Polk County Cooperative Extension’s annual plant sale is now underway, where customers can purchase a variety of fruit and veggie plants to take home and blossom in their own backyard or to gift to a ...

The two biggest benefits of pruning raspberries and blackberries are: Prevent pests and diseases Remove dead canes to optimize the plant growth and for low maintenance. Besides, this job helps ensure ...

A couple of weeks ago, the doorbell-camera app on my phone flashed an alert: There is motion at your front door. This was ...

Non-native plants are crowding out native ones in the Pacific Northwest and posing new challenges for the organizations that ...

The best way to fix this problem is for the complete eradication of invasive plants. Homeowners can start hand-pulling them, ...

At times, it seems as though Luther Burbank is still a living presence here in Sonoma County. Maybe that’s because many of ...

In 2001, Portland General Electric went through the Oregon Energy Facility Siting process to get a permit for a new power ...

While attending to your plants, it is also important not to forget about your home’s water pipes and drainage. “The best ...

TACOMA – Skye Pelliccia knows an invasive plant when she sees one ... native forest remnant is now a holly or blackberry bramble, and so now you don’t have the nice thimbleberries and ...

In the past, the team, along with a group of volunteers, has successfully salvaged two species, the lance-leaf violet and a rare species of blackberry. When Weise gets a lead about an endangered plant ...

Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domain proteins possess NADase activity and trigger plant immunity via their enzymatic products. Two recent studies have elucidated the mechanism by which TIR ...