The sale includes a wide selection of choice plants, including organically grown vegetable starts and unusual perennials. Coffee and pastries available, too! Salem’s Riverfront Pavilion and North Meadow Friday, April 20 10:am – 7:pm Saturday, April 21 10:am – 3:pm Sponsors: Salem Printing and Blueprint Elwood’s Tree Service Egan Gardens All proceeds benefit Bush’s Pasture…
Several Tuesday Gardeners visited Northwest Garden Nursery, west of Eugene, to see their beautiful display gardens and to purchase their hellebores, which are prized worldwide. We wandered the paths through woodland and rock gardens, interspersed with ornamental grasses, conifers, and flowering shrubs and trees. Among the garden beds are whimsical metal statues, stone mosaic work,…
Late winter is the time when the bugle call goes out to our Tuesday Gardeners to trim away last year’s weathered foliage to make way for the slender young shoots that emerge from the base of the plant. If one waits too long, it’s a tricky and tedious process to avoid clipping off the new…
Cornelian Cherry Dogwood (Cornus mas), a small deciduous tree native to Europe and Asia, is one of the first to bloom in January with bright yellow pom-pom flowers lasting into late February. Its clusters of olive-shaped bright red berries which appear in mid-summer are edible but bitter, and if not left for the birds, can…
The FOBG volunteers celebrated Tom Beatty’s birthday at the Conservatory with carrot cake and brownies, and a stack of birthday cards. Tom has been Bush Park’s Horticulturist for 18 years, overseeing all aspects of maintaining the park, its gardens and grounds. Seems like a good time to put a spotlight on him for his dedication…