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Beautiful white blooms on native oakleaf hydrangea. During midsummer, the showy pink and blue pom-poms of bigleaf (or mophead) hydrangeas try to overshadow their equally beautiful and even more versatile cousin, the oakleaf hydrangea. Native to the southeastern U.S., oakleaf hydrangeas offer year-round beauty with their seasons of blooms, foliage, and peeling bark. Not only are oakleaf hydrangea gorgeous, they’re low-maintenance and easy to grow. Here’s what you need to know about growing n...

While the arrival of new vaccines for COVID-19 should enable a return to in-person events, the sheer mechanics of their mass distribution mean that early 2021 events are still primarily virtual. That’s certainly true for the Fourth Annual MonDak Agricultural Research Summit, typically held late in the year, but now moved online and converted to a webinar series, beginning Thursday, Jan. 14. Webinars will be held on Zoom every other Thursday, with one Tuesday thrown in, and all will run fro...

♪ bill: we are hearing for some there could be an issue with your christmas tree this year. that has many farmers looking overseas. the issue is root rot, threatening traditional fir trees in america. root rot is a water mold, once in the soil makes it unfit for production. one study estimating the potential loss in the state of oregon alone could be $300 million. that has growers nationwide experimenting with the fir tree from the country of turkey. martha: investigators from the national tra...