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As I write this, there’s still a week and a day before December arrives. Has this year flown by as quickly for you as it has for me? It’s the […]

There’s still a lot to see in the garden at this time of year. Many of us are a little burned out with all the gardening we’ve been doing since […]

Our Random Acts of Gardening mushroom adventure (see the November 1 post) converted seven gardeners into mushroom explorers. Steve Schmidt, Sustainable Consulting LLC, started us with a lesson in using […]

Larry Arendt, owner of Arendt’s Christmas Tree Farm, planted noble and Frasier firs a few years back as part of his retirement strategy. He decided he wanted to let the […]

Gardening —and nature—is miraculous and magical. We had our first hard frost Sunday morning turning brown leaves and blades of grass into works of art. I LOVE sparkly things (maybe […]

Photo courtesy of Karen Rake A dear friend (and Random Acts of Gardening reader) shared these thoughts and photos with me. Testimony that we shouldn’t be too quick to tidy […]

 Arctostaphylos densiflora ‘Howard McMinn’Photo courtesy of HortMag.com  “Arctostaphylos is the ultimate shrub of the west,” declared Paul Bonin, co-owner of wholesale nursery Xera Plants, at an early November […]

Ann Murphy (left), editor of RAG, and Whitney Rideout (aka Gardennia nutii) at a Farmington Gardens gardening workshop. By Gardennia nutiiI moved to Oregon 15 years ago to take a […]

A 2010 Yard, Garden & Patio visitor recently sent us a note of praise for Proven Winner’s ‘Snow Princess’™ Alyssum. Here’s what she had to say: Photo courtesy ofProven Winners […]