Plants Make Life Better

Want to improve your quality of life? Get your hands dirty and plant something. That’s right, putting trees, flowers or shrubs in the ground doesn’t just provide you with beauty and shade, it can also improve your property value, lower your energy costs, clean the air and water—even lower your heart rate.

LATEST EVENTS AND ADVICE FROM GARDENING EXPERTS

Show-stealing shrubs
These specimen-sized favorites command the spotlight

Most gardens have a diversity of plants, usually with a representation of at least one or two categories. This would ...
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May 25, 2023 / Mike Darcy

Creating a butterfly and moth garden

By Brenda Dziedzic Nature is a soothing place where one can find peace. I feel it when I’m in my ...
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May 24, 2023 / National Garden Bureau

Darcy added to OSU agricultural Diamond Pioneer Registry

Oregon-based gardening writer and broadcaster Mike Darcy, who writes regularly in the Plant Something Oregon Newsletter, has been inducted into ...
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May 24, 2023 / Curt Kipp

Drink your rhubarb

When you’re swimming in pie plant, turn those crimson red stalks into a drink called ‘shrub’ Rhubarb is an especially ...
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May 24, 2023 / Peter Szymczak

Home-grown habitats

Tips for picking pollinator-attracting plants for your garden Pollinators need our help. From birds and bees to butterflies and other ...
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May 11, 2023 / Erica Browne Grivas

What to do in the garden in May

We finally have had some decent spring weather, and things in the garden, if not heating up, are at least ...
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May 10, 2023 / Curt Kipp

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Plants Make Life Better

Plants make life better! Research has proven that plants benefit all of us in many ways — some obvious, and some not so obvious. What benefits? Check out these flyers and see.

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