The Newport Farmer’s Market is in full swing again this year. Saturdays for 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM at 101 and Angle St, right next to City hall in Newport. This is the place to find the very best local produce and fruits and bakery products. Perennials of all sorts as well as vegetable plants, [...]
One of the great pleasures of gardening in our maritime climate is the opportunity to extend the growing season into the Fall and Winter. Rarely do we experience hard freezes until late December or early January on the Oregon Coast; and even then, certain crops seem to relish the drop in temperature. Plants [...]
Darkwoods Violets (viola-orbiculata) are appearing now in shady spots along with the Western Trillium (trillium ovatum) and are about a week later in blooming. These quiet little plants grow with no attention from people other than to be admired. Showing up in early Spring, they will last until early Summer. This little beauty should not [...]
Spring on the Oregon Coast is a magical time. The storms of Winter have come and gone leaving us in wide eyed wonder as the sun appears and the urge to get out and walk around is overwhelming. Now we can do this while enjoying the occasional rain shower. On the walk we may be greeted [...]
Daylight savings time starts Sunday March 8. So it’s Spring forward at midnight one hour. Another sure sign of Spring is Pacific Tree Frog activity. We hear them singing in our gardens and hopping across the roads at night. You may wonder what’s so special about these little guys. Well, for one [...]
This is a good time to mark the location of all your flowering bulbs. They’re beautiful and fleeting. If you mark them with a little wooden marker, you won’t disturb them when you plant your beds. March is also a good time to double check shrubs, especially blueberries and cane berries to remove any dead [...]
Having just returned from a trip to snowy Vermont, I am reveling in the contrast of what my Oregon Coast garden has to offer in February. Crocus were out when I left a week ago, and now the daffodils are making an appearance. My daughter’s family has at least six weeks more of snow, rain [...]
Slimy, slimy slugs. We are fortunate to have a native banana slug that closely resembles a ripe banana — and they generally live in wooded areas away from our homes. Unfortuantely, probably the major pest in the coastal garden is an import from Europe: the Brown Slug. These voracious creatures live out of site during [...]
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