35th Annual Trillium Festival & Native and Hardy Plant Sale

The 35th Annual Trillium Lily Festival is almost here. The Friends of Tryon Creek, and its partner Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, are looking forward to celebrating spring with this fun-filled family event on April 11th & 12th.

Every spring nurseries from around the state come to Tryon Creek with a large range of native and hardy plant inventories available for purchase. This is an excellent place to pick up beautiful natives such as vine maple, red flowering current, salmonberry, Indian plum, Oregon grape, ferns, various irises, assorted wildflowers and, of course, our local Trilliums, among other things. As in year’s past, we will have a large selection of the beautiful Trillium ovatum for your backyard habitats. This early season perennial of the lily family awakens each year in Late February and early March slowly turning to a reddish-purple by the end of April or early May, making it a wonderful introduction to the spring wildflower season.

As always, the Festival will also feature guided interpretive nature hikes by Friends’ volunteers, a nature discovery open house where families can explore the natural world, native gardening and nature presentations to help festival attendees understand the value of native gardening and how best to care for native plants, local craft and garden art vendors.

Additional Parking and Shuttle available from Riverdale High School at 9727 SW Terwilliger Blvd., Portland, Oregon 97219.