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?Oregonize' Your Garden with Native Plants

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FOREST GROVE, Ore. – A Hillsboro landscape designer will teach students how to weave native plants into their gardens this spring in a Portland Community College non-credit class. In Native Garden Design, instructor Marci Degman shares how growing indigenous Oregon plants yields not only a historical landscape, but an environmentally sound garden as well. This three-week, non-credit course will run from 7 to 9 p.m. every Tuesday from April 23 through May 7 in Room 1569 of Neil Armstrong Middle School, 1777 Mt. View Lane. Cost is $23. For more information, contact PCC Community Education at 503-533-2917.

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 »