Portland Memory Garden

Portland Memory Garden
Part of the garden in 2020

Location	10401 Southeast Bush Street, Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Coordinates	45°29′42″N 122°33′30″W / 45.49500°N 122.55833°W / 45.49500; -122.55833

Sign for the garden, 2020

The Portland Memory Garden is a garden and park in Portland, Oregon's Lents neighborhood, in the United States.

Description

The garden, part of Ed Benedict Park, is designed for people with Alzheimer's disease and other memory issues. The project was a collaboration of the following groups: American Society of Landscape Architects, Center of Design for an Aging Society, Legacy Health Systems, Oregon-Greater Idaho Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, Portland Parks & Recreation, and Portland State University's School of Urban Studies & Planning.^[1]

History

The garden was dedicated in May 2002.^[2]

References

↑ "Portland Memory Garden". City of Portland, Oregon. Archived from the original on September 6, 2022. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
↑ Ashton, David F. "Neighbors continue to maintain 'Memory Garden'". East PDX News. Archived from the original on 2022-09-06. Retrieved 2022-09-06.

External links

Media related to Portland Memory Garden at Wikimedia Commons
Official website
About Us: What is a Memory Garden? at Center for Design

Lents, Portland, Oregon
Business	Bella's Italian Bakery Collective Oregon Eateries Eastport Plaza HK Cafe New Copper Penny Zoiglhaus Brewing Company
Geography	Beggars Tick Wildlife Refuge Bloomington Park Earl Boyles Park Ed Benedict Park Portland Memory Garden Glenwood Park Lents Park Willamette National Cemetery
Transit	Lents Town Center/Southeast Foster Road station
Category Commons

Parks in Portland, Oregon

Parks

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South	Butterfly Caruthers South Waterfront Greenway South Waterfront Willamette
Southeast	Beggars Tick Wildlife Refuge Berkeley Berrydale Bloomington Brentwood Brooklyn Cherry Clatsop Butte Clinton Colonel Summers Creston Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden Earl Boyles Ed Benedict Portland Memory Garden Errol Heights Essex Flavel Glenwood Harney Hazeltine Johnson Creek Kelly Butte Natural Area Kenilworth Kern Laurelhurst Laurelwood Leach Botanical Garden Lents Lincoln Mill Montavilla Mount Tabor Mt. Scott North Powellhurst Oaks Amusement Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge Parklane Piccolo Powell Butte Powell Raymond Sellwood Sellwood Riverfront Sewallcrest Springwater Corridor Tideman Johnson Natural Area Verdell Burdine Rutherford Westmoreland Woodstock
Southwest	Ankeny Square Council Crest Darcelle XV Plaza Director Duniway Fulton Gabriel George Himes Keller Fountain Lair Hill Lovejoy Fountain Marquam Nature Mill Ends The Oregonian Printing Press Pettygrove Pioneer Courthouse Square Plaza Blocks Portland Firefighters South Park Blocks Terry Schrunk Plaza Tryon Creek State Natural Area Washington Hoyt Arboretum International Rose Test Garden Oregon Zoo

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