Upcoming Events
* Please Note All Events Are Subject to Change
Special 2 Day Sale - Open Gardens & Nursery Sale
May 16th & May 17th 11am-4pm
ONE WEEKEND a year we open our wholesale nursery Rare Plant Research, to the public to tour the greenhouses and purchase plants at great prices.
We will be OPEN for tasting & bottle sales 11am-4pm. Due to the expected large attendence for this event, we ask no groups of six or more. Seating will be first-come-first-serve.
Join us Saturday May 16th & Sunday May 17th for our Annual Open Garden & Nursery Sale 11am to 4pm both days. Tour the greenhouses for those must-haves for your garden or stroll through our gardens for inspiration.
In our greenhouses you'll find rare and unusual hardy and tropical plants including caudiciforms, South African bulbs, rare bananas, succulents, cannas and a host of other hard to find plants.
This year we'll have the following vendors with us:
→ Seattle glass artist Mariusz Rynkiewicz will return to display and sell his fabulous garden glass.
→ Sean Collins of Collins Agricultural Consultants will be selling his rare houseplants that he propagates through his tissue culture lab.
→ Bryan Quintanilla will be selling his unusual handmade pottery.
→ Bert's Barbeque will be selling barbeque lunch up near the winery both days.
The event is FREE to attend and NO reservations needed either day.
One Day Open Nursery & Garden Sale
Saturday June 20th 11am-4pm
Our LAST nursery sale for the year! Join us Saturday June 20th for our Annual One Day Open Nursery Sale 11am to 4pm. Tour the greenhouses for those must-haves for your garden or stroll through our gardens for inspiration.
We will be OPEN for tasting & bottle sales 11am-4pm. Due to the expected large attendence for this event, we ask no groups of six or more. Seating will be first-come-first-serve.
In our greenhouses you'll find rare and unusual hardy and tropical plants including caudiciforms, South African bulbs, rare bananas, succulents, cannas and a host of other hard to find plants.
This event is FREE to attend and no reservations needed this day. Please check back close to the event for final details.
Summer Concerts in the Garden
Opera Picnic - "Un ballo in maschera" (A Masked Ball)
Sunday July 12th 6:30pm Start - 5:30p Gates Open
Grab your picnic basket and join us for the first Opera Picnic of 2026!
Villa Catalana and Ping & Woof Opera present their version of Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball)
Synopsis:
Un ballo in maschera is based on the real life assassination of King Gustav III (Riccardo) of Sweden in 1792. Riccardo is a ruler plagued by his conscience and dedicated to his job, but has a guilty secret: he is in love with his closest friend Renato’s wife, Amelia. What’s more, he has enemies, and there is a murderous conspiracy brewing. Through visiting the fortune-teller Ulrica in disguise, Riccardo learns that Amelia loves him too, but also that the man who next shakes his hand (who turns out to be Renato) will be his killer. He follows Amelia later that night, and both confess their love, but Renato arrives and jumps to the conclusion that his best friend and his wife have been having an affair. He vows revenge and joins the plot to assassinate the king…
Riccardo - Brennen Guillory, tenor
Amelia - Amanda Taddeo, soprano
Renato - Zach Lenox, baritone
Ulrica - Hannah Penn, mezzo-soprano
Oscar - Jocelyn Claire Thomas, soprano
Bring your own picnic and short chair or blanket and wine glass. Wine will be sold by the bottle upon arrival. Tickets are $25 per person. Gates will open at 5:30pm and the event will start at 6:30pm.
Please Note: NO food will be available for purchase.
*Please Note: Tickets are non-refundable, but are transferable in the event you cannot attend. Your PayPal receipt is your ticket and confirmation of reservation(s). An email will be sent to registered guests a few days prior to the event, with event details. Please check your spam folder if you do not received it.
Willamette Falls Symphony Picnic - Wine & Water Music
Sunday July 26th 6:30pm Start - 5:30pm Gates Open
Join us in the gardens Sunday, July 26th at 6:30pm for an evening of Wine and Water Music and other favorites for orchestra. Oregon City’s own orchestra, the Willamette Falls Symphony, will perform music by Handel, Sibelius, Bizet, Kreisler, Rossini, and Johann Strauss II, conducted by Mark Perlman.
Bring your own picnic and short chair or blanket and wine glass. Wine will be sold by the bottle upon arrival. Tickets are $25 per person. Gates will open at 5:30pm and the event will start at 6:30pm.
Please Note: NO food will be available for purchase.
Details of works to be performed:
George Frederick Handel – Selections from Water Music
Jean Sibelius – Andante Festivo for strings
Georges Bizet – Selections from Carmen
Fritz Kreisler – Liebeslied solo violin & orchestra
Johann Strauss Jr. – Wine, Women, & Song Waltz, Op. 333
Fritz Kreisler – Liebesfreud solo violin & orchestra
Giacchino Rossini – Overture to La Cenerentola (“Cinderella”)
*Please Note: Tickets are non-refundable, but are transferable in the event you cannot attend. Your PayPal receipt is your ticket and confirmation of reservation(s). An email will be sent to registered guests a few days prior to the event, with event details. Please check your spam folder if you do not received it.
Opera Picnic - "Don Giovanni"
Sunday August 30th 5:30pm Start - 4:30pm Gates Open
Grab your picnic basket and join us on an August summer evening as Ping & Woof Opera present Don Giovanni live in our gardens.
Synopsis:
Based on the story of the libertine "Don Juan", Mozart's enduring masterpiece tells the tale of Don Giovanni, a reckless philanderer who seduces women (more than 1000 according to his carefully detailed catalog) in total disregard for civil and divine authority. But in the wake of a life lived to excess, his day of reckoning finally approaches. Caught in the act of seducing the Commendatore's daughter Donna Anna, Giovanni accidentally kills the Commendatore when he comes to defend his daughter's honor. After more misdeeds and attempted seductions, Giovanni finds himself pursued by those he has wronged. Hiding in a churchyard, he unexpectedly meets the specter of the Commendatore in the form of a statue. Still unabashedly defiant, Giovanni invites the statue to supper, only to discover the irrevocable consequences for his dissolute actions as the statue exacts his revenge.
Cast:
Don Giovanni - Zach Lenox, baritone
Leporello - Stacey Murdock, baritone
Donna Anna - Kari Burgess, soprano
Don Ottavio - Brandon Michael, tenor
Donna Elvira - Jocelyn Claire Thomas, soprano
Zerlina - Katie Wingo, soprano
Masetto / Commendatore - Dan Gibbs, bass
Bring your own picnic and short chair or blanket and wine glass. Wine will be sold by the bottle upon arrival. Tickets are $25 per person. Gates will open at 4:30pm and the event will start at 5:30pm.
Please Note: NO food will be available for purchase.
*Please Note: Tickets are non-refundable, but are transferable in the event you cannot attend. Your PayPal receipt is your ticket and confirmation of reservation(s). An email will be sent to registered guests a few days prior to the event, with event details. Please check your spam folder if you do not received it.
