Hilliary Montero, Director-at-Large (First Term)

Hilliary Montero is a gardener at Leach Botanical Garden. She is passionate about ornamental gardening and the Willamette Valley, and loves sharing the wonder of the outdoors with others. She worked for the Oregon Department of Human Services for over a decade specializing in program policy. In the fall of 2022 she decided to follow her passion for plants and enrolled in the horticulture program at Clackamas Community College, studying horticulture, landscape management, and arboriculture. While at CCC, Hilliary served as the President of the Horticulture Club. She is the Chair of HPSO's PlantFest committee and also serves on the Board of Directors at the Friends of the Rogerson Clematis Collection. Hilliary gardens in southeast Portland.