Native plants are beautiful, low-maintenance, and easy to grow, but many homeowners aren’t familiar with them because, ...

Photo Credit: David Prasad / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 The Ceanothus genus, commonly known as California lilac, wild lilac, mountain lilac, or buck brush, includes more than 60 shrubs in the buckthorn ...

By Lisa Kilder Clackamas Soil & Water Conservation District, The Mountain Times As the soil softens with the early fall rain, it is the perfect time to pull Spurge Laurel. The control tasks you ...

In the tradition of “Death of a Salesman,” “The Assassination of Trotsky” and “Penn and Teller Get Killed,” “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” arrives with an on-the-nose title that ...

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Police in Australia are hunting for vandals who have destroyed nearly 200 trees and shrubs, including some "very rare" species. The plants were either ripped out of the ground or snapped or cut at ...

Mountain witch alder is another great choice if you're looking for shrubs for full sun locations. It's a deciduous shrub, so it loses its leaves in the winter, but not before they turn a striking red ...

There's something about hitting the trail with a mountain bike that goes beyond just the thrill of the ride. Sure, there's the adrenaline rush from navigating tight turns and rough terrain, but when ...

A Noble County judge sentenced Fred Bandy Jr., 69, on Tuesday to a life term with the possibility of parole in Laurel Jean Mitchell's August 1975 death. The Goshen man was convicted of first ...

I had a split-second flashback to years earlier, during a camping trip, when my Girl Scout leader described the sound a mountain lion makes. “It sounds exactly like a woman screaming,” she said.