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The 1928 Colonial Revival house was built for a famous mining engineer in an enclave of "Riviera" estates.

“There must be a floor plan before a house can be built, a good dress requires a pattern and a good meal means recipes and menu planning. We provide for all of these as necessities, but when it comes ...

“Occasionally, the issues were more serious, as when a nurseryman presumed to tell them how to run their business. This, they would not tolerate.” — Valencia Libby, “The Northwest Gardens of Lord &amp...

“(Boxwood), as an ornamental, has earned its position of aristocracy by a quality that practically borders immortality. I mean by this that once established, the plant will live on through many genera...

“Elizabeth gladly took up her mother’s interest in gardening, helping her with events for the Salem Floral Society (later the Salem Garden Club), founded by her mother in 1915, which was the first gar...

Kerr will work with Extension Master Gardeners, home gardeners and other partners in Wayne County and across the state.

Author and lecturer Valencia Libby will kick off the Beatrix Farrand Society’s 2022 season with a talk on Thursday, July 7, at 4 p.m. at Garland Farm in Bar Harbor.

“To love a garden is to be in love with words: With potageries and racemes, corymbs, hispids and corms. To love a garden is to be in love with possibility for it can never, almost b...

Salem is a garden paradise in spring: 13 gardens you can visit this season Today 7:30 AM Tulips bloom outside the Bush House at Bushs Pasture Park in Salem. Jamie Hale/The Oregonian Facebook Share Exploring the Salem area in spring feels a little like landing in Oz. The city comes alive with color in the springtime, as flowers pop up in public parks, formal gardens, and at nurseries and farms around the area. It’s enough to make Salem not only Oregon’s state capital, but the garden capital...