We are excited about our Four Open Gardens this spring! Hope you can make it one or all!
2026 Open Gardens:
April 26th: 11am – 2pm
This Event is part of Native Plant Appreciation Month, which is organized by the Native Plant Society of Oregon (NPSO).
How many native plants can one fit into a typical Portland yard? Come find out for yourself and join Carol Trese and Plantzy to see an urban garden filled with well over one hundred species of native plants. Carol’s Backyard Habitat Platinum Level Certified yard features a woodland garden, a rain garden, prairie garden, and rock garden.
Zak Weinstein, NPSO Member and the owner of Plantzy, will be there to answer questions. Come learn some new native plant species and get inspiration for your own garden projects. Find out more about the Portland Chapter of the NPSO at: https://portlandnativeplants.org/
Let us know if you want to come, and we’ll send you the address before the event.
May 9th: 11am – 2pm
Join us in a highly diverse garden, which is home to over two hundred species of native plants. This Plantzy project features a mountain rock garden, along with a series of meadowy low moist areas and hills including rain garden and a bee pond, as well as a prairie garden out front.
Zak Weinstein, the owner of Plantzy, will be there to answer questions. This is at Lynne Dittulio’s garden in Vancouver, where we have had open garden events over the last few years as it has become fully developed, though new species have been added since!
Let us know if you want to come, and we’ll send you the address before the event.
May 16th: 11am – 2pm
Join us in a garden filled with over one hundred and fifty species of plants native to different parts of the state, many uncommon in gardens. It features a roof water fed stream to a rain garden with a mini bog, and multiple hillocks with Willamette Valley to montane plants and more. It was designed and installed by Plantzy.
Zak Weinstein, the owner of Plantzy, will be there to answer questions. Come learn some new native plant species and get inspiration for your own garden projects. Also learn about some of the insects in the garden from Frank Howarth, entomologist. Frank and Nancy’s garden is in Bridlemile SW Portland. This event is also with the Portland Chapter of the Native Plant Society of Oregon, which we are member of, consider joining!
Let us know if you want to come, and we’ll send you the address before the event.
May 23th: 11am – 2pm
**Photo coming soon
Join Zak of Plantzy and Tanya Jones, a life long home gardener and HPSO member, at her lovely place tucked in old forest on the banks of Clear Creek. Around the house, Plantzy altered what was flat ground into a dynamic terrain of hillocks and mini-mountains with rock formations as well as rain gardens, with a multitude of native plants. It was planted in the spring and fall of 2025, so it is a younger garden, but many plants will be blooming. Also, feel free to wander on paths in the surrounding forest to observe an array of naturally occurring understory species.
Due to limited parking you will likely need to sign up for a specific 1 hour time period, and we will let you know if so.