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Garden Partners’ Program Specialist (Master Gardener and Horticultural Therapist) Kathy Kuhn and memory-care resident, Adell, are at our Memory-Care garden at Regency Assisted Living in Portland looking at the sunflowers.

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The residents love the scented flowers and continue to marvel at how quickly the vines cover the trellis.

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Garden Partners volunteer Kathy Kuhn and Regency Park Assisted Living & Memory Care resident Adell Black spend some time looking over the garden they’ve helped build.

Image: Neah Bay Douglas

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Resident Adell Black shows off her green thumb with a successful baby carrot.

Image: Neah Bay Douglas

Slide Show: Garden Partners

Posted Oct 20, 2009, 12:00pm

White patio chairs may surround Regency Park Assisted Living & Memory Care’s backyard garden, but the colorful collage of lamb’s ears, poppies, mums, rosemary, and mint isn’t just for lounging. Regency Park residents create the sensational display with the assistance of Garden Partners, a 10-year-old nonprofit dedicated to engaging elders by helping them care for plants. For an hour or two each week, residents at five Portland-area senior communities snip, clip, and water their way to ...

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