Yard, Garden and Patio Show

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Originally uploaded by World Forest Institute.

The 2006 YPG Show was held at the Portland Convention center http://www.ygpshow.com/. The three day event featured more than 275 unique exhibitors, from nurseries, garden centers and specialty merchants to landscape designers and craftsmen. Sponsored by the Oregon Association of Nurserymen, the show reminds us that the nursery industry is the largest agriculture sector in Oregon, employing more than 21,000 people with an annual payroll that exceeds $275 million. Oregon's wholesale nursery industry recorded $844 million in gross sales of nursery and greenhouse products in 2004, up from $779 million in 2003.Roughly three-fourths of the nursery stock grown in Oregon is exported to other states or countries, making Oregon the nation's largest exporter of nursery stock. And the state's nurseries, as well as all Oregonians, can take great pride in knowing that Oregon is No. 1 in the United States in the production of shade trees, Japanese maples and most other kinds of maples, arborvitae, rhododendron and coniferous evergreens. Oregon also is a leader, ranking second or third nationally, in the production of deciduous flowering trees, azaleas and other broadleaf evergreens. Click on the orchids to see more photos from the show.