‘Gathering in the Garden’ sale and soirée recurs in Eastmoreland

The Eastmoreland Garden Club hosted its third annual “Gathering in the Garden” on Saturday, May 18th, in the Eastmoreland Garden Park – on Bybee Boulevard across from the Eastmoreland Golf Course Clubhouse.

As visitors browsed among the six vendors and ten nonprofit organizations who set up in the park, they were treated to live music – the Sellwood Middle School Jazz Band, two ukulele groups, and an “Irish Session Band” – throughout the day.

“For years we had a spring plant sale; in for the last three years we’ve expanded that to be our ‘Gathering in the Garden’,” lead organizer Marti Granmo cheerfully told THE BEE that day. “Our Garden Club is again selling organic tomatoes, and ‘garden goodies’ –which are plants that our members donate. And, we have a Children’s Corner where children can pot their own little succulent plant.”

The “Gathering in the Garden” is also sponsored by the Eastmoreland Neighborhood Association, in association with Southeast Uplift neighborhood coalition. “We feel this helps bring the community together to celebrate gardening, and our green spaces!”

Next time you’re on S.E. Bybee Boulevard, passing 27th Avenue, slow down and take a look at this cute little garden park on what used to be a golf course parking lot. It’s now maintained by volunteers from the Eastmoreland Garden Club.