One of those spaces, the Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden, is in the running for the best botanical garden in the U.S., nominated in Newsweek’s annual Readers’ Choice awards.

The Portland chapter of the American Rhododendron Society developed the property as a rhododendron test garden in 1950, replacing the original test garden site on Terwilliger Boulevard which was ...

Rita Marquez recalls wheeling her daughter Nora in a stroller through the trails of in Southeast Portland. A decade later, Marquez, 53, and 10-year-old Nora, of Southeast Portland, still enjoy ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Newsweek has nominated the Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden in Southeast Portland for the “Best Botanical Garden” in the U.S. for its 2024 Reader’s Choice Awards.

PORTLAND -- The famous blooms at the Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden in southeast Portland are opening earlier than usual this year, providing a colorful show for visitors. April weather ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) – Eastmoreland’s Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden is welcoming it’s first wave of blooms of the spring! Along side the thousand plus variety of flower in the garden ...

Just 20 miles east of the picturesque coastline in Maine, on a long winding country road, beyond an unassuming sign, tucked beneath a tree canopy, is the Harvey Butler Rhododendron Sanctuary.

5801 SE 28th Ave., 503-771-8386. Nestled between Eastmoreland's public golf course and Reed College, the Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden is the crown jewel of the Portland parks system. An ...

About that time, Joe Parks, a rhododendron hybridizer who always said he was “afflicted with the disease of gardening,” decided, since he was in his 90s, to give away his rhododendron garden ...

Maples, rhododendron, stewartia and fall crocus; tree bark backlit by warm, benevolent light. When last we visited the Platt Garden, my favorite of the plant meccas in this gardenesque town, even ...