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If you’re like me you either forgot to look or totally disregarded the expert advice in all the garden books when it came time to plant your latest floral treasure and it wound up getting so big it blocked the sunshine your favorite peony or some other fancy plant needed to bloom. Or, it hung over the...

Oregonians love their berries… strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries, plus all those hybrids like Marionberries. Thing is, most folks are exceptionally partial to red raspberries, probably because they can be had for a good part of the year. This is due to the fact there are two types...

The holidays have arrived… already. Ugh! What’s a green shopper supposed to give in this consumption driven, throwaway crazy world. Especially when all those new electronic gadgets seem to have a built-in one month obsoletion date. And, they are fast becoming the biggest hazardous waste recycling nightmare...

Let's talk about weeds... first off, the definition I've always heard of a weed is that it is simply an unloved flower. Welllll, I have several unloved, or to be honest, actually despised by the majority of folks, flowers in my garden on purpose. Why? Because they are extremely easy to maintain...