FLOWERS & NURSERIES

Mt. Hood Territory is filled with colorful flower farms. In spring, visit for the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival, summer for lavender and early fall for fields of dahlias. Taste Oregon through its freshly picked blueberries, strawberries and raspberries. Discover the color and variety of heirloom vegetables and herbs at over 40 farms. Do it yourself at u-pick and u-cut farms. At the plant nurseries and garden centers, stock up on hanging baskets, annuals, native and wetland plants, wildflowers, and a wide array of trees and shrubs.

Oregon farm and garden tours offer a little something for everyone and are great places to go with families. Go on a hayride, hop aboard the rail road that takes you through the farm. Meet farm animals including alpacas, llamas and miniature donkeys. Relax in The Territory’s gardens or bring your curiosity to the Hopkins Demonstration Forest.

Learn how Oregon farmers grow sustainably or what it was like to be a farmer in the pioneer days at Philip Foster Farm. Try your hand at cooking with a class at the Kitchen at Middleground Farms.

TRIP IDEAS

Celebrate Lavender In Bloom

June is the season for the heavenly scent of Lavender in Oregon's Mt. Hood Territory. Several farms will be showcasing this versatile and fragrant bloom at events in the coming weeks....

Dahlia Festival Primed To Amaze

You could say Swan Island Dahlias in Canby is kind of a big deal when it comes to their chosen flower. The grower has been in operation for more than 90 years and in addition to putting on the massive...

Circular close-up photo of Checkers, a red with white tips dahlia bloom, one of the thousands found at Swan Island Dahlias.

More Flower Events Now That The Tulip Festival Is Done

If you're anything like us, the the end of the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival kinda feels like the day after Christmas as a kid. But like a kid who's birthday is only a month or so after Christmas, we don...

Pink dahlia with a honey bee perched on its yellow center at Swan Island Dahlias in Oregon's Mt. Hood Territory..

Modern Pioneers: Lory Duralia Of Bosky Dell Natives

Creating a garden can be more than crafting a green space to beautify your living space. When done with thought and planning and the help of an expert, it can be about creating a better place not just...

red and yellow Daisy at Bosky Dell Natives in West Linn

Out In The Garden Nursery - Rare Plants And Fun Animals In Molalla

What do you get when you cross rare ornamental plants with friendly goats? No, it's not the worst lead in for a joke ever, but the premise behind Out in the Garden Nursery in the country town of Mola...