[1][2] She began to lose her hearing at a young age, and learned to lip read in order to understand the people around her.
[1] For more than thirty years, the couple and their three children lived in northeast Portland's Irvington neighborhood, where Berry developed an interest in plants.
[6] By the mid-1930s, Berry had run out of room for her plants in Irvington, and the couple moved to "a bowl-shaped site nestled near the top of a hill".
[1] The property, Berry Botanic Garden, just north of Lake Oswego, included a variety of habitats and terrain, and was partly covered with second-growth Douglas fir.
In 1964, the Garden Club of America awarded her the Florens DeBevoise Medal for her knowledge of plants.