June 2022

Tsuru Soars

Northwest Koi & Goldfish Club

Koi Expo

Friends of the Gresham Japanese Garden Newsletter

Saturday, July 9th
10am - 4pm
Main City Park
GreshamGJG Values Our Partnerships

Schedule of Events:

N

10am-2pm - Exhibits
Noon-2pm - Children’s Area: Origami
and Paper Fish Ponds
2pm-4pm - Live Auction

NWKG.org

Seminars
10am- Koi Identification andAppreciation
11am- Ikebana Arrangement
Noon- The Art of Bonsai
1pm- Water Quality for Koi

HOSTED BY:
FRIENDS OF

GreshamJapanese Garden

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

GreshamJapaneseGarden.org/koi
503-502-7340

Volunteer Newsletter Editors: Sue Hughes, Mary Taylor, Mary Dickson, and Mary Marrs. Photos by Bill Peterson.

orth American Japanese Garden gardens22.dryfta.com/) conference,
Association (NAJGA) is our most we’ve been asked by Marisa to host aprominent Japanese garden
small event outside of the conference toresource center. They are dedicated togather NAJGA members from the greatsupporting and connecting Japaneseer Portland area.
gardens throughout North America.
We are thrilled to have this opportunity
Last month, Jim Card was among five
to show off the Garden to Japanese GarJapanese garden curators who particden enthusiasts all over North America.
ipated in a panel discussion organized
When asked Marisa why she picked us
by Marisa Rodriguez, NAJGA Manager,
to host this event she said, “Gresham iswhere they discussed various issues ofsuch a wonderful example of a Japanese
importance to Japanese gardens (watch garden with really strong community
here: https://youtu.be/qaIleYpPWdk).
support—where despite limited resources
In June, during the American Public
volunteers have come together in amazing
Garden Association (https://publicways to promote and sustain this Japa-

PHOTOGRAPHER’S VIEW
.五月雨つつじをもたぬ石もなし

samidare tsutsuji wo motanu
ishi mo nashi
Fifth Month rain--, not a rock,without azaleas
nese garden in their community. We are
grateful for the opportunity to showcase
the garden and bring the larger Japanesegarden community
together in such abeautiful place.”Local Artist Paints Garden History

Koi Swimming at the Garden!

by Mary Marrs

W

hat brought a self-taught
artist from Ohio all the way
to Oregon to be painting
a historical community mural? Talent,
opportunity, and perseverance.
A Gresham and Portland resident since2011, Madison Hughes is completing amural for the Gresham Japanese Garden,
which includes aspects of the community’s history, natural resources, and Tsuru
Island, the Garden’s centerpiece. Painting 24 plywood panels to be assembled
into a 50-foot by 12-foot mural, Madison
said it’s his most complex commissioned
artwork yet. And at age 28, he has alreadypainted over two dozen indoor and outdoor murals for private residences, businesses, and community organizations.
Madison credits the Portland Street Art
Alliance for facilitating his first and many
subsequent commissioned projects. The
non-profit organization provides him
access to resources and networking withother street artists.
Painting under the name “Maddo Hues”,(@achy.hands) one of his murals is in
SE Portland where the Alliance commissioned him to capture the personality and history of the area. His mural

by Mary Dickson

includes faces of familiar neighbors
and the historic trolley that used to run
along its streets.
Last year, Madison and other street
artists were chosen for the town of
Vernonia’s Mural Festival. Together, theirartwork interweaves stories of the community’s past and present. Madison’s
mural, painted on the outside of thetown’s market, honors the historic Vernonia Oregon Lumber Company railroad
and the area’s rich logging history.
When asked about his early artistic
talents, Madison said that he doodled asa child, enjoyed high school art classes,
and won a few competitions. Through“Maddo Hues” painting 1 of 24 panels.
the years, his style of drawing and painting has evolved.
work, and sometimes he needs to take a
I enjoy painting landscapes,
break from it.
“I get a lot of joy from painting,” Madison
nature, animals, and people“I enjoy painting landscapes, nature, an- says with a smile, and adds he’s motivatimals, and people,” Madison said, adding ed by others. “Seeing other people’s art
that he likes colorful, happy scenes. And inspires me to keep painting and putting
his style fits right into Gresham Japanese my art out there into the world.”
Madison also gets a lot of joy from
Garden’s vision for the outdoor mural.
But as a full-time artist, Madison knows tattooing. When he’s not painting murals, he’s inking in his SE Portland tattoo
it takes more than a recognizable style.
It takes perseverance to make it a career. parlor. (@yomaddo).
He admits that being an artist is hard

The Mural Gets Installed

Work Party - June 11thThanks to North West Painting (and the City).
The barn’s façade got painted and repaired.
Tthe mural panels are now assembled onto
the barn, so Madison can continue painting.
Another huge shout out to North West
Painting. They graciously agreed to paintthe façade for us of the decadent rock-faced
pump house that’s to the left of the barn!

Please join us for a collaborative work party
with Johnson Creek Watershed Council,
Saturday, June 11, 9am - noon, cleaning
up the creek banks around Tsuru Island tocontrol invasive plants and replace withnative to reduce stream temperatures and to
improve habitat for fish and wildlife. Sign up
here: https://www.tfaforms.com/4978047.

GARDENER’S TIP• Sow your warm weather veggies such as
tomatoes, beans, peppers, cucumbers
and squash.
• Deadhead annual flowers so they continue to bloom and use organic fertilizer orcompost on plants after blossoming (e.g.
rhododendrons and azaleas).
• Use soapy water on aphid infestations
rather than stronger pesticides.
• Mulch around plants to conserve water.
— Jim Buck, Garden Volunteer
and Organic GardenerKoi of every size and color will
grace Main City Park at the Coho
Pavilion on Saturday, July 9, from
10 am to 4 pm as the Northwest Koi andGoldfish Club (NWKGC) holds its Koi Expo.
According to Bill Layman, President of
the NWKGC, the club was founded in
1979. The majority of its 70 members
reside in the Portland/Vancouver area.,but there are members all over the US.
Check out their website at NWKG.org.
The mission of the club is to promote, create, and enlarge the hobbyof keeping, breeding, appreciating,and exhibiting koi and goldfish. (Most
members these days raise koi.) They passalong information through educationand social activities and participate incommunity events. They have monthly
meetings, conventions, and koi shows.
Many members of the koi club are very
garden oriented.
Because of Covid, this is their first event
in several years. It will be an expo, notofficially a show, which would include
judging of the fish. Usually, the show isat the end of July and held at Uwajimaya
in Beaverton. A Koi Show is similar inmany respects to a dog show! Breeders
even feed their fish color-enhancing
food, then a white enhancing food, thenthe fish fast for several days prior to theshow.
Koi keeping is very popular in Asia, Europe, and Australia (which developed its
own breeding program, since they don’t
import any fish). Many koi are imported
into the US from Japan and sold throughbrokers. Bill says it’s illegal to own andimport koi in Maine because they are
considered an invasive species.
On July 9, you can learn about these
intriguing fish by attending seminars.
Brady Layman, Bill Layman’s son, will
speak at 10 am on Koi Identification andAppreciation. At 22 years old, Brady is already an expert, according to his father.

He got his first koi when he was just four
years old.
Schedule of Events:
At this seminar, which is geared toward
10am-2pm - Exhibits
backyard enthusiasts, you will learn
Noon-2pm - Children’s Area: Origami
about quality, body confirmation, pat		 and Paper Fish Ponds
terns, and what makes one koi different
2pm-4pm - Live Auction
from another. Brady will talk about thefish’s body and skin quality. You can also
Seminars
go to the NWKGC website for some beau- 10am
- Koi Identification andAppreciation
tiful photographs that show the incredible variety: https://nwkg.org/koi-identifi- 11am
- Ikebana Arrangement
cation/.
- The Art of BonsaiNoon
During the expo, graduate students- Water Quality for Koi
1pm
from the OSU Hatfield Marine Science
Center will staff a booth and talk about
At 1 pm: Water Quality for Koi, a crutheir research on koi herpes virus, which iscial element for keeping koi happy anddeadly to the fish. Also planned is a booth
healthy, will be covered by Monty Mcstaffed by Koi Organisation International.
Quade, President of Washington Koi andWater Garden Society. Learn how
to optimize water quality for koi
by monitoring and adjusting
ph levels and biospheres using
filters.
From 2 to 4 pm, there will be a
koi auction, the main fundraiser
for the NWKGC. Members donate
koi and koi-related items, suchas pumps, nets, and filters. Also
for sale will be koi-related art andThey are living and breathing art, garden-related items, including plants.
with a different canvas every time The fish will be good quality but maybe
not show quality. The difference being
you look at them.
that show quality koi have better conAt 11 am, stroll over to Tsuru Island andfirmation and patterns. Koi will sell fromlearn about The Art of Ikebana from Nanaaround $25 to a few hundred dollars.
Bellerud, the Garden’s Ikebana instructor.
In the children’s area, from noon to 2pm
This art form, which has been practiced
at the Coho Pavilion, Eileen Holzman,
in Japan for hundreds of years can transGJG’s origami instructor, will teach howform even simple flowers you grow or
to fold fish. The NWKGC will also havebuy at the farmer’s market into a colorfulpaper fishing pond stations.
decoration for your home.
Bill Layman sums up his fascination with
At noon, you can watch Mark Vossbrink,koi by saying, “They are living and breathanother garden instructor, talk about
ing art, with a different canvas every time
The Art of Bonsai, an art form common in
you look at them.”
Japan. He will also have bonsai containers for sale.

Local Artist Paints Garden History

Koi Swimming at the Garden!

by Mary Marrs

W

hat brought a self-taught
artist from Ohio all the way
to Oregon to be painting
a historical community mural? Talent,
opportunity, and perseverance.
A Gresham and Portland resident since2011, Madison Hughes is completing amural for the Gresham Japanese Garden,
which includes aspects of the community’s history, natural resources, and Tsuru
Island, the Garden’s centerpiece. Painting 24 plywood panels to be assembled
into a 50-foot by 12-foot mural, Madison
said it’s his most complex commissioned
artwork yet. And at age 28, he has alreadypainted over two dozen indoor and outdoor murals for private residences, businesses, and community organizations.
Madison credits the Portland Street Art
Alliance for facilitating his first and many
subsequent commissioned projects. The
non-profit organization provides him
access to resources and networking withother street artists.
Painting under the name “Maddo Hues”,(@achy.hands) one of his murals is in
SE Portland where the Alliance commissioned him to capture the personality and history of the area. His mural

by Mary Dickson

includes faces of familiar neighbors
and the historic trolley that used to run
along its streets.
Last year, Madison and other street
artists were chosen for the town of
Vernonia’s Mural Festival. Together, theirartwork interweaves stories of the community’s past and present. Madison’s
mural, painted on the outside of thetown’s market, honors the historic Vernonia Oregon Lumber Company railroad
and the area’s rich logging history.
When asked about his early artistic
talents, Madison said that he doodled asa child, enjoyed high school art classes,
and won a few competitions. Through“Maddo Hues” painting 1 of 24 panels.
the years, his style of drawing and painting has evolved.
work, and sometimes he needs to take a
I enjoy painting landscapes,
break from it.
“I get a lot of joy from painting,” Madison
nature, animals, and people“I enjoy painting landscapes, nature, an- says with a smile, and adds he’s motivatimals, and people,” Madison said, adding ed by others. “Seeing other people’s art
that he likes colorful, happy scenes. And inspires me to keep painting and putting
his style fits right into Gresham Japanese my art out there into the world.”
Madison also gets a lot of joy from
Garden’s vision for the outdoor mural.
But as a full-time artist, Madison knows tattooing. When he’s not painting murals, he’s inking in his SE Portland tattoo
it takes more than a recognizable style.
It takes perseverance to make it a career. parlor. (@yomaddo).
He admits that being an artist is hard

The Mural Gets Installed

Work Party - June 11thThanks to North West Painting (and the City).
The barn’s façade got painted and repaired.
Tthe mural panels are now assembled onto
the barn, so Madison can continue painting.
Another huge shout out to North West
Painting. They graciously agreed to paintthe façade for us of the decadent rock-faced
pump house that’s to the left of the barn!

Please join us for a collaborative work party
with Johnson Creek Watershed Council,
Saturday, June 11, 9am - noon, cleaning
up the creek banks around Tsuru Island tocontrol invasive plants and replace withnative to reduce stream temperatures and to
improve habitat for fish and wildlife. Sign up
here: https://www.tfaforms.com/4978047.

GARDENER’S TIP• Sow your warm weather veggies such as
tomatoes, beans, peppers, cucumbers
and squash.
• Deadhead annual flowers so they continue to bloom and use organic fertilizer orcompost on plants after blossoming (e.g.
rhododendrons and azaleas).
• Use soapy water on aphid infestations
rather than stronger pesticides.
• Mulch around plants to conserve water.
— Jim Buck, Garden Volunteer
and Organic GardenerKoi of every size and color will
grace Main City Park at the Coho
Pavilion on Saturday, July 9, from
10 am to 4 pm as the Northwest Koi andGoldfish Club (NWKGC) holds its Koi Expo.
According to Bill Layman, President of
the NWKGC, the club was founded in
1979. The majority of its 70 members
reside in the Portland/Vancouver area.,but there are members all over the US.
Check out their website at NWKG.org.
The mission of the club is to promote, create, and enlarge the hobbyof keeping, breeding, appreciating,and exhibiting koi and goldfish. (Most
members these days raise koi.) They passalong information through educationand social activities and participate incommunity events. They have monthly
meetings, conventions, and koi shows.
Many members of the koi club are very
garden oriented.
Because of Covid, this is their first event
in several years. It will be an expo, notofficially a show, which would include
judging of the fish. Usually, the show isat the end of July and held at Uwajimaya
in Beaverton. A Koi Show is similar inmany respects to a dog show! Breeders
even feed their fish color-enhancing
food, then a white enhancing food, thenthe fish fast for several days prior to theshow.
Koi keeping is very popular in Asia, Europe, and Australia (which developed its
own breeding program, since they don’t
import any fish). Many koi are imported
into the US from Japan and sold throughbrokers. Bill says it’s illegal to own andimport koi in Maine because they are
considered an invasive species.
On July 9, you can learn about these
intriguing fish by attending seminars.
Brady Layman, Bill Layman’s son, will
speak at 10 am on Koi Identification andAppreciation. At 22 years old, Brady is already an expert, according to his father.

He got his first koi when he was just four
years old.
Schedule of Events:
At this seminar, which is geared toward
10am-2pm - Exhibits
backyard enthusiasts, you will learn
Noon-2pm - Children’s Area: Origami
about quality, body confirmation, pat		 and Paper Fish Ponds
terns, and what makes one koi different
2pm-4pm - Live Auction
from another. Brady will talk about thefish’s body and skin quality. You can also
Seminars
go to the NWKGC website for some beau- 10am
- Koi Identification andAppreciation
tiful photographs that show the incredible variety: https://nwkg.org/koi-identifi- 11am
- Ikebana Arrangement
cation/.
- The Art of BonsaiNoon
During the expo, graduate students- Water Quality for Koi
1pm
from the OSU Hatfield Marine Science
Center will staff a booth and talk about
At 1 pm: Water Quality for Koi, a crutheir research on koi herpes virus, which iscial element for keeping koi happy anddeadly to the fish. Also planned is a booth
healthy, will be covered by Monty Mcstaffed by Koi Organisation International.
Quade, President of Washington Koi andWater Garden Society. Learn how
to optimize water quality for koi
by monitoring and adjusting
ph levels and biospheres using
filters.
From 2 to 4 pm, there will be a
koi auction, the main fundraiser
for the NWKGC. Members donate
koi and koi-related items, suchas pumps, nets, and filters. Also
for sale will be koi-related art andThey are living and breathing art, garden-related items, including plants.
with a different canvas every time The fish will be good quality but maybe
not show quality. The difference being
you look at them.
that show quality koi have better conAt 11 am, stroll over to Tsuru Island andfirmation and patterns. Koi will sell fromlearn about The Art of Ikebana from Nanaaround $25 to a few hundred dollars.
Bellerud, the Garden’s Ikebana instructor.
In the children’s area, from noon to 2pm
This art form, which has been practiced
at the Coho Pavilion, Eileen Holzman,
in Japan for hundreds of years can transGJG’s origami instructor, will teach howform even simple flowers you grow or
to fold fish. The NWKGC will also havebuy at the farmer’s market into a colorfulpaper fishing pond stations.
decoration for your home.
Bill Layman sums up his fascination with
At noon, you can watch Mark Vossbrink,koi by saying, “They are living and breathanother garden instructor, talk about
ing art, with a different canvas every time
The Art of Bonsai, an art form common in
you look at them.”
Japan. He will also have bonsai containers for sale.

June 2022

Tsuru Soars

Northwest Koi & Goldfish Club

Koi Expo

Friends of the Gresham Japanese Garden Newsletter

Saturday, July 9th
10am - 4pm
Main City Park
GreshamGJG Values Our Partnerships

Schedule of Events:

N

10am-2pm - Exhibits
Noon-2pm - Children’s Area: Origami
		 and Paper Fish Ponds
2pm-4pm - Live Auction

NWKG.org

Seminars
10am- Koi Identification and		 Appreciation
11am- Ikebana Arrangement
Noon- The Art of Bonsai
1pm- Water Quality for Koi

HOSTED BY:
FRIENDS OF

GreshamJapanese Garden

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
GreshamJapaneseGarden.org/koi
503-502-7340

Volunteer Newsletter Editors: Sue Hughes, Mary Taylor, Mary Dickson, and Mary Marrs. Photos by Bill Peterson.

orth American Japanese Garden gardens22.dryfta.com/) conference,
Association (NAJGA) is our most we’ve been asked by Marisa to host aprominent Japanese garden
small event outside of the conference toresource center. They are dedicated togather NAJGA members from the greatsupporting and connecting Japaneseer Portland area.
gardens throughout North America.
We are thrilled to have this opportunity
Last month, Jim Card was among five
to show off the Garden to Japanese GarJapanese garden curators who particden enthusiasts all over North America.
ipated in a panel discussion organized
When asked Marisa why she picked us
by Marisa Rodriguez, NAJGA Manager,
to host this event she said, “Gresham iswhere they discussed various issues ofsuch a wonderful example of a Japanese
importance to Japanese gardens (watch garden with really strong community
here: https://youtu.be/qaIleYpPWdk).
support—where despite limited resources
In June, during the American Public
volunteers have come together in amazing
Garden Association (https://publicways to promote and sustain this Japa-

PHOTOGRAPHER’S VIEW
.五月雨つつじをもたぬ石もなし

samidare tsutsuji wo motanu
ishi mo nashi
Fifth Month rain--, not a rock,without azaleas
nese garden in their community. We are
grateful for the opportunity to showcase
the garden and bring the larger Japanesegarden community
together in such abeautiful place.”