SHOW DATES: AUGUST 26-28, 2026 SHOW HOURS: Wednesday: 12pm – 5pm | Thursday: 10am – 5pm | Friday: 10am – 2pm Contact: 503-682-5089
FREE inside Trade Show.
This is a joint session with ODA and ODF. The ODA's Insect Pest Prevention and Management Program will present on current research being conducted to address Oregon's emerald ash borer (EAB) infestation. [read more]
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FREE inside Trade Show
FREE inside Trade Show
FREE inside Trade Show
FREE inside Trade Show.
Unlock the full potential of your smartphone camera with this exclusive session on smartphone photography. You’ll learn how to “See” photo opportunities in the garden, how to “Do” and optimize your smartphone camera settings, how to “Take” and understand key composition technique [read more]
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Discover innovative solutions and the latest new or improved green industry products for 2025. From brand-new retail hard goods to advanced grower applications and landscape improvements, you will find hot new products to grow your green industry business. [read more]
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Learn how to overcome labor shortages, grow revenue, and optimize inventory by leveraging AI. In this session, we'll cover tactical tools and insights — relevant to all green industry owners and operators!
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Join us for an unforgettable awards ceremony as we celebrate this year’s 2025 Portland’s Best Rose and the 2024 Gold Medal Award winners! The Gold Medal Award, presented by the International Test Garden, has been honoring excellence for over 100 years, since 1919. And Portland’s Best Rose has been a local tradition for more than 25 years! Don’t miss this celebration of floral brilliance!
FREE inside Trade Show.
Discover innovative solutions and the latest new or improved green industry products for 2025. From brand-new retail hard goods to advanced grower applications and landscape improvements, you will find hot new products to grow your green industry business. [read more]
FREE inside Trade Show.
If you are even slightly confused about the many options to pay for a solar installation, Rob Aldridge will assist you in determining which incentives and financing options might make sense for you. [read more]
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Lightspeed is the POS & payments platform powering businesses at the heart of communities in over 100 countries. The partner of choice to fuel your ambitions, Lightspeed technology and insights make work flow across teams, channels and locations to help accelerate growth and provide the best customer experience. [read more]
These FREE mini-sessions are included with your trade show pass.
Propel your operation's success by taking advantage of these 30 minute mini-sessions to find the solution you are looking for. Find the topics especially relevant to you to maximize your knowledge at the show. These mini-sessions offer you a reprieve from the busy show floor. Gather quick insight about today's hottest topics.
Speaker: Nita-Jo Rountree This FREE mini-session is included with your trade show pass! Pruning Demo
Speaker: Kara Mills, Lead Horticulturist, Oregon Department of Agriculture – Nursery & Christmas Tree Programs The Oregon Dept. of Agriculture reviews laws and nursery responsibilities
Speaker: Timothy Schaal, CEO, Airtec Sprayers, Inc.
Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of spray applications in your nursery by selecting the correct sprayer for the application. Using the correct equipment to manage pests and diseases is critical to reducing waste and improving efficiency.
Speaker: Zachary Peek, Owner, Atlas Consulting LLC
Join this session to learn how Nurseries, Farms, Ranches and Rural Small Businesses are eligible to receive an award equal to 50% of the total solar system cost. Zack will describe eligibility, timing considerations, and next steps for interested organizations. Attendees will also learn how all the available incentives can be combined to bring the payback period of a solar installation to just 1 or 2 years.
Speaker: Linda Beutler, Rogerson Clematis Garden
Linda, the curator of the Rogerson Clematis Garden, North America's only accredited collection of clematis through the Plant Collections Network, will share the Clematis that attracts pollinators and which pollinators those are. Additionally, she will share her knowledge of the many native, native-vars, and non-native companion plants that enhance our clematis garden.
Speaker: Vance Almquist, Vice President of Oregon Society of Soil Scientists, Instructor at OSU
One of the primary characteristics of soil, which allows it to support such a wide variety of organisms, is its ability to store and release water. This talk will focus on unpacking the complex processes which affect soil water storage and what measures we can take to improve the water storage characteristics of soils, whether natural or man-made.
Speaker: Todd Nelson, Bountiful Farms
Join Todd Nelson, as he shares his topiary knowledge with the audience in this one-of-a-kind demo! Learn tips and tricks to the art of clipping shrubs into ornamental shapes such as boxes, spirals and spheres.
Speaker: Joe Farinacci, Director New Market Development, BFG Supply Co.
Grow Your Own!! The hottest trend in Lawn & Garden Retail. Retailers have been selling seed starting products for decades. It's time to take Indoor Gardening to the next level. We will talk about what Indoor Gardening is today, what products and brands young and old gardeners are looking for, and how to get the consumer into your store.
Speaker: Linda Beutler, Rogerson Clematis Garden
Forget everything you have ever heard about Clematis pruning. Linda, the curator of the Rogerson Clematis Garden, North America's only accredited collection of clematis through the Plant Collections Network, will share her wealth of knowledge is this fantastic pruning demo. Rather than learning the "rules", follow some common sense-based suggestions to open a world of beautiful possibilities for your garden and your clematis.
Speaker: Maryann Lewis, APA Certified Aesthetic Pruner®, Lewocks Tree Studio LLC
Let’s face it, every pruning cut has a biological AND aesthetic result. Learn tips from the aesthetic pruning approach to elevate your pruning decisions so you can develop beautiful trees and shrubs.
Speaker: Bridget Behe, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University
Bridget will present research-based information about how consumers read or ignore signage in the retail store. Signage is essential to communicate many things about the plants (and other products) people can’t know without you telling them.
Speaker: Mary Choate, Chief Operating Officer, Pest Wizard Brands LLC
Integrated Pest Management is good for the environment, but did you know it is also good for your bottom line? IPM is a great tool for improved profitability for Independent Garden Centers (IGCs) and for growers. Learn how to implement an effective IPM strategy in your greenhouse or nursery to reduce costs and decrease loss from pests. For IGC, we’ll discuss how IPM can be a key marketing strategy to improve sales through cross-marketing and upselling for your entire line, from irrigation to green goods.
Co-Presenters: Tom Springer, Chris Murphey, NurserySource
This FREE mini-session is included with your trade show pass!
NurserySource’s and RediRoot’s goal is to help nurseries and grow operations integrate new approaches to container production and gardening. Their markets span nursery, cannabis and home gardeners giving them a unique look into the ways all growers are learning from each other and improving their production. They see the pressure labor and regulatory costs have upon different operations and work to help clients mitigate those challenges. This seminar will briefly detail their observations and recommendations.
Speaker: Shahin Ashraf, Head of Sales, North America Sunterra Horticulture, Profile Products / HydraFiber
This FREE mini-session is included with your trade show pass!
The horticulture industry continues to endure raw material shortages and faces numerous logistical constraints. Profile Products has a proven solution with HydraFiber® - a domestically produced, engineered fiber substrate that is readily available and reliable as a high-performing replacement for other raw materials. Top growers across North America have already adopted HydraFiber into their mixes, and are now increasing inclusion rates to help overcome shortages of other raw goods. Learn more about this game-changing technology and how it can transform YOUR operation.
Speaker: Ahmad Dowlatabadi, PhD, Principal, Aivaka
This FREE mini-session is included with your trade show pass!
Soil moisture sensors are intended to help us conserve water, reduce plant disease, and save both our time and the environment. But do they? In this session, we will examine how sensors work, how to use them, if they are worth the effort and cost, and if they can simply be integrated into an existing irrigation setup. Join Ahmad as he presents a summary of his journey in search of the perfect sensor and lessons learned along the way.
Presented by: Serendipity Nursery
This FREE mini-session is included with your trade show pass!
The Serendipity Farms team will perform a LIVE demo of pruning and topiary techniques. Get some fun new ideas, tips, tricks, and best practices.
Speaker: Steve McCoon, Territory Manager, Nelson Irrigation Corporation
This FREE mini-session is included with your trade show pass!
Join Steve to learn about some of the latest sprinkler irrigation tools for saving water, energy, and labor in nursery irrigation. How can sprinkler selection and operation create droplets that best irrigate your crops? How does sprinkler mounting height really affect irrigation in a can yard? Discover what really affects irrigation uniformity, and how to improve yours. This session will also cover irrigation with a traveler, and ways to save labor and improve the application of that irrigation platform.
Speaker: Wei Zhang, PhD, VP of R&D, TreeDiaper
This FREE mini-session is included with your trade show pass!
Inspired by Professor Linda Chalker-Scott and Mr. Jim Uraban, two well-known professionals in the green industry, this presentation will be interactive with a live demo! We will explore why we must water our plants so often, what makes Plant Available Water different from irrigation water, and why we can’t supply plants with 1 month of water at a time. Wei will explain why roots don’t grow deep in the soil, why compacted soil is bad for your plants, and why volcano mulching is bad for your trees while piles of leaf litter in natural forests is not, and so much more!
Presented by: Bountiful Farms
This FREE mini-session is included with your trade show pass!
Join the Bountiful Farms team as they perform a LIVE demo of pruning and topiary techniques. Get some fun new ideas, tips, tricks, and best practices.
Speaker: Maryna Serdani, Product Development and Technical Service Manager PNW, Marrone Bio Innovations
This FREE mini-session is included with your trade show pass!
The use of biopesticides can form a very valuable part of an Integrated Pest Management program. However, it is critical to understand how these products are best used to optimize their efficacy as well as those of other inputs, such as classical biological control agents and conventional pesticides. In this presentation, Maryna will cover the various types of biopesticides, their art-of-use, how they fit into an IPM program and introduce some of the biopesticides from Marrone Bio Innovations that are available to growers.
A Season-long Menu for Attracting Pollinator Guests to the Garden
Speaker: Nancy Buley, Communications Director, J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co.
This FREE mini-session is included with your trade show pass!
Most pollinator research for determining the best nectar and pollen sources is focused on perennials and annuals. Garden centers can increase their tree sales throughout the year by offering a sequence of trees that bloom from early spring until fall.
Speaker: Michael Taylor, Senior Nursery Specialist, Blackmore Company
This FREE mini-session is included with your trade show pass!
Learn about the Ellepot system and discover the benefits of air pruning roots. Air pruning reduces production costs, creates more root mass, uses less media, and reduces the number of plastic pots ending up in landfills. Plus, it helps the consumer have a better gardening experience!
Speaker: Cheyenne Protz, H-2A Coordinator, Labor Consultants International
This FREE mini-session is included with your trade show pass!
At LCI, there is over 20 years of guest worker visa experience. Every day we help our clients expertly navigate the guest worker programs utilizing experience, intuition, and industry involvement. We have seen every situation, roadblock, and victory in this industry and are directly involved with every political, legislative, and industry discussion and forum for these visa programs. Let us share our knowledge with you to produce the best season possible with skilled, reliable labor.
Wednesday, August 26
Show Hours: 12–5 p.m.
Seminar Hours: 8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Thursday, August 27
Show Hours: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Seminar Hours: 8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Friday, August 28
Show Hours: 10 a.m.–2 p.m.
Seminar Hours: 8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
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The Oregon Association of Nurseries (OAN), a non-profit trade association that represents more than 700 individual nursery stock producers, retailers, landscapers and related companies serving the nursery and greenhouse industry.
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