm where over 50 miles of seedbed are sown every year. Bare root production fields where 1, 2 & 3 year trees are produced and also our container yard where trees are grown in containers for year round sales.

BENTWOOD TREE FARM
In the early 80’s, Laura and Tom Dufala started with a small bonsai business. Later, they discovered they preferred growing in-ground pines. Today they grow Pinus resinosa, Pinus thunbergii, and Pinus contorta. Bentwood Tree Farm combines Eastern aesthetics with Northwest farm growing techniques. On the tour, you will learn about pruning techniques of the different pines, and soil characteristics that conifers and pines prefer.

What to expect on Bentwood Tree Farm’s tour: This nursery only grows pines and known for their cloud pruning. Located on Tom & Laura Dufala’s beautiful property in Boring, Oregon, you will walk the grounds with Tom and Laura and hear their story and get some first hand tips to growing and pruning pines.

CATERED DINNER AT BENTWOOD TREE FARM
5:00pm: We will all end at Bentwood Tree Farm to enjoy complimentary happy hour and dinner outside in their niché farm with a spectacular view of Mt. Hood and splendid Northwest weather.

Saturday, September 23: At the Gresham Japanese Garden

7:30am-8:30am: Breakfast burritos and fruit at the Gresham Japanese Garden
8:45am-11:00am: Gresham Japanese Garden Presentations: Learn from Jim Card his approach to the design of Tsuru Island, and Sue Hughes, Activities Director and Volunteer Coordinator on how the Garden operates without a permanent funding source.
11:15am-1:00pm: Garden Tours: Volunteers will be staged throughout our spaces explaining what they do and how the area was created.
1:00-2:15pm: Lunch on your own in downtown Gresham. You’ll be receiving a hand painted tote bag with menus to visit the different shops, and a special gift from the Gresham Japanese Garden.
2:30pm-3:30pm: Choose a Koi presentation on ‘Koi ponds in Japanese gardens’, bonsai workshop with GJG’s bonsai instructor, or a pine pruning workshop with Laura Dufala of Bentwood Tree Farm.
3:45pm-4:45pm: Panel Q&A with garden designer Francheska Snyder, owner of Niwa Method and GJG Garden Director Jim Card on the entry garden project. How do you showcase the Inside/Out philosophy within a building remodel and portions of the outside spaces already created.
5:00pm-7:00pm: Complimentary happy hour and light appetizers on Tsuru Island with Oregon Koto Kai for entertainment.

Sunday, September 24: Build Nobedan in GJG Entry Garden

Morning: Breakfast is on your own
9:30am-4:00pm: Participate in building the Gresham Japanese Garden’s remodeled Kyoudou Center’s new entry garden. Learn how to install a mixed-use cobblestone and paver nobedan path, and help with planting the landscape.

Travel

Tours to the Oregon State Penitentiary only run until 3pm and it takes 1.5 hours to travel there. Please book your flight or allow the driving time to get here as early as possible, so you may participate in all the activities planned for Thursday.

Accommodations

The volunteers of the Gresham Japanese Garden open their hearts and homes to you. If you would like a place to stay, please email Marisa.

Courtyard by Marriott Portland East

Book your special group rate of $149.00 per night

Last day to book for a guaranteed room is Thursday, August 31st

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Event Registration: Call or email Marisa at 503-222-1194 or info@najga.org for registration information.
NAJGA/GJG Members- $349
Non-Members- $399

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Things to Do in Oregon

Mount Hood: 1.25 hrs from Gresham, Mt. Hood is the highest mountain in Oregon at 11,240 feet in elevation. Built in 1937, visit Timberline Lodge, a grand refuge for visitors wanting to experience the magnificent and expansive high-alpine environment of Mt. Hood.

Oregon Coast: 2-hour drive from Gresham, the northern Oregon Coast is considered the most scenic to visit.

Multnomah Falls: Multnomah Falls was formed about 15,000 years ago as a result of the Missoula Floods, a series of massive floods that scoured out the Columbia River Gorge. It has a total height of 620 feet, with the upper falls being 542 feet and the lower segment being 69 feet. The rich soil in East County of Portland is also the result of the Missoula Floods.

Willamette Valley: The Willamette Valley, Oregon’s leading wine region, has two-thirds of the state’s wineries and vineyards. It is recognized as one of the premier Pinot noir–producing areas in the world in a vast and varied appellation that includes eleven nested appellations: Chehalem Mountains; Dundee Hills; Eola-Amity Hills; Laurelwood District; Lower Long Tom; McMinnville; Mount Pisgah, Polk County, Oregon; Ribbon Ridge; Tualatin Hills; Van Duzer Corridor and Yamhill-Carlton.