What We Do

We Do fun things all year!

Plant Sale:

100’s of plants dug up at “potting party”! [B.R.]

We have “potting parties” at each other’s gardens in fall and spring.  Each May, we set up the annual “Plant Sale” in one day and sell the next day.

 

Shoppers lined up around parking lot before plant sale doors open. [D.H.]
1000’s of plants awaiting shoppers. [D.H.]

Field Trips:

We have field trips to public & private gardens (including each others), nurseries and various gardening events and venues [PRIVATE – member’s only events.]

Lan Su Chinese Garden, Portland.

Member’s garden.

Beautification:

The club has planted over 7000 daffodils at the  Washougal Waterfront Park and the Camas P.O.  They also help tend and prune the roses at Parker’s Landing and rhododendrons at Camas P.O. [Members’ only events.]

Daffodils at the Washougal Waterfront Park. [B.R.]
Roses at Parker’s Landing Historical Park.
Rhododendron’s blooming at Camas P.O.

Speakers:

The club invites speakers to our monthly meetings who discuss a wide variety of gardening related topics such as:  Bats (yes, bats!), Mason Bees, Lilies, Composting, Landscape design, Pruning, Canning & Preserving,  Rose Care, and Native Plants, to name but a few. [Open to the PUBLIC events.]

Bats by Steven Clark. [S.C.]

 

 

 

 

Bokashi Composting by Jen Posiva. [J.P.]
Stan Bunce on tool maintenance. [B.R.]

 

 

Functional Arts & Crafts:

Club members create and help each other create wreath making, flower arranging, and more. [PRIVATE, members’ only events.]

Wreath making. [C.J.]

Flower arranging.

Show & Tell & Identification & Questions:

Electric tools demo.

 

 

 

Mystery plant identified – Goodyera oblongifolia,  Rattlesnake Plantain. [B.R.]

 

 

 

 

 

Potlucks:

Arbor Day:

We  have donated native trees or shrubs to Camas or Washougal for many years.