The newest edition of the popular Retail Nurseries and Garden Centers Road Map is out, and available for people to order for FREE online. They can order their copy by logging on to plantsomethingoregon.com/order-the-road-map.
The folding highway map, just like the kind service stations used to give away, includes 133 retail garden centers and specialty nurseries across Oregon and Southwest. It also lists 22 retail nurseries selling by mail order or online, 43 firms offering various types of landscaping services, and 41 beautiful and unique public gardens that are waiting to be explored. With the exception of the public gardens, only Oregon Association of Nurseries (OAN) members are featured.
OAN has printed 35,000 copies of this edition of the map, which is now updated every two years. It’s promoted under their Plant Something Oregon consumer gardening program, which provides localized, expert advice and information to gardeners. There’s a website at www.plantsomethingoregon.com with blog posts, a searchable directory of OAN-member retailers, a list of the scientifically-proven benefits of gardening and plants, and much more. There’s an email newsletter too, published 18 times a year, which people can get by signing up on the site.
“This is all part of our effort to promote our retail members and gardening in general,” said Curt Kipp, OAN Director of Publications and Communications. “People aren’t just receptive, but delighted when they discover we have a map like this, full of places to explore.” The map is distributed at gardening events and through the businesses and gardens listed, plus local chambers of commerce and visitor centers throughout the state. The OAN also reaches out to garden clubs and extension groups to distribute the map. Those groups can request a bundle of maps by writing to plantsomethingoregon@oan.org and specifying where to send them and how many they want.