Creating Canopy
Seeking out the shade is something we’re all likely to do more of here in the Northwest as temperatures inexorably rise over the course of…
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Oregon
Tending the Urban Forest
Last year, on my way to the California Urban Forestry Conference, as I was shuttled across town to my rental car, I responded to the…
Oaks are the Answer
The Willamette Valley has a thriving export nursery industry. But most of that inventory is grown and bound for points east where cold winters and…
It’s a Tree for All
Ask any child to draw a city and common images emerge: tall buildings, roads and cars, pavement. However, throughout the West, these crayon-rendered s…
Planting in the Shadowlands
Creating a beautiful and well-designed understory can be a challenging and daunting task in the dry summer climate of the Pacific Northwest. Often, an evergreen…
Caring for the Canopy
West Coast gardeners and horticulturists are both passionate and generous. From a college course designed to engage the next generation, to an ambitious tree-planting initiative…
Leg Up To Rare Plants
A brief report from the world of science compiled by Ann Northrup
Get your Garden ON
In a creative burst of horticultural design and finesse Portland’s annual Green on Green Garden Tour is back.
Remembering Brewster Rogerson (1921-2015)
Brewster Rogerson was a renowned scholar of clematis and considered the American expert in this genus until his passing this past spring.