Gresham Japanese Garden

Ikebana for Every Season
2023-04-11 13:00 - 14:30, 2023-03-14 13:00 - 14:30, 2023-01-10 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Resource Center, 219 S. Main Avenue, Gresham, OR, 97080
Ikebana is one of the traditional Japanese art forms that uses plant and other materials and was established in the 15th century though the origin goes back farther. ​.
Ikebana has three main components: the natural material (flowers, tree branches, leaves, or conifer needles), the vase, and the kendzan (a device for strengthening the stem and keeping it in the desired position). The basic aesthetic principle of Ikebana is refined simplicity, achieved by bringing out the natural beauty of the material, which determines the bouquet’s asymmetrical composition and contrasting colors and textures.
In these series of workshops, Nana Bellerud will cover the basic concept, techniques, tools and equipment, and plant care for Ikebana. Participants may use the Garden’s vases and tools during the class or purchase a Starter Kit.
Participants will make 1 basic style and 1 freestyle of Ikebana with emphasis on seasonal themes.
Class will be held in the Resource Center (South end of Main City Park, building closest to Springwater Trail).

Limited to 9 participants.
INSTRUCTOR: NANA BELLERUD
Nana G. Bellerud has been studying the Sogetsu School of Ikebana since 2005 and continues to be inspired and have new insights from its teachings. Nana demonstrates, exhibits, and teaches ikebana at a wide range of venues including the Portland Art Museum, Portland Japanese Garden, and Leach Botanical Garden. Through her demonstrations and workshops, she seeks to introduce others to the art of ikebana and to intrigue and inspire them. Beyond simply producing a beautiful work of art with flowers and natural objects, she shows her audience how ikebana explores artistic concepts such as balance, contrast, and negative space. Nana is currently serving as Branch Director of Sogetsu Portland and is a past President of Ikebana International Portland Chapter #47.

Art of Bonsai Workshop (Saturday)
2023-03-18 13:00 - 15:00 | The Resource Center, 219 S. Main Avenue, Gresham, OR, 97080
The art of Japanese bonsai embodies the Japanese spirit with philosophy, religion, and aesthetics harmonizing and complimenting each other. Bonsai is more than just an art form – it is a way of life and thinking; a way of cultivating patience, nobility, and sympathy – and this is the reason why bonsai is important for Japanese culture. Therefore, to understand bonsai art, you must learn and understand each of its core values ​​in order to experience it with a calm and open mind.
Explore the art of bonsai with Mark Vossbrink. Learn how to form your own Bonsai tree. The workshop is two hours. The $35.00 cost includes all materials. Each month will be a different project and show and tell is part of the workshop, so feel free to bring one of your pieces from home.
Please bring your own pruners or snippers and plastic table cloth to protect the table.
Cost: $35 per class
2023 Dates: Third Thursday or third Saturday of the month.
Time: 1pm – 3pm
Place: The Gresham Japanese Garden’s Resource Center, at the south end of Main City Park

Art of Bonsai Workshop (Thursday)
2023-03-16 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-02-16 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-01-19 13:00 - 15:00 | The Resource Center, 219 S. Main Avenue, Gresham, OR, 97080

Introduction to Aesthetic Pruning Approach Course Recap - Onsite
2023-03-11 12:30 - 13:30 | GJG Tsuru Island, 124 S Main Avenue, Gresham, OR, 97030, United States
This is an optional one-hour Course Recap to the Introduction to Aesthetic Pruning Approach course.Tsuru Island will be our classroom to practice assessing trees in a garden context and develop a pruning plan.

Introduction to Aesthetic Pruning Approach - Zoom
2023-03-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Zoom, 219 S Main Avenue, Gresham, OR
Learn to apply the aesthetic pruning approach to trees and shrubs in your garden, including how to assess your tree, identify the role it will play in your garden, and develop a pruning plan to achieve your goals.
Time: 6-8pm Pacific Standard Time.

Art of Bonsai Workshop (Saturday)
2023-02-18 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-01-21 13:00 - 15:00 | The Resource Center, 219 S. Main Avenue, Gresham, OR, 97080
The art of Japanese bonsai embodies the Japanese spirit with philosophy, religion, and aesthetics harmonizing and complimenting each other. Bonsai is more than just an art form – it is a way of life and thinking; a way of cultivating patience, nobility, and sympathy – and this is the reason why bonsai is important for Japanese culture. Therefore, to understand bonsai art, you must learn and understand each of its core values ​​in order to experience it with a calm and open mind Explore the art of bonsai with Mark Vossbrink. Learn how to form your own Bonsai tree. Connect with nature and experience the stress-relieving benefits of this hobby. A project is finished each month to take home. Please bring your own pruning shears and pliers to class.
The workshop is two hours. The $35.00 cost includes all materials. Each month will be a different project and show and tell is part of the workshop, so feel free to bring one of your pieces from home.
Please bring your own pruners or snippers and plastic table cloth to protect the table.
Cost: $35 per class 2023 Dates: Third Thursday or third Saturday of the month. Time: 1pm – 3pm Place: The Gresham Japanese Garden’s Resource Center, at the south end of Main City Park

Fundamentals of Pruning Course Recap Onsite
2023-02-11 12:30 - 13:30 | GJG Tsuru Island, 124 S Main Avenue, Gresham, OR, 97030, United States
This is the optional one hour recap class to the Fundamentals of Pruning course. You must be signed up for the Fundamentals of Pruning course in order to attend this recap class.
The recap to the course will be onsite on Gresham Japanese Garden’s Tsuru Island. Lincoln Proud will go over the pruning cuts described on Zoom, viewing pruning tools, and demonstrating how to approach a variety of plants.

Win a Trip to Cabo!
2023-01-31 - 2023-03-10
Your one-week vacation is good for a Junior Suite between March 11-November 30, 2023 at one of Pueblo Bonito Resorts: Pueblo Bonito Sunset Beach, Pueblo Bonito Pacifica, Pueblo Bonito Los Cabos, Pueblo Bonito Rose, Pueblo Bonito Blanco, Pueblo Bonito Mazatlan, and Pueblo Bonito Emerald Bay. Airline tickets not included.
Date is subject to availability through Pueblo Bonito Sunset Beach. Date may be extended at winner’s expense for one year at $169.00, and two years at $249.00. Upgrades are available at winner’s expense. Winner will be provided the contact information to book vacation.
Tickets will be mailed to the address entered on your payment page.
Thank you for helping the Gresham Japanese Garden raise the funds to remodel the Resource Center.

Origami for Everyone
2022-12-12 18:00 - 19:15, 2022-10-10 18:00 - 19:15, 2022-09-12 18:00 - 19:15 | The Resource Center, 219 S. Main Avenue, Gresham, OR, 97080
Eileen Holzman, an art therapist, horticultural therapist and retired art educator will take you through the steps to creating a simple shape to ones a little more difficult. You can make as many as you’d like within the hour and 15 minutes.

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Fall Pruning for Your Trees and Shrubs
2022-10-22 13:00 - 15:00 | Gresham Japanese Garden Greenhouse, 219 N Main, Gresham, Multnomah, 97080, United States
Join us for a free class in the Gresham Japanese Garden’s greenhouse for a discussion on what plants to prune in the F and HOW to prune them.
Jim Card, the Gresham Japanese Garden Director will be covering the basics of pruning, while using examples of the plants that are in the Gresham Japanese Garden. He will also cover:

Basics of aesthetic pruning
Plant grouping specifically to what plants want to be pruned in the Fall vs. Spring
Principals of pruning and training
Feeding and mulching for the Winter to promote Spring flowers and growth

Class will be held in the outside greenhouse behind the Resource Center (building closest to Springwater Trail).
Masks will be mandatory. Limited to 9 participants.

INSTRUCTOR: JIM CARD
Jim Card spent 25 years serving the residential and commercial communities as a Landscape Services business owner.
Jim has participated in aesthetic pruning workshops, and has a deep understanding of how plants should be treated.
Jim Card is the Gresham Japanese Garden’s Director and has created the current garden from start to finish — with help from volunteers.

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Koi Expo
2022-07-09 10:00 - 16:00 | Coho Pavillon
Join us for our first Koi Expo brought to you by The Northwest Koi and Goldfish Club at Main City Park Coho Pavillon. Educational seminars, the viewing of dozens of koi, a koi-paper fishing pond for children, and a live auction with koi and pond related items are all scheduled!
Next to the fish tanks, you will find bonsai and bonsai containers for sale, along with bonsai, ikebana, and origami demonstrations.
Mark your calendar for this special event!

Organic Vegetable Gardening - Rescheduled time on Zoom
2022-04-14 18:30 - 20:00 | Zoom, 219 S Main Avenue, Gresham, OR
This is a free class hosted on Zoom.
Join Zoom Meeting – Rescheduledhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86010681569?pwd=[REDACTED] ID: 860 1068 1569Passcode: [REDACTED]
It will cover how to improve your garden’s health and our environment by growing organically. The class will include soil preparation, planting succession tips, companion planting, avoiding diseases, different types of composting, and elements of permaculture.

INSTRUCTOR: JIM BUCK
Jim has been an avid gardener since childhood when he asked for plants as birthday gifts. He worked at a nursery during high school learning more about plant propagation, plant diseases, and nutritional needs.
As a former school principal, Jim involved the entire school in restoring and certifying acreage behind the school as a wildlife habitat. He has a strong interest in native plants and their uses by indigenous tribes. Jim volunteers at Tsuru Island Japanese Garden and coordinates a community garden in Gresham. He also serves on the Urban Forestry Subcommittee for the city of Gresham. His perennial garden at home contains more than 150 different plant species. When not gardening, he enjoys cycling, wood turning, traveling and hiking.

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Organic Gardening Fundamentals - In Person
2022-04-04 18:30 - 20:00 | The Resource Center, 219 S. Main Avenue, Gresham, OR, 97080
This is a free class.
It will cover how to improve your garden’s health and our environment by growing organically. The class will include soil preparation, planting succession tips, companion planting, avoiding diseases, different types of composting, and elements of permaculture.

Class will be held in the Resource Center (building closest to Springwater Trail)

INSTRUCTOR: JIM BUCK
Jim has been an avid gardener since childhood when he asked for plants as birthday gifts. He worked at a nursery during high school learning more about plant propagation, plant diseases, and nutritional needs.
As a former school principal, Jim involved the entire school in restoring and certifying acreage behind the school as a wildlife habitat. He has a strong interest in native plants and their uses by indigenous tribes. Jim volunteers at Tsuru Island Japanese Garden and coordinates a community garden in Gresham. He also serves on the Urban Forestry Subcommittee for the city of Gresham. His perennial garden at home contains more than 150 different plant species. When not gardening, he enjoys cycling, wood turning, traveling and hiking.

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Learn How to Prune Your Trees and Bushes in the Spring
2022-03-19 13:00 - 15:00 | Gresham Japanese Garden Greenhouse, 219 N Main, Gresham, Multnomah, 97080, United States
Join us for a free class in the Gresham Japanese Garden’s greenhouse for a discussion on what plants to prune in the Spring and HOW to prune them.
Jim Card, the Gresham Japanese Garden Director will be covering the basics of pruning, while using examples of the plants that are in the Gresham Japanese Garden. He will also cover:

Basics of aesthetic pruning
Plant grouping
Principals of pruning and training
Feeding and mulching

Class will be held in the outside greenhouse behind the Resource Center (building closest to Springwater Trail).

INSTRUCTOR: JIM CARD
Jim Card spent 25 years serving the residential and commercial communities as a Landscape Services business owner.
Jim has participated in aesthetic pruning workshops, and has a deep understanding of how plants should be treated.
Jim Card is the Gresham Japanese Garden’s Director and has created the current garden from start to finish — with help from volunteers.
Look to join Jim for his Fall pruning class too offered in October.

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Origami for Everyone
2022-03-12 15:00 - 16:15, 2022-02-12 15:00 - 16:15, 2021-12-22 18:00 - 19:15 | The Resource Center, 219 S. Main Avenue, Gresham, OR, 97080
Origami has a long history, and it is interesting to learn that paper folding is done all over the world! Origami USA is our national organization that has conventions and information for all.
Origami provides a a relaxing and rewarding experience as the sequences of folds are learned. Both children and adults can learn how to fold many models that include geometric boxes, animals, insects and designs using beautiful colored and patterned papers.
Eileen Holzman, artist, retired art educator (taught art in NJ public schools), and art therapist has taught origami to all ages and in schools, libraries, senior centers and in homes where domestic abuse survivors lived.

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Ikebana for Every Season
2022-03-08 13:00 - 15:00 | The Resource Center, 219 S. Main Avenue, Gresham, OR, 97080
Ikebana is one of the traditional Japanese art forms that uses plant and other materials and was established in the 15th century though the origin goes back farther.
Ikebana has three main components: the natural material (flowers, tree branches, leaves, or conifer needles), the vase, and the kendzan (a device for strengthening the stem and keeping it in the desired position). The basic aesthetic principle of Ikebana is refined simplicity, achieved by bringing out the natural beauty of the material, which determines the bouquet’s asymmetrical composition and contrasting colors and textures.
In these series of workshops, Nana Bellerud will cover the basic concept, techniques, tools and equipment, and plant care for Ikebana. Participants may use the Garden’s vases and tools during the class or purchase a Starter Kit.
Participants will make 1 basic style and 1 freestyle of Ikebana with emphasis on seasonal themes.
Class will be held in the Resource Center (building closest to Springwater Trail).

INSTRUCTOR: NANA BELLERUD
Nana G. Bellerud has been studying the Sogetsu School of Ikebana since 2005 and continues to be inspired and have new insights from its teachings. Nana demonstrates, exhibits, and teaches ikebana at a wide range of venues including the Portland Art Museum, Portland Japanese Garden, and Leach Botanical Garden. Through her demonstrations and workshops, she seeks to introduce others to the art of ikebana and to intrigue and inspire them. Beyond simply producing a beautiful work of art with flowers and natural objects, she shows her audience how ikebana explores artistic concepts such as balance, contrast, and negative space. Nana is currently serving as Branch Director of Sogetsu Portland and is a past President of Ikebana International Portland Chapter #47.

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Holiday Wreath Making
2021-12-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Gresham Japanese Garden Greenhouse, 219 N Main, Gresham, Multnomah, 97080, United States
Get ready for the Holidays by decorating your front door with a holiday wreath.
Cost includes the ring, wire, pinecones, greens and berries to make a beautiful 22″ diameter wreath.
Time: 2pm – 4pmPlace: The Garden’s Greenhouse at Main City Park

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