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When botanist John Bartram first identified a hydrangea native to the U.S. in the 1730s, little did he know it would become a mainstay of the garden with its iconic […]

Holding onto poinsettias after the holidays is good for the pocketbook but hard on the ego when you can’t get them to color up the next year. To get you […]

Join the Home Orchard Society for our 2018 All About Fruit Show! Saturday October 20th & Sunday October 21st , 10am – 4pm Clackamas County Fairgrounds – 694 NE 4th […]

Anticipation of ripe pears and apples peaks in fall as fruits hang heavily from branches and begin their gravity-aided trip to the ground.   But how do you know when […]

For most gardeners it’s been a normal or above-average year for the country’s most popular vegetable. “It was a fairly decent season for tomatoes,” said Brooke Edmunds, horticulturist with Oregon […]

Conifers in Oregon are getting hit hard by several years of drought, to the point that many are dying. “Beginning in 2013-14, we started to see significant impact on Doug-firs […]

Clackamas County Master Gardeners™ invite you to a morning of stimulating gardening classes and demonstrations at their annual Fall into Gardening event. The event will take place on Saturday, October […]

September 22 & 23 | 10am-5pm Presented by Oregon State Federation of Garden Clubs Learn more about plants that grow in our region, beautification projects throughout the state and get […]

If you treat them right, microscopic critters in soil will do your bidding and turn garden and kitchen debris into black gold for the garden.   “There are more microorganisms […]

Lawns languish in the heat of summer unless showered with the water they require to thrive. But not to worry, the grass isn’t dead.   Come fall when the rains […]