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Gather with the speakers and fellow participants at 5:30 for hors d’oeuvres and wine as we stroll through the wildflower garden at Mt. Pisgah Arboretum.
Then at 6:30 we will sit down to a delicious dinner of salmon and other Northwest delicacies, including vegetarian selections.
Mt. Pisgah Arboretum, a 209-acre living tree museum. is home to many species of native mosses, lichens, ferns, shrubs, and wildflowers. There are also several species of introduced trees. The area includes riverside trails, quiet paths through evergreen forests, bright wildflower meadows, a river meadow, a riparian forest along the Coast Fork of the Willamette River, wet forests and a water garden.
The Patricia M. Baker Memorial Wildflower Garden is a 2-acre specialty garden in the River Meadow, planted with 37 families, 70 genera and 112 species of trees, shrubs, ferns, perennials and annuals adapted to mesic and riparian habitats, some indigenous to the site and others native to other parts of the West.
Examples include: dogwood, mountain ash, vine maple, mock orange, service berry, spiraea, azalea, flowering currant, larkspur, columbine, Canadian bunchberry, violet, lewisia, penstemon, camas, trillium, and iris.
Other planted areas include an entrance garden with 89 planted species of woody plants including 57 (mostly Asian) Rhododendron species and 13 native and introduced tree species including maples, oaks, magnolias, pines and Metasequoia.
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