ILLAHEE, Wash. – The reign of a contender for the title of oldest Pacific yew tree in the United States has come to an end. The yew's gnarled, bubbly bark and green limbs – celebrated for decades with ...

Andrea Stierle was just another postdoctoral fellow whose funding was about to run out at Montana State University, but she was a gambler, too. In the mid-1980s she had stumbled across a fungus that ...

OK, I know this plant doesn’t bloom. It is selected for this column because it is a native plant that few people are familiar with, or they don’t know it grows in the Blue Mountains. There aren’t many ...

A team of gardeners prepare the world's oldest topiary garden, at Levens Hall, in 2023. The garden, comprising of ancient box and yew trees, was established in 1694. (Credit: OLI SCARFF) The ...

We’ve passed the winter solstice and that means we’re on the way to spring and the gardening season. If you’ve got questions, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon ...