The Berry Botanic Garden

May 2006

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Bird Walk in the Garden
Have you been trying to get acquainted with all the birds in your garden but just can't get started? This "field class" is for you. Metro Parks naturalist, nature writer, and expert birder James Davis will teach the basics of bird identification using The Berry Botanic Garden as the classroom and lab. We will focus on recognizing birds by their sounds, behavior, and habitat - not just as a picture in a book. We'll also go over how to really use binoculars as a birding aid. Bring your own binocs if you have them or borrow a pair from James. Class is suitable for adults or interested teens.
James Davis
Saturday 5/6/06 8:30am - 10:30am
$8 ($5 Members) Limit 15 (Sign up for both May 6 "bird" classes and get 10% off both!)
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Gardening for Birds and Wildlife
Mother Nature and her wonderful and wild plants and animals are on-call 365 days of the year! Learn how you can enhance your landscape by planting native plants that not only produce visual enjoyment for you every season, but also help Mother Nature care for her children - the birds, bees, butterflies, mammals....! Landscape designer Gail combines degrees in Wildlife Science and Horticulture to offer unique insight into landscape choices that support birds and other wild thingse.
Gail Dresner
Saturday 5/6/06 11am - 1pm
$16.50 ($13 Members) Limit 25 (Sign up for both May 6 "bird" classes and get 10% off both!)
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Troughs with a Twist!
Do you admire the beauty of fossilized foliage? Turn your alpine troughs into fossil art! These troughs with a twist incorporate molded shapes of leaves collected on the spot, from a foray into our spring garden. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination. Bring a rigid, water repellant container of any shape. Limit the volume to no more than that of a plastic washtub, please. Be prepared to take home your leaf molds separately from the trough, and attach them with materials we provide when the trough is fully dry.
Ginny Maffitt
Sunday 5/7/06 1pm - 3:30pm
$27.50 ($22 Members)Limit 10
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Small Garden Design
Underwhelmed by your small lot? Discover how less can be more. Garden Designer Amy Whitworth, of Plan-It Earth Design, will exercise your brain with creative ways of looking at garden spaces. Your garden can be an integrated part of your home and your lifestyle. Bring photos and sketches of your gardening spaces for interactive class work: entry areas, backyard, lawn & patio - areas that work and areas that don't.
Amy Whitworth
Saturday 5/13/06 10am - noon
$16.50 ($13 Members)Limit 15
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Beginning Cedar Bark Basketry
Weaving a basket is a beautiful way to calm the soul and to honor the plant community. In this class, you will learn the basic basketry techniques of plaiting (or plain weave) and twining, while you weave a small basket using locally gathered western red cedar bark accented with waxed linen. Basket artist Therese will discuss both the ethics and techniques of gathering as well as material storage and preparation. Your finished basket will measure approximately 2.5" wide x 2.5" deep x 3.5" high.
Therese Fisher
Sunday 5/21/06 noon - 5pm
$52 ($42 Members)Limit 10
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Jane Kerr Platt Garden Tour
The Platt family graciously opens the garden John Platt and his wife, the late Jane Kerr Platt, built in the hills of Portland. This internationally acclaimed garden is featured in Rosemary Verey's "The American Woman's Garden" as a collector's garden. With its views and vistas, private niches and spectacular plant compositions, it's a garden designer's dream as well. Due to overwhelming interest in visiting this garden, Members only registration through March 31.
Sunday 5/21/06 2-4pm
$25 Limit 25
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SOLV's "Down by the Riverside"

Join SOLV for a state-wide day of volunteer activites to help improve watersheds. At the BBG you can join the volunteer crew with ivy pulling and clean-up of the ravine.
Saturday 5/20/06 9am-1pm
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(scroll down for the BBG listing under "Metro")
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