GardenSmart Oregon: a guide to non-invasive plants
Beautify your garden with native alternatives to common invasive plants. Provided by OPB.
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Shopping guides for gardeners
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Discover consumer resources for gardeners including reviews of lawn and garden products and coupons for natural supplies and plants at 23 local retailers.
Grow Smart, Grow Safe
Like others in your community and beyond, you may enjoy the beauty and bounty that a garden offers but wonder about the effects of garden chemicals. It's a pretty serious issue. Insecticides, herbicides and other such chemicals can harm people and pets and pollute the environment. Many garden products developed in the last 60 years contain toxic ingredients that fight nature rather than work with it, altering a garden's natural balance.
Grow Smart, Grow Safe can help you garden with nature. With environmental and health ratings of 600 pesticides, fertilizers and soil amendments, this publication offers a comprehensive guide to lawn and garden products. The easy-to-use tables organize entries into categories that help you find lawn and garden products least hazardous to your pets and loved ones, wildlife, lakes, streams and groundwater. In addition, tips from regional experts offer simple ways to reduce pest problems without toxics and safely grow a productive, healthy garden.Download
Natural gardening coupon
Metro partners with garden supply retailers to provide a $5-off coupon on a $20 purchase of natural and organic products, tools or native plants.* You can receive your free coupon by calling Metro Recycling Information at 503-234-3000 or by attending a natural gardening program.
Once you receive your coupon, you can use it at these retailers:
Ace Hardware, Milwaukie, 503-653-2223
Beaumont Hardware, NE Portland, 503-281-4406
Boring Square Gardens, Boring, 503-663-9797
Bosky Dell Natives, West Linn, 503-638-5945
Buffalo Gardens, NE Portland, 503-288-0220
Concentrates Inc., SE Portland, 503-234-7501
Cornell Farm, SW Portland, 503-292-9895
Dennis' Seven Dees, SW Portland, 503-297-1058
Dennis' Seven Dees, SE Portland, 503-777-1421
Dennis' Seven Dees, Lake Oswego, 503-636-4660
Drake's Seven Dees, SE Portland, 503-256-2223
Farmington Gardens, Beaverton, 503-649-4568
Flat Creek Garden Center, Gresham, 503-663-4104
Garden Fever, NE Portland, 503-287-3200
Kasch's, Lake Oswego, 503-699-9104
Kasch's, SE Portland, 503-231-7711
Kasch's, West Linn, 503-636-7744
Linnton Feed and Seed, NW Portland, 503-286-1291
Livingscape Nursery, N. Portland, 503-248-0104
Oscar Albert, SE Portland, 503-477-9894
Pistils Nursery, N. Portland, 503-288-4889
Portland Nursery on Division, SE Portland, 503-788-9000
Portland Nursery on Stark, SE Portland, 503-231-5050
Urban Farm Store on Belmont, SE Portland, (503) 234-7733
*Eligible products include organic soil amendments, organic fertilizers, hand tools, low-toxicity pesticides, herbicides and fungicides that meet national organic standards, organically grown plants and native plants. Additional exclusions may apply.
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Related Internet links
- Regional Coalition for Clean Rivers and Streams
(http://www.cleanriversandstreams.org)
- Soils for Salmon
(http://www.soilsforsalmon.org)
- Oregon Tilth
(http://www.tilth.org)
- Beneficial Insects
(http://apps01.metrokc.gov/govlink/hazwaste/house/yard/problems/goodbugs.cfm)
- Growing Gardens
(http://www.growing-gardens.org )
- Naturescaping for Clean Rivers
(http://www.naturescape.org )
- Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
(http://www.pesticide.org )
- Portland Community Gardens
(http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/index.cfm?c=39846)
- Regional Water Providers Consortium
(http://www.conserveh2o.org )
- Washington Toxics Coalition
(http://www.watoxics.org )