Portland is at peak fall color right now, and if Elk Rock Garden isn’t on your list of places to scope it out, we highly recommend making your way there! | Portland Nursery

Located just west of the Reed College campus in Portland’s Eastmoreland neighborhood, Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden is home to one of our city’s most spectacular displays of autumn foliage. While the 9.5-acre grounds remain stunning throughout the year, April and May bring a flush of rhodies and azaleas against a backdrop of streams, pools, a spring-fed lake, and large conifers. It’s a magical sanctuary—not just for plant lovers—but for wildlife as well. According to our friends from Cryst

From its initial garden planting at a home that has long since been demolished, through multiple phases of library expansion, the century-old tree remains and continues to flourish alongside Portland’s South Park Blocks. | Portland Nursery