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Vermicompost is the product or process of composting using various worms, usually red wigglers, white worms, and other earthworms to create a heterogeneous mixture of decomposing vegetable or food waste, bedding materials, and vermicast. If your interested in starting your own vermicompost, I have found many ads on Bends craigslist advertising the sale of red wigglers.
Red Twig Dogwood This is another, easy to maintain and fast growing popular shrub in central Oregon. In Spring, it puts out attractive white flowers. Summer, it fills out into a well shaped shrub with beautiful green leaves. Fall starts warming up with red fall foliage. Come winter, the leaves drop, exposing this amazing bright, red bark.
Xeriscape If you are like everyone else and have noticed your water bill is climbing every year, you should consider xeriscaping. Xeriscaping is defined as “quality landscaping that conserves water and protects the environment”.
Among the easiest flowering shrubs to grow in central oregon, spireas are often used in foundation plantings, as hedges, and in perennial gardens. Most spireas bloom in late spring to midsummer. Flower colors include pink, red, yellow, and white, depending on the variety. Some types have colorful fall foliage. Size depends on the species and…
One of the first trees to break bud in late winter or early spring, learning how to grow pussy willows provides the garden with unique interest from the furry catkins, which are soon followed by whitish, yellow flowers, when much of the landscape still sleeps in dormancy. The pussy willow is one of my top choices…
Juniper is an evergreen tree that is similar to a pine tree in many ways. Junipers are native to many parts of the world, including North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Junipers have been used in many parts of the world for hundreds of years. Junipers are drought-tolerant and good in areas where water…
A superb native rose, Rosa woodsii (woods rose) has rose-pink flowers in early June. The bright red hips persist throughout winter, and are used as food by birds. A fast grower, the Wood’s Rose quickly reaches 4.’ This rose will survive in the harsh conditions from the Rocky Mountains through the Cascades, USDA zones 4-6. It…