CORVALLIS – Snipping some cuttings from the garden this time of year will produce your own private nursery of plants by spring. Whether you plant the results of your “snip and stick” project or give ...

Planting annual flowers can be a frustrating endeavor: You spend a lot of money (either on seeds or starts) and invest all that time in planting, just to watch them die at the end of the season.

When Carol Yee, owner and operator of Carol’s Collectibles in Swanville, first discovered yak rhododendrons (Rhododendron yakushimanum) while living in Connecticut in 1996, she started pestering ...

The heritage property on Mt Taranaki's western flank is the centre of research and propagation in a conservation project led by Massey University. This project is supported by Pukeiti's owner, ...

"Rhododendrons are never any good on the flat," a friend once announced, implying that nothing less than the Himalayas, or at least a Scottish estate, was up to their scale. And it is hard to ...