APLD Oregon Landscape Industry Happy Hour: Building Inspiration

APLD Oregon invites you to our Third Annual Landscape Industry Happy Hour — a relaxed and welcoming afternoon to reconnect with colleagues, meet new friends, and get inspired for the year ahead. All landscape industry professionals are welcome.

Enjoy complimentary food and non-alcoholic beverages. Alcoholic drinks are available just steps away at the adjacent Show Bar next to our meeting space, the Astoria Room, located inside Revolution Hall. Come hungry, thirsty, and ready to mingle!

Featured Presentation & Breakout Session

We are pleased to feature a presentation by Marion McNew, CPLD, FAPLD

The Art of Garden Making: Finding and Sustaining Design Inspiration

With over 40 years of professional design/build practice, Marion McNew, owner and principal designer of Mount Hood Gardens, will share how she finds and sustains creative inspiration—drawing from gardens, conferences, and travels throughout the U.S., Europe, and Japan. Her talk will offer practical insights and tools designers can use when creativity needs a spark.

Following the presentation, attendees will break into small groups to exchange ideas and explore practical strategies for turning inspiration into reality across designer, contractor, and client partnerships.

1 CEU (APLD) and 1 CEH (OLCA) pending approval.

Registrations close on January 31st and can't be refunded past that date due to catering. Thank you!

Info: How to find and maintain design inspiration and motivation? Where does inspiration come from? Translate inspiration into buildable, stunning and profitable landscapes.

How do you stay creatively motivated throughout the year? What do you do when inspiration does not strike?

Sources for inspiration may encompass design conferences, workshops, lectures and webinars, garden tours and trade shows, exchanges with designer colleagues, traveling, books and garden magazines, Instagram, Houzz or Pinterest, ChatGPT, Designer blogs and APLD national and chapter newsletters. And your own photo library!

The goal for today’s presentation is to provide you with tools so creativity shows up when you need it.

Info: We'll be raffling off a one-year APLD membership, garden tools, and plants. Your entry gets you a raffle ticket.

Info: Our members will briefly share about the benefits of being an APLD member, introduce our upcoming events for 2026, and honor some of the recent achievements of our membership.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Show Bar, 1300 Southeast Stark Street, Portland, United States

Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.

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