Corvallis Spring Garden Festival 2014

The rain held off for most of the day but the wind was sometimes strong at yesterday's Spring Garden Festival. There were booths filled with local vendors and organizations and a nature-themed art exhibit in the Arts Center. There was information on beekeeping and also Natural Areas Celebration Week, which includes a whole slew of events going on now through May 11. I brought home a couple of small plants including a golden lemon thyme and a dwarf conifer.

One of the information booths held a small planted garden bed and your task was to identify four weeds in a row on this bingo chart. I wish I would have taken a picture of the garden bed, darn.

Another activity sponsored by the Civic Beautification Urban Forestry Commission (CBUF) was a tree identification quest. The passport asked you to identify the tree and provide different values on that specific tree, for example, atmospheric carbon reduction, storm water intercepted annually and the year planted. It is my understanding that the chair of this commission, a recent Oregon State University graduate, did the wood burning on these medallions.