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Garden Parties to Feature Work of PCC Students
Photos and story by James Hill
Spring must be right around the corner.
Next week and into the weekend, Portland Community College students from the Rock Creek Campus and their instructors will add personal touches to the season of blooms and beauty at the Yard, Garden and Patio Show and at the Home and Garden show.
Landscape Technology department chair Dick Hollenbeck and a group of PCC landscape tech students will show off a display garden, titled "A Spring Formal," at the Yard Garden and Patio Show, slated for Feb. 26-28 at the Oregon Convention Center. The event is produced by the Oregon Association of Nurserymen, a long-time contributor to the PCC Landscape Technology Scholarship program. This year’s theme is "Water in the Garden."
This year’s display garden project, Hollenbeck’s 12th year leading the PCC student effort, will incorporate a wave of flowering plants and trees with the show’s water theme. Students will accent flowering plum trees and 1,000 potted bulbs with three "moods of water" in the form of reflective and splash pools. Students will take the designs and their own skills down to the convention center, 777 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., on Monday, Feb. 22 to begin building the 1,600-square-foot display on the showroom floor. As many as 20 PCC landscaping students will participate.
"In terms of the past shows, this one is a little more difficult to put together," Hollenbeck said. "It’s going to be a nice display with a high contrast to the other displays at the show. It will be a more formal water display."
To check it out for yourself, The 12th Annual Yard, Garden and Patio Show is from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $7.
Not to be outdone, 12 of PCC’s second-year students in a Building Construction Technology class will take to the floor of the Portland Metropolitan Exposition Center, 2060 N. Marine Drive, Feb. 24-28 to unveil a term-long building project at the Home and Garden Show.
The student project is an eight-foot by 10-foot structure that includes cabinets for storage, countertops and photo displays of the Building Construction Technology program at PCC.
"It is outrageous," said Spencer Hinkle, course instructor. "It has track lights, carpeted floors, craftsman-style cabinets. It is just gorgeous."
To see what PCC students can do with their own two hands, check out the display booth Feb. 24 and 25 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Feb. 26 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Feb. 27 from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Feb. 28 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
To receive more information on the Landscape Technology project, call Dick Hollenbeck at 614-7462, or his assistant at 614-7255. If you need information on the Building Construction Technology project, call Spencer Hinkle at 614-7405.
About James Hill
James G. Hill, an award-winning journalist and public relations writer, is the Director of Public Relations at Portland Community College. A graduate of Portland State University, James has worked as a section editor for the Newberg Graphic... more »