The Oregon Garden - Silverton, Oregon -Botanical Garden, Hotel

Forty miles southwest of Portland is an eighty-acre botanical showplace called The Oregon Garden. Located in the historic hamlet of Silverton, The Oregon Garden is comprised of more than twenty specialty gardens and features. There are waterfalls, fountains, many tree species including a four hundred year old Oak, and more flowers than you can catalogue.

Gardens within gardens, one of the more developed areas includes Sensory Garden. The restorative features of this area include scents and textures meant to exercise the imagination. Including an in-ground compass, a wood trellis of Port Orford cedar, vertical wall gardens and a twenty foot long rain curtain, this special garden surrounds you with nature

Take I-I5 to Silverton, Oregon. The Oregon Garden is just forty minutes south of Portland and fifteen minutes from Salem. The physical address is 879 W Main St, Silverton, Oregon.

The Oregon Garden is open from May to September, from 10:00am to 6:00pm and from October to April from ten in the morning to four in the afternoon. From April to October there is a motorized tram, designed to assist passengers with limited mobility this tram provides visitors with an excellent overview of The Garden's many features. There is an admission fee based on the time of year and the age of the ticket purchaser. You can also become a sponsoring member of The Oregon Garden. This membership will provide special privileges and free admission.

Just a few of the gardens you'll find here are:

The A-Mazing Water Garden is an award-winning garden with a circular water garden, an ornate bridge, and a rushing waterfall. This garden is a shining example of how public gardens can serve several functions.

Discover dinosaur bones in the 'Dinosaur Dig', pretend you live in the new tree house in the jungle, make believe you've been transported to a real Hobbit House. Then sit back and watch the furniture garden grow in the Children's Garden.

A series of small gardens designed to inspire gardeners with ideas they can take home, The Home Demonstration Garden is sponsored, designed and maintained by a selection nursery or landscape firm. Each garden demonstrates an element of garden design on a home garden scale.

In the Market Garden fruit, berries and assorted agricultural products that normally grow in the Willamette Valley are raised. Then the produce is given away to needy families. In 2008, more than seven thousand pounds of fruit and vegetables was harvested from the Market Garden.

Bring your dog to the Pet Friendly Garden and let him inspect all the plants. The Oregon Garden wants to educate visitors as to which plants are friendly and which ones are toxic to our pets

Owned by the Moonstone Hotels Properties, The Oregon Garden is part of a family of boutique garden-themed inns located in some of the West Coast's most treasured destinations. This unique property and its remarkable gardens are worth looking over. The Oregon Garden has something for everyone, whether child, pet or physically challenged, everyone's needs have been taken into account somewhere on the eighty-acre botanical garden.