美国 Connie Hansen花园保护协会 – 俄勒冈州林肯城大型杜鹃花专类园

花园与保护协会沿革

Connie Hansen Garden Conservancy（康妮·汉森花园保护协会）坐落于美国俄勒冈州沿海的 Lincoln City，由植物学爱好者 Constance P. Hansen 于 1973 年开始兴建，至 1993 年她辞世前完成 1 英亩余的家庭花园营造，1993 年辞世后由当地邻里与园艺志愿者自发组成保护协会接管维护。保护协会以非营利形式长期运营，向公众免费开放，协会宗旨是保存、修缮并延续康妮留下的园艺风格、植物选育脉络与社区共享精神。

创始人康妮·汉森的园艺人生

康妮·汉森在俄勒冈长大，后迁至加州并在加州大学伯克利分校取得植物学学位，此后多年从事植物采集与家庭园艺。1973 年退休后她回到俄勒冈，在 Lincoln City 一处湿润阴凉的沼泽地上建园，最初沿小溪北侧清理出空地，栽植日本花楸、日本红枫与亚历山德拉玉兰等乔木，逐年扩展到西南部苗床与杜鹃、山茶、报春花、鸢尾、羽扇豆等多年生草本，把近 1 英亩的院落改造成英式村舍花园。1993 年她病逝前，邻居与社区共同募集遗赠将花园从投资人手中买回，奠定了今日保护协会的运营基础。

杜鹃花专类园与植物收藏

花园是俄勒冈海岸少有的大型杜鹃花专类园，收藏常绿杜鹃、落叶杜鹃与杂交杜鹃共数百品种，从叶片细腻的矮生品种到树形高大的 Cynthia、Sir Charles Lemon、Dame Nellie Melba 都有种植，每年 4 至 5 月为主要花期，最早的 Christmas Cheer 品种甚至在节日前就能见花，最晚可延至 7 月。除杜鹃外，花园还配植大量落叶山茶、报春花属、鸢尾属与玉兰、枫树、梾木等花灌木与花乔，并通过 Spring 2023 园丁报告等持续更新花事与保育动态。

志愿者与园艺教育

保护协会由一支小规模志愿者团队长期轮值维护，2023 年春季园丁报告记录了为杜鹃更新换代所开展的「清出空间」工作，包括清除带病老株、梳理早春蓝铃花（Hyacinthoides hispanica 与 H. non-scripta）等多年生球根。协会还通过「It Started With A Seed」专栏向居民与游客分享种子采集、干燥、储藏与播种经验；每年发布的电子报与年度报告则汇总当季植物表现、新增植株与节庆活动，让远端访客也能跟进花园动态。

开放方式与地理位置

花园每日从黎明到黄昏免费向公众开放，园舍于每年 3 月 1 日至 11 月 30 日上午 10 点至下午 2 点开放，提供轮椅可达的步道与无障碍说明，地址位于美国俄勒冈州 Lincoln City，距波特兰约 2 小时车程、距塞勒姆约 1 小时车程，导航可由 US-101 西转入 33rd Street 抵达；具体电话、邮箱、街道地址与信箱按公益组织公开信息边界要求不在公开内容中列出，请有需要的访客与志愿者通过协会官方平台联系。

Garden and Conservancy Origins

The Connie Hansen Garden Conservancy is a non-profit public garden in Lincoln City on the Oregon Coast, established by plant collector Constance P. Hansen beginning in 1973 and tended by her for two decades until her death in 1993. After Connie passed away, neighbours and local horticulturists formed the Conservancy to purchase the property from the estate and continue her plantings. Today the garden is open from dawn to dusk every day of the year, free of charge, and is supported by donations and a small volunteer board.

Founder Connie Hansen

Constance P. Hansen was raised in Oregon, studied botany at the University of California, Berkeley, and spent her working years in California collecting plants and raising a family. After retiring in 1973 she returned to Oregon and bought a damp, sheltered parcel in Lincoln City that was originally developed in the 1950s by local artist and painting teacher Maud Wanker. She cleared sod along the creek, planted Styrax japonicus, Japanese maples and Magnolia ‘Alexandrina’ near the house, and gradually added iris, primula, euphorbia, ornamental grasses, dogwoods and magnolias across nearly an acre.

Rhododendron Speciality Garden

Connie was an avid collector of rhododendrons, and the garden today holds hundreds of varieties ranging from the tiniest dainty-leaved forms to tree-sized specimens such as Cynthia, Sir Charles Lemon and Dame Nellie Melba. The cool, damp coastal climate is ideal for the genus, and the bloom season stretches from the Christmas-flowering cultivar Christmas Cheer through April and May peaks and into early July. Companion plantings include azaleas, heathers, primulas, irises, magnolias, dogwoods, Japanese maples, bulbs and ground covers woven among the tidy grass paths.

Volunteers and Horticultural Education

A small group of dedicated volunteers tends the Garden year-round, with the Head Gardener’s reports documenting ongoing restoration work, such as the 2023 program of removing diseased rhododendrons and giving overlooked plants such as Hyacinthoides hispanica (Spanish bluebell) and H. non-scripta (English bluebell) more space to naturalise. The ‘It Started With A Seed’ series shares seed-saving and sowing techniques, and quarterly newsletters, plant-sale events and an annual festival photo contest connect the Conservancy with residents and visitors.

Visiting the Garden

The garden is open every day from dawn to dusk, free of charge, and the Garden House is staffed between March 1 and November 30 from 10 am to 2 pm. The site is roughly two hours from Portland and a little over an hour from Salem, accessible from US-101 by turning west onto 33rd Street; parking is limited to about 12 cars, with several wheelchair-friendly paths through the beds. Donations, plant sales and volunteer Tuesdays at 10 am sustain ongoing restoration; street address, post office box, telephone and email are intentionally omitted here and available on the official site linked below.

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