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PORTLAND, Ore. —June 28, 2022—A staple of Portland Japanese Garden since 1967, the iris beds of the Strolling Pond Garden are a joyful sign of summer’s arrival every year when their flowy purple petals bloom. Portland Japanese Garden is the perfect place to visit often this summer as temperatures climb. Located at a higher and …
Portland Japanese Garden is honored to be among the host gardens for this year’s annual conference of the American Public Garden Association (APGA), titled “CommUNITY of Gardens.” From June 19th through June 24th, professionals representing 600 organizations from all 50 states and 20 nations will convene at Hilton Downtown Portland to highlight how public gardens “ignite connection, protection, and change.”
As the Pacific Northwest moves from spring into summer, its landscape becomes decorated with the joyous colors of irises, wisteria, azaleas, and rhododendrons. These flowers have become so deeply woven into the gardens, parks, and yards of Oregon that one may not realize many are actually Japanese in origin. Gifts from Japan: A Horticultural Tale Told through Botanical Art, a new art exhibition at Portland Japanese Garden explores how these beloved plants voyaged across an ocean to establish new roots in the United States.
PORTLAND, Ore. – April 7, 2022 – Portland Japanese Garden and Lan Su Chinese Garden, two of Portland, Oregon’s most cherished nonprofit cultural organizations, are excited to share details of the access membership levels that will welcome more members to each garden in 2022 and beyond. Lan Su Chinese Garden is delighted to announce their …
In the Garden, the arrival of spring has been accompanied by the steady bloom of cherry blossoms. The delicate and ephemeral beauty of these cherished trees is stirring, and our Yoshino and Weeping Cherry trees will soon glow with joyful white and pink colors. What better place to come embrace the start of a new season then at Portland Japanese Garden?
Portland Japanese Garden presents “Fashion and Fantasy: The Art of Netsuke Carvings,” beginning February 12 and running through April 17.
In October, Jun Kaneko’s famously large and vividly colored outdoor ceramic statues will be installed across our Portland Japanese Garden.
Portland Japanese Garden changes with the seasons and is never the same garden twice. In summer the cherry blossoms of spring give way to a lush terrain of energetic and multihued greens. Flowers such as our irises bloom in purple and white and the orange and black koi happily swim in the waters of our Strolling Pond Garden. It truly is a place to find connection: with nature, with one another, and within. We look forward to your visit!
PORTLAND, Ore. — January 3, 2022 — It has been a frosty winter to begin 2022, so what better way to escape the chill than drinking a warm tea at Portland Japanese Garden’s Umami Café? The inviting Umami Café is an idyllic setting to set aside the busy patter of the day-to-day and take a …