Volunteer Profile: Donna Shepard

Donna Shepard is one of our dedicated greenhouse Tuesday Gardeners..  She’s been volunteering with our group for over 20 years, starting back in the days of the Friends of Bush Gardens.  I’m always curious to know what brought someone to the Tuesday Gardener group to begin with.  For Donna, it was a lecture on winter…

Mission Street Parks Conservancy Volunteer Field Trip Northwest Garden Nursery

March Field Trip

Several Tuesday Gardeners visited Northwest Garden Nursery, west of Eugene, to see their beautiful display gardens and to purchase their hellebores, which are prized worldwide. We wandered the paths through woodland and rock gardens, interspersed with ornamental grasses, conifers, and flowering shrubs and trees. Among the garden beds are whimsical metal statues, stone mosaic work,…