Meetings held at 11:30p.m. at Beaverton Community Center, 12350 S.W. 5th, Beaverton
September 21, 2011
"Native Plants for Birds, Bees & Butterflies"
Glen Anderson, Metro
The Cedar Mill Garden Club
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Providing Gardening Programs for 65 years in the Portland Metro Area
Black Oil Sunflower Seeds Are Favorites of many Backyard Birds
History of the JQAYoung House -- John Quincy Adams Young traveled the Oregon Trail with his family to settle in the Oregon Territory in the late 1840's.
Young built the salt-box style house in 1863 near Cedar Mill Creek where he co-owned a sawmill. He and his wife Elizabeth and their children lived in the house until 1874, when they moved across the street.
Young was appointed postmaster in that same year and the house was turned into the Cedar Mill Area's first general store and post office. It stayed that way until 1881.
The house changed hands several times and the THPRD acquired it from the Cedar Mill Bible Church in 2005.
Berry Botanical Garden, berrybot.org/
Bishops Close, www.elkrockgarden.com
The Hardy Plant Society, www.thehardyplantsociety.org/
Hoyt Arboretum, www.hoytarboretum.org
Jenkin's Estate, thprd.org/facilities/jenkins/home.cfm
The Japanese Garden, japanesegarden.org
The Oral Hull Foundation for the Blind Garden of Enchantment in Sandy, OR. www.oralhull.org
The Oregonian Home & Garden Oregonlive.com
The Oregon Garden www.oregongarden.org/
Portland Chinese Garden,www.portlandchinesegarden.org/
Portland's Gardens web.oregon.com/trips/portland_gardens.cfm
This site gives descripti ons and directions to the following:
The International Rose Test Garden, The Japanese Garden, The Classical Chinese Garden, The Peninsula Park Rose Garden, Crystal Springs Rhodendron Garden,
The Portland Memory Garden, Leach Botanical Garden,
Mill's End Park
Also see: TheSucculent Society, The Fuchsia Society, The Portland Rose Society, The Clematis Society and more
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For More Reading About the Young House see below:
The Cedar Mill News Archives at
Then go to black bar below the masthead and choose
subject index; then click on History in the News. There you will find "How Cedar Mill Got it's Name" and "Historic JQAHouse to be Park." Have Fun!
The Friends of JQAYoung House
Work Party Pictures on Young
House Wildflower Garden
On Monday, Nov. 30 Cedar Mill Garden
Club members, Susan Marshall, Sue Owen, Jackie McClung, Barbara Cushman and Ruby Warren and spouse, Dan, along with Eberhard Jaechk, JQAYoung House Foundation representative, gathered to put in a wildflower strip along the front
of the house near the sidewalk.
They weeded, put down a layer of newspaper, then mulch and finally gravel before seeding in the late fall.
Young House in 1903
Sawmill on Cedar
Mill Creek
Young House Today
John Quincy Adams Young
The John Quincy Adams Young House, located on N.W. Cornell Rd.
near 119th in the Cedar Mill Area, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in December of 2008.
The THPRD, which owns the historic property, has drawn up a master plan for renovation and restoration of the house for use as a museum and public park. The restoration includes raising the house from its current foundation and bringing the inside up to code.
The property includes a beautiful waterfall with an overlook. A boardwalk is planned for construction along the creek this summer,
and it is planned for the area to again become a public park.
The Cedar Mill Garden Club has set aside $1,500 for an herb garden or
a cottage garden when the grounds are ready. In the meantime, the
club, along with members of the Young House Foundation and a donation of mulch and gravel from Cedar Mill Lumber Co., planted a wildflower strip along the frontage to beautify the area-- click for pic.
BULLETIN: 2/23/10 THE SEEDS
EMERGED!
8th ANNUAL
PLANT SALE
A success!
See you for our 9th year on
May 4th & 5th
for
Perennials, Herbs, Native
Plants, Shrubs
Charities benefited:
A Garden at the Young House, Scholarships, Botanical Gardens
Wildflowers in Bloom June, July & August
Cedar Mill Falls
Above: Left. Cheryl Hopkins, CMGC' mom, and Cedar Mill Garden Club president, Barb Cushman. Twelve gardening books were presented to the teachers at Dilley School. Included are: "Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots," "Big Yellow Sunflower," "My Apple Tree," "Grow Your Own Pizza" and "A Seed is Sleepy."
Check them out for gifts.
FIELD TRIPS FEB. & MARCH
THE CEDAR MILL GARDEN CLUB co-sponsored the October 20, 2011 Pioneer District Luncheon, and participated in Al's Garden Club Day and the Cedar Mill Cider Festival.
Project Feederwatch
Project Feederwatch is sponsored by
the Cornell Ornithology Lab so that we can help monitor the flight patterns of Oregon birds. Oregon has one of the largest flyways in the U.S.
It is known that the migration patterns of many birds have
changed as much as 300 miles northward due to
global climate change.
To participate contact: the web address or phone: 800-843-2473. The fee is only $15.00 and
they will send you materials, including birds that
may be viewed inthe Portland Metro Area including:
house wren, black-capped chickadee, pileated woodpecker, red breasted nuthatch, spotted towhee, blue heron, grosbeak, red-winged blackbird, bush tit and many more, so join us in enjoying our feathered friends.
February 5th (Sunday)
12:30p.m Garden Fever NE 24th -8th Annual Book Soiree; Meet at Safeway parking lot on Murray and Cornell Rd in Cedar Mill. Afterwards we will look at store and nursery.
March 3rd (Saturday)
Cruses Nursery, Banks--Topiary
503) 324-9384 or 503-347-8803
March 14th (Wednesday)
We will visit Conceentrates, inc Organic Agricultue Specialists in Milwaukee, 503-234-7501, a store with all things to prepare your garden for spring followed by Lunch at Bob's Red Mill and a tour of EMSWCD Rain Gardens and Living Walls www.emswcd.org/raingarden
Proposed Dates for Field Trips, Feb-August of 2012
In Parenthesis, (other club events and community events of note)
Sat. Feb. 5 at 1:00 pm. Garden Fever's 8th Annual Book Soriee
(Feb 15, Club Meeting --"Attractomg Birds to Your Backyard")
(Feb 22-26 Ptld. Home and Garden Show)
Sat. March 3-- Cruses Nursery, Banks--Topiary 503-324-9384 or 503-347-8803
Wed. March 14 Rain Gardens, living walls etc EMSWCD then Concentrates and lunch at Bob's Red Mill
(March 12 State Board Meeting)
(March 21 Club Meeting"Shedding Light on the Shade Garden")
(Potting Parties, Plant Sale Prep.
Wed 25th? April Wildflower tour up Gorge
(April 14 (Sat) Garden Palloza at Fir Point Farms 45 Vendors at Aurora)
(April 18 Club Meeting TBA)
(April 19th district luncheon)
(Plant sale prep.)
(9th Annual Plant Sale & Art Fair - May 4-5)
Sat. May 12 Hoover Minthorne House & Herb Garden & Cecil & Molly Smith Garden (Rhodies)
(May 16th Club Meeting "Exciting Perennials for the Adventurous Gardener")
Tues. June 5 Wild Ginger Farms, Bosky Dell Natives &
Singer Hill Art Garden (living walls & Restaurant)
(June 19-21 Oregon State Fed. Garden Clubs Convention)
Early July not on a weekend--Trip to Eugene, Dancing Oaks & Barretts
( July 18 Garden Club Picnic)
(July 26-30 Washington Cty. Fair & flower show & Master Gardeners Demo Garden)
August TBA Joy Creek Nursery then Cistus Nursery & Blue Heron Herb Garden at Sauvie Isl.
Field Trips &
Links to local gardens and
societies below
