Many gardeners tout the advantages of selecting native plants. These plants fit neatly into our microclimates, tend to be drought-tolerant, yet can handle our wet winters and provide food for native ...

In my last column, I divulged my passion for wild-food foraging and shared a recipe for a nettles pesto. I am continuing the theme in this editorial because the outdoors are bursting with life. And ...

Blackberries, salmonberries and thimbleberries are commonly found in Marin County. There are two blackberry species, one native and one non-native. Our native blackberry, Rubus ursinus, has three ...

You can have it all when you welcome California native plants into your home garden. Native plants encourage habitat gardening, use less water and don’t need pesticides or much fertilization. I do not ...

As I checked out the garden this morning, birds zoomed and dived with seeming joy that spring and the promise of swelling fruit buds are here. I share their joy. The Willamette Valley is perfect berry ...

Along the edges of the fields, one of our native shrubs is blooming, beautiful, with its deep pink, rose-like flowers, broad maple-shaped leaves and open, airy growth. The Purple-flowering Raspberry ...

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Nancy Turner's yard is a riot of native plants - camas and saskatoon berries, salmonberries and thimbleberries, wild gingers and rattlesnake plantain. She is a scientist and so knows these plants also ...